Looking forward to cooking normally again…

Has to be said, while I’m excited at the opportunity to make an arse of myself on national TV, I am looking forward to getting back to cooking proper dishes again – added to by the fact that we’re currently trying to run the freezer down in prep for the house move…

The Gnocchi marathon went quite well today – finally got to a stable and repeatable gnocchi, though i had to bite the bullet and stick egg in it.  I’m still not 100% confident that I’ll be able to pull it off, but I think once the sauce is on it, it should be fine… fingers crossed.

I also established the reason for my bread results being a little mixed… my scales have a margin of error of around 100g depending on how hard i put the dish down on top!  Even more irritatingly, I purchased replacement scales which then buggered up as soon as i got ‘em home. I do love Kitchens up on Whiteladies, but two trips in two days is a little annoying.  On the other hand the ricer i bought in there worked a treat.  I had to resist buying extras in there though – always a problem…

Barbeque tonight – doing a pretty traditional one tonight, sausages, burgers, pork chops… i have on made the burger baps however, courtesy of the great Richard Bertinet’s Dough book, with a couple of tweaks – i’ve added some ras el hanout to the dough mix to give it a lovely fragrant flavour, and drizzled some great lemon olive oil on top.  Trina’s folks brought it back from their Peninsular travels in the spring and it tastes amazing – really light olive oil with a lovely citrus overtone.

Will be doing a review of my favourite local curry place tomorrow or Sunday, though I’m also tied up with rehearsals most of the weekend.  So, catch y’all on the flipside…. Enjoy the sun ;-)