A whole weekend of food
Started the weekend on Friday evening with steamed spicy chicken parcels with sweet chilli sauce and soy sauce
Followed by a chocolate and apricot tart
Close up of the pastry
French toast for Saturday breakfast
A mid-morning snack of chilli-fried prawns
Pasta making for lunch
More pasta making
Starting the ragu bolognese
More ragu making - an alaborate affair with beef, pancetta, chicken livers, carrots, celery, onion, nutmeg, wine and stock.
Letting it reduce
Rolling the pasta
Building the dish
A sort of deconstructed lasagne - with a fresh tomato sauce to garnish. It was a lot of work, but tasted amazing
Dinner was an old favourite - peppered steak with dauphinoise potatoes and broccoli
For the first time I tried circles of dauphinoise - surprisingly easy to do, and somehow seems to taste even better.
posted by Andy at 10:18 PM
7 Comments:
wow that pasta looks amazing, someone really talented must have made it...
i have to agree with anon - even though i made it!
all food photography looks fab, pity we didn't get a photo of american pancakes - ps, i used leftover batter this afternoon and made choc chip ones, not as good as blueberries!
I really liked the look of the parcels- were the filling or would you have it more as a light snack? The beautifully shaped potatoes looked great too. Looks like an amazing weekend of food!
The Pasta dish in particular looks really good.
You never have chops very often on your blog - any reason?
Not a huge fan of chops - always seem a lot of smoke and smell in the house and then a bit dry when you're done.
As for the parcels, I think they'd make a great snack for 4 if they were a bit smaller.
where did you get the pasta machine from, and how much does it cost?
Pasta maker was at Anglecroft - i'm guessing you can get one for about £20.
Good fun, and easy to use once you've made the pasta.
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