So we have had another busy week in our little kitchen. Private dinners, cake baking, lunches for the our regular clients every day and some more TV work and of course lots of meetings! Julia created some beautiful cupcakes this week for one of our regulars with lots of lovely butter icing piled up high. So very pretty and of course we had to test them! It is a requirement in our kitchen to taste test everything, it's a hard life sometimes :)
The food styling work this week was making a fish chowder for the same programme that we worked on last week. TV work involves a lot of waiting around as I found out. The team from the BBC work so hard and their eye for detail is incredible. The set guys were all lovely and helpful and made sure that I wasn't in the way in the filming process. They have to make sure that they have enough food for numerous ( and i mean numerous!!) takes and that the background and props all stay in the same location, drinks are at the same levels, bread basket has the same number of slices in it etc. Attention to detail is very high. I really enjoyed watching it all take place and hopefully it is something that we can do again in the future. I bought myself a food styling book this week to have a little look at what all the tricks of the trade are - it is 400 pages long so a fair bit of bedtime reading for me!!
We have a big group in for lunch in the shop today and we have some tasty dishes on. A lovely big fruit tart with local strawberries on it, crisp meringues and chocolate brownies for pudding. Smoked haddock chowder, baked squash with pinenuts, spices and raisins; a roasted leg of lamb with rosemary and garlic and Spanish chicken stew are some of the tasty main courses on. Pop in if you are passing and try some of our tasty delights.
I am off up to Arrochar at the weekend and looking forward to sampling some of the seafood up there. Apparently there are a couple of really good local restaurants / pubs which do excellent food so I can't wait to tuck in. I thought that I would share with you our Asian Salmon recipe - this is massively popular with my friends and can be done on the bbq or in the oven:
Side of salmon, skin on.
Lime cut into quarters
Lemongrass - 2 stalks
Chilli - 2 depending on how hot you like it
Garlic - 2 cloves
Ginger - 2 " cube
Soy - 3 Tbsp
Sesame Oil - 1 Tbsp
Thai Fish Sauce - 2 Tsps
Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce - 1 Tbsp (use honey if you don't want too much spice)
Coriander (Fresh)
Orange Juice - 2 Tbsp
Lots of silver foil
Rip off 2 large sheets of foil and place one horizontally and one vertically across each other (to form a cross as it were). Place the salmon in the middle and pull the sides up slightly to form an edge to stop the juices escaping. Roughly chop the garlic, chilli and ginger and throw over the salmon. Squeeze the lime juice over and bash up the lemongrass up and pop it in too. Pour all the juices on too and add a chunk of butter if you would like. Keep the coriander seperate as we will use it after the salmon comes out. Wrap the foil up tightly at the top to allow the salmon to steam in the oven/ on the bbq. Pop it in the over at about 180* / 200* and cook for about 20 mins. You may need to open the foil up to finish off the cooking - make sure it is pale pink ontop and cooked through. To serve, sprinkle over the fresh coriander and serve with the juices in the foil. It is lovely with noodles or rice. Enjoy!
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