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Osso bucco milanese

Thanks Simon!

Woolworths Apple & cinnamon tea cake

Ingredients

125g butter, softened

2/3 cup caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 eggs

1 1/3 cup self-raising flour

2 tbs custard powder

1/3 cup milk

4-5 granny smith apples, sliced finely 

2 tsp melted butter

2 tsp caster sugar, extra

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Grease and line a deep 20cm springform round cake tin.

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla with electric beaters until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift flour and custard powder together and fold into butter mixture in batches alternately with milk.

Spread half of the mixture into prepared tin. Arrange half of the apple slices over batter. Cover with remaining cake mixture. Decorate top with remaining apple slices. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with combined sugar and cinnamon

Bake for 50 mins or until skewer comes out clean when tested. Cool in tin for 10 mins before turning out.

Osso bucco

melanzana salata from meltemi, rodos

Meltemi on the beach in Rhodes makes the most beautiful melanzana salad (remember they call dips salad so it's really a dip).
It's cooked eggplant (I think they cook them in the oven like you do with a babaganoush) and then roughly broken up into chunks and they serve it drizzled with olive oil and parsley, pine nuts and red onion sliced thinly. It's delicious.

Cretan food

Boureki - like a moussaka but with zucchini and potato.  Pastry on top.  Delicious.

Mum's favourite - Cretan salad.  With dakos (softened bread with pureed tomatoes) and mizithra (a creamy mild cheese, generously served)

The language school gang

YUM - cheese filled pastry rolled in honey for dessert.  Cretans ALWAYS give you raki and glyka (sweets) complimentary after every meal.

Fishies

μελιτζάνα IMAM

Serves 8-10


6 diced tomatoes
7 pulsed tomatoes
3-4 red onions chopped into wedges (may be too much. Depends on your taste)
1 head garlic, sliced
400g tub feta
10 Eggplants cut in half horizontally

Bunch parsley, rip ends off. Leave some small stalks on. Chop up into small pieces.

Stage 1: Slice eggplants in half horizontally.  Drizzle with olive oil and salt and put in an oven at 200C until soft not black.

Stage 2: Fry onions in a saucepan with lots of oil on a gentle heat.

Stage 3: Add garlic.  Add salt and pepper.


Stage 4: Add pulsed tomatoes when onions are a little soft (not brown).

Stage 5: After ten mins add the chopped tomatoes.

Stage 6: Put lid on and keep letting tomato mixture boil. Add a good amount of dried oregano.

Stage 7: Add parsley.

Step 8: Take off the heat. Leave to cool a bit.  Crumble a 400g tub feta and stir in. *It is important to let the mixture cool before adding the feta so it doesn't just melt - you want it to remain whole.

Step 9: When eggplants are soft take out of the oven. Not black. Squash the flesh down in them with a fork.

Step 10: Spoon tomato mixture into the eggplants.

Step 11: Put back in the oven for about 10 minutes.

Step 12: Serve with some crusty bread and a simple salad.

Any leftover mix? Stir it with egg to make a yummy scram/omelette.

Ottolenghi Oats

Foxcroft

These cinnamon scrolls are to die for. Served warm with apple inside mmmm.

Lovely coffees on berwick St

Foxcroft & Ginger,Soho

Cinnamon French toast at ottolenghi

Creepy...

Looks like a science project. China town.

Bartersea pie shop, Covent garden

Delicious pies! But you have to eat with k&f they fall apart. Steak and Guinness!!!

me on the set of market kitchen

Such a funny day!

Met the guys from this blog - sorted - it's actually a great idea, really awesome format and it looks like fun: www.sortedfood.com

Edith's Aubergine Parmigiana

From Market Kitchen today radio one presenter Edith was on.  She made a really nice chicken kebab - chicken chunks marinated with yoghurt and spices, alternated with onion and cherry toms on the skewer, then grilled on a griddle pan.

Aubergine parmigiana
Slice aubergines lengthways
Roll in flour and then egg
Fry in oil

Sauce
Slice 2 cloves garlic finely
Bunch of parsley - break the stalks off and chop finely
Fry garlic, then add parsley, then add a couple of cups passata
Can add chilli also

Layer tomato sauce, then aubergine, then fontina cheese.  Keep layering, spinning aubergine so you get more in.  End with parmesan and fontina.

Put in oven.

Deutsche essen und trinken

               Düsseldorf's Killepitsch

Mandatory late night wurst

Ilse's pork stroganoff, heavy on the senf

Ilse is the most fantastic cook!!! And she loves it so much

Apfel strudel - mum you would have loved it!

Berliners!

Ich Liebe Frühstück

Monmouth Original Store, Covent Garden

Monmouth is the coffee that has taken over London.  They make the yummiest coffee and all the good coffee shops (including Fleet, Flat White, Foxcroft and Ginger) have it.  They also have a store at Borough Market.

The original store is in Monmouth Street Covent Garden.

They sell their beans in store.

Really nice coffee - rice, creamy, delicious.  Probably about an 8/10.  My only criticism is they only serve full cream milk - not even soy.  Not very nice for the lactose intolerant.  But I guess they are just intolerant to the lactose intolerant.

A nice selection of pastries - the almond croissants really tempted me...but they'll do that.

Heading to Deutschland today for the Karneval - so get ready for some posts on bratwurst, spetzle and all other fabulous things German.