Well we have had a busy few weeks at the restaurant. Everyone in the kitchen has been working their socks off!! Last week we had a wedding, a funeral, 90th birthday party, 60th birthday party, 5 different dinner parties oh and catering for the BBC!
The work for the BBC was something new that I had never done before. Apparently it is called Food Styling and it opened my eyes to a whole new area within the food industry. It was such fun to create these beautiful canapes with twists and curls, making the colours really stand out and then photographing it to appear on our blog and our up and coming website. They were obviously happy with our work as they called back and asked us to set up for another scene, which is very exciting indeed!! 7am tomorrow, bright and breezy on set. It has got my brain ticking over though. I love working with food, I love meeting the people that I work with and I love creating new recipes. I also love my new camera which takes some pretty amazing photos. Combining the two elements together is something that i had never really thought of before and something that definitely requires a little more investigation!
More importantly though I have 3 different quotes to do for weddings, 2 meetings this afternoon to prepare for and orders for the work that we have on this week. I am going to try to pop down a few recipes here and there for folk to try and I thought that I would start with our lovely Cheese Scones:
12oz Self Raising Flour
5 oz Grated Cheese
1 tsp of Chilli Powder
2 tsp of Mustard Powder
A pinch of Salt
1 tbsp of sunflower oil
1 egg1/4 pint of milk (roughly to add)
If you are using a food processor the pop all the dry ingredients in and then add the egg and oil whilst the machine is on a low speed. Pop it up a notch and then slowly add the milk. You may need all of it or just some but you want the mix to come together to form a ball. If you are doing this by hand rub the cheese and flour in together. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and then, using a wooden spoon, add in the egg, oil and milk to form a dough. Pat the mix out onto a floured surface to about 1 - 1.5" thick. This mix should cut out about 5 or 6 scones. Pop onto a baking tray and glaze with milk. Into the oven for 15 - 20 mins at 190*c. They should come out lightly golden browned - enjoy with a cuppa and the morning papers!
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