Food Riot

The pork fillet shrunk a bit during cooking. Still looks pretty tasty, though!

So there I was plying you with generous doses of verbosity, telling you exactly how I was going to make Pork Wellington-ington-ington-tiddle-i-po. Well, I stuck as close as possible to my recipe and achieved a pretty good result. Pretty good, not perfect. Here are the things that didn’t work and the reasons (I think) why. Read more…

Well, it looks pretty good... what is it like to eat?

Right. Confession time.  I did lead certain people astray by announcing on Facebook that I would be making this again tonight. I have since discovered that I was lying. I think in fact that what I did (and investigations are ongoing) was play a cheap shot at getting people to read this blog.  I watch the stats like a hawk, celebrating each and every “hit” with a short burst of opera from The Marriage of Figaro. I do the singing, the cat does the dirty looks. Read more…

The problem with writing recipe blogs is that you are mentally cooking the dish as you write. Actually cooking it can be a whole new kettle of fish.

Well, I’m tickled pinkish to tell you that I followed my instructions and the dish was a triumph dahling!

The pork was cooked to perfection, the goo was almost perfect – the pears were slightly too juicy. The bacon was crisp and the rice and everything else were yum.

Go me!