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the whole enchilada
We enjoy making the the food at the DG. And we now have a range of meals that work so well that we’ve had to fire the dishwasher! (no, that’s not a non-sequitur. Clean plates you see? – no need for a dishwasher? Oh I give up) So, here is a quick rundown of all…
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Half pint?
Quicker than a flash, faster than a rocket. with more punch than a teenage party when the parents are away. This tiny but mighty little half pint (actually half a litre, but where’s the meter in metric?) can brew up a cuppa in – well – a storm! Just a few dry twigs… a couple…
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Dinner on the Deck
So the bread you made is really not cutting the mustard (hmm), the ocado van (yes they do deliver along with all the others. I can see them now a long line of multi-coloured vans lined up in the lane with helpful drivers running plastic crates back and forward – now that’s what I call…
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Best Beef Ever
My Mum always said “If you can find your way through the kitchen when you’re cooking steak, the pan’s not hot enough! Well, that was then and this is now. The result is still the same – if you can find your way through our kitchen when we’re cooking steak, the pan is still not…
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Mango Tango
A generous wadge of chopped garlic, squish of lime, a bundle of chilli, chuck in a handful of seafood and there you have it – well almost! Don’t forget the glass of Domignon Blanc. Mango tango our favourite summer dish – well apart from that lovely thing we do with scallops when we can get…
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One Egg’s Un Oeuf
Hugh Fernley Witenthtall (who we love to take the mickey out of) says never name your hens. So we haven’t. Well apart from Addy, Sleepie, Chubby, and Eva. And Coco. Oh and Curious George. Well, whatever they’re called they lay lovely eggs and loads of them. Our original 6 hens have been known to lay…
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The Humble Poacher
Poached eggs; Not easy to do well. All too easy to do too well. Resulting in a rubbery white coat over an unyielding block of solid yolk. And so often lumped onto a soggy wet bed of sliced white bread or worse muffins! But not here. Oh No. The Crusty Loaf bakery provides the perfect…
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Les Oeufs a La Cupole
Domed Eggs “J’adour les Oeufs a La Cupole” cries the sexy movie starlet. “We’re domed, Captain Mainwairing, we’re domed.” cried Corporal Jones. But for the lack of an extra O this simple but exquisite dish could have made it to the big time. A celebrity egstravaganza, a leggend in its own lunchtime. This is our…
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Who’s eaten all the pies?
‘Local Provenance!’ That’s what it’s all about – or so they say. ‘They’ being the TV gurus we all love to hate. YES CHEF! If you’ve collected the logs, lit the fire and rolled out the pasta you’ve woven yourself, you can have a great big, organic, pat on the back. But don’t go spoiling it…
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Rocket powered
Don’t get me going!! Every week people tell us we’re mad. Half of them because they don’t believe you can cook on a rocket stove and the other half who can’t believe we don’t do it all the time! Either way, we just finished dinner tonight – garlic mushrooms, gorgeous local steak, fried onions and…
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Dome Baked
You only get really good pizzas from really hot ovens – far hotter than your average oven – and that only happens in a woodfired oven. Of course, being the Dome Garden, our oven is shaped like a – err – cube. Just kidding, it’s a dome. PIZZA NIGHTS are a lively, social free-for-all that…
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Campfire cookery
If talk of Rocket stoves and Chimineas is all Double Dutch ovens to you then take heart. This is the lingua franca of the campfire cooks and given a little practice you’ll be speaking it fluently – boiling, baking and burying to your stomach’s content. Either that or you’ll go home several pounds lighter. So,…
