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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Lemon and garlic chicken tray bake

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

This tray bake is an easy and cheap way to cater for a lot of people. But the real star of the tray bake is the layer of potatoes underneath the chicken — it soaks up the wine, garlic, butter, lemon, and chicken juices to become something very special. Lemon and garlic chicken tray bake [...]

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Rhubarb apple walnut crumble pudding with créme anglaise

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

This pudding was easily my favourite thing I have cooked so far this year. Last month I had friends around for soup, Welsh rarebit, tea, and pudding. They also brought Koko Black truffles, and a huge tray of the most amazing almond biscuits in the whole world (from the Queen Vic markets). Good fare for [...]

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Nigella Lawson’s Guinness Chocolate Cake

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Nigella Lawson’s Guinness chocolate cake, with vanilla cream cheese frosting. You’re going to need a very large and deep cake tin. Nigella suggests a 23cm, but I used a 25cm and wouldn’t have wanted to go smaller. Don’t bother with a springform tin, but line the cake tin completely with GladBake. My modifications in brackets. [...]

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