Iggy's Dinners
Sourcing and saucing
I am writing this a few days late! Don’t kill me! Okay lets get on with this. Nice stuff. I made an orange sponge cake. It went well. I whisked some egg yolks with some sugar. Beat some flour and stuff in. Then I whisked up some egg whites to stiff peaks and and folded …
Today wasn’t the best day, I’ll be the first to admit it. It started well. I started by making a praline. To do this (you can follow this recipe to make some good easy praline) you toast three ounces of either slivered or powdered almonds (slivered works best) for ten minutes in a 160 degree …
Copacetic man. Today was a good day. We have a cold circulating in our house and autumn is striking so we needed some good old stew. I made a Daube de Boeuf. ‘Twas epic. I started by marinating some beef, some carrots and some onions in some wine, herbs and salt for three hours stirring …
Okay! Sorry I’m posting it late (again). It was a short day and only one recipe but hey, I asked the people at school to rate it out of 10 and it got an average of 9.3 so I’m fairly happy with that score! I prefer not having a perfect score because I feel like …
Now this is a French dish if ever I saw one. Classic piece of meat with some potatoes and a cream sauce. It was not the best, but it was definitely not the worst (see Tuesday 1st September and Tuesday 22nd September). I started by making Sautéed Potatoes. I made them diced (we have uneven …
Hello people! Glad to be back in the world of humans after yesterday! Today I (thanks to dad for help) boned a shoulder of lamb! I passed the knife down the edge of the bone and, doing little cuts, cut it off! It worked like a dream. I then stuffed it with a mixture of …