So a few o. Here like to coom or like good food. So what would be your speciality dish, If you had to cook one meal to impress what would that be ? Enjoy...
Greek-style barbequed butterflied leg of lamb usually goes down well. It's an impressively sized piece of meat (fnarr fnarr) for the barbeque, it smells divine while cooking and it's fairly easy to do so that you get a variety of cookedness (if that's a word) to suit all tastes. Very popular in the Burgundian summer.
I'm no mean chef by any example but I do love to cook. I can do a mean Sunday roast and shepheards pie but to impress based on my abilities, I'd do a lasagne (all from scratch) with either home made chocolate fudge cake or ginger cake for desert. Don't do starters.
Not a signature dish exactly but I made a cracking curry last week when we had people for dinner. It was a Lamb and Spinch Karahi recipe Mumraz Khan from the Karachi in Bradford shared with Rick Stein. The video and recipe are below although I cooked it slowly in a slow cooker after the initial blending etc. Tastes like a top restaurant curry and its pretty easy to make ( although you need a blender.) [video=youtube;blPho3ThwwQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blPho3ThwwQ[/video] Recipe here. http://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/rick-stein-mumrez-khan-karachi-lamb-spinach-karahi/ Tasted even better the next day! I reckon its on a par with the Lamb and Spinach balti they do at Ackbars which is my favourite curry.
Seared duck breast with Yorkshire Blue cheese mash always goes down well. I'd definitely recommend this though, lemon pepper shrimp linguine http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/40154/shrimp-lemon-pepper-linguini/
Depends whether it's Indian Onion Bhaji followed by Lamb Balti with three colour rice or English Tarragon Chicken in a creamy white wine sauce followed by Black Forest Trifle
Thick piece of cod steak(2 inch is ideal) with skin on . Fry skin side down in olive oil n butter till crispy. Turn over and cook in a very hot oven for 15 ish minutes. Take the cod out of the pan and reduce down the juices and pour over the cod. Serve with chips Looks a bit like that......only wi chips
Paprika chicken, beef casserole in red wine sauce, paella, shepherds pie and chicken tikka masala were the dishes my kids loved me to make the most so I suppose these are probably my signature dishes.
For my tea this evening I've had a pork pie, a cherry bakewell slice and a hamlet. All out of plastic wrappers from a Jet garage.
