Iggy's Dinners
Sourcing and saucing
Today was a side dish day. I made brown braised turnips and braised peas with onions. To start off with, I boiled my turnips for 5 minutes roughly. Then I sautéed them in hot butter and oil. Then I added some stock, some sugar and some butter. I covered and cooked for about half an …
Today I made a slightly pointless recipe. I made a thing called soubise. It’s rice and onions basically. You boil the rice for excactly 5 minutes, drain, then fry the onions in some butter. Then I put the rice in the onions and placed in the oven for about an hour. Then remove and mix …
Today was a nice day, I had to adapt a tad, we didn’t have any mushrooms so I had to do a different recipe, but it ended up being great. I made grilled chicken. It was so good. I started by melting some butter and painting it in the chicken. I put it in a …
Today I made only 1 recipe, though it was a good one. It was an Escalope de Veau à l’estragon. In english that means a veal scallop with a tarragon sauce. To do this, first I fried some veal scallops in some butter and oil for 1 minute a side ( it’s crazy; I used …
Hello. My name is Derek. No it’s not, it’s Iggy. I don’t know why I just said it was Derek. It is not. For it is Iggy. All jokes aside, yesterday I made a stock, a new stock, an exciting stock. A white chicken stock. I cheated slightly I have to confess. I put in …
Today was a short day, so short blog. I made endives gratinees. I started by preparing by endives (washing them etc) and placing them in a pan. Add some water and smear with butter. Then cover and boil for 10 minutes. Uncover and boil for a further 10. Cover with some paper and place in …