Thread: My weekend spent in the kitchen (pics)

Decided i would treat the mrs to a nice home cooked meal. Spent nearly 7hrs in the kitchen but the results were fantastic (even if i do say so myself)


Starter - King Scallops with a pea puree, pea shoots and a smoked bacon veloute. very fresh and amazing taste. the veloute didnt foam up at all so was more of a sauce




Main - Braised ox cheeks, mash potatoe, chantenay carrots, sugar snaps and a port and red wine reduction



Dessert - Apple Tarte Tatin




Then this morning for breakfast went for an American theme.. PANCAKES !! with smoked bacon and eggs with LOTS of maple syrup





Had to go for a few mile walk after all that.

Nice surprise for the Mrs.! I have never seen eggs on pancakes, not to say it doesn't happen, but it's either eggs or pancakes for me, not both at the same time! I do miss the full English breakfast!

Later,

That looks fucking amazing!

Wow that looks incredible. Nice job!

Niiiice!

I'm the one who cooks usually (shes the baker) and I'll be damned if I spend 7 hours in the kitchen lol.

I did spend 4hrs today, but that was slow cooking ribs in the oven (since it was pouring rain all day.)

Thanks for the comments and likes guys. SpecB, its the same here. The Mrs is a great baker but i do most of the cooking.

Damn I should not have opened this thread.. now I'm hungry.

That looks delicious, if you want to make the foam. In a cylindral container add about 2 cups of the sauce, 1tbsp of Soy lethican which you can find at most stores. Make sure the sauce is warm tilt slight maybe 35degrees with hand blender mix together and slowly bring to the top and add air to the mix it should foam up. Take note when making foams its always best to use a milk base it holds better under heat.

Thanks for the tip there lunchmonkey.. i was a bit annoyed it didnt foam up cos it took about an hour just to do the veloute !! lol.
Will give that a go next time

Wow that's impressive... Don't think i could ever make anything like that!