Cooking with Parma Ham at Le Cordon Bleu.
At the end of every month, I like to look back and reflect on ten things that made me happy and that I’m thankful for so here’s my Ten Happy Things for July. My first Henley Regatta Thanks to the lovely ladies at Debenhams, I got to attend the Henley Royal Regatta with a bunch of fellow bloggers. The weather was amazing that day and we were treated to a lovely meal in the Riverside enclosure. Oh, and I got to choose a dress for the occasion from Debenhams! Christmas in July This heatwave has been insane! So when I…
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that we always eat out on Saturdays for lunch and 95% of the time they’re Italian restaurants. I can’t remember how I first heard about Luca, which is an Italian restaurant in Clerkenwell, but it looked lovely decor-wise and I liked the look of the menu so off we went one sunny Saturday. There are two parts to the restaurant – as you enter there is a bar area where you can have drinks and lighter bites to eat and the restaurant is at the back. The restaurant has a lot of natural…
Flour & Grape is the new kid on the Bermondsey Street block. Located in what used to be Antico (another Italian restaurant we loved) it was pleasantly familiar when we stepped inside on a Saturday for lunch. The decor is largely the same, with a few changes here and there. The most notable is the trays of fresh pasta which greet you in the window as you approach the entrance. We had only recently discovered Antico and had been a couple of times before it closed. It had even made my list of our favourite Italian restaurants in London and…
I bet I can guess your Christmas menu… roast turkey, gammon ham, perhaps a roast beef? Accompanied by roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, parsnips and gravy. Am I close? And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that but after you read this post, you might want to consider adding a pork Wellington with Parma Ham and red wine jus to your Christmas dinner menu! I was invited by Parma Ham to a festive cooking class with Chef Bridget Colvin at The Good Housekeeping Institute Cookery School in Soho, London. Bridget is an accomplished chef and recipe developer who works with Michel Roux Jr at…
