5 happy moments from this super sunny week:
1. Making a house a home
2. Thunderstorms
3. Boopshi's
4. Ice coffee
5. Our first guest
Fingers crossed the sun keeps his hat on for the weekend!
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Ricotta
food, life, ramblings
Ricotta
food, life, ramblings
Friday, 18 July 2014
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Penne alla Carbonara
After our trip to the River Café last month, maman kindly gifted us her old copy of the first River Cafe Cook Book. Flicking through this book is inspiring: so inspiring that it every time I open it, it tempts me to quite my current life and go and live and cook in Italy for the rest of my years.
Shutting the book and returning to real life doesn't stop that dream, but I can make it just a little bit real by cooking that food here, in my East London kitchen. So last week, our final meal in our previous flat in Bethnal Green, I cooked up an enormous plateful of penne alla carbonara. It was one of the best meals we'd had all year, eaten on the floor round the coffee table as everything else had been packed away.
This may not be the healthiest of meals. But that's not the point.
Ingredients
200g pancetta, cut into matchsticks
1 tablespoon olive oil
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 egg yolks
120ml double cream
150g Parmesan, freshly grated
250g penne rigate
Method
1. Slowly fry the pancetta in olive oil. Add some black pepper.
2. Beat the egg yolks with the cream. Season with salt and pepper. Add half the Parmesan.
3. Cook the penne in a lot of salted water. Drain.
4. Combine cooked penne with hot pancetta and oil.
5. Pour in the cream mixture. Stir so that every piece is covered.
6. Add the remaining Parmesan to serve.
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Raspberry Custard Cake
Apologies for the radio silence. Moving flat and having flu in one weekend was not conducive to blogging. But now the move is complete (save, for a few key issues), and the flu is slowly disappearing from my tired body.
All of this meant B's birthday on Saturday was not what it should have been. Walking up and down flights of stairs with heavy bags and boxes, trying to keep a girl at breaking point calm and stop her from passing out, doing all he could to stay smiling when the key to the new flat broke in the lock... B had a challenging day to say the least.
Having said that he did get cake. And the cake wasn't half bad. Alice Hart's raspberry custard cake was devoured at random times throughout Saturday, the much needed sugar rush bringing us all back to life before we dove in to more piles of boxes. This is a summer cake, and a cake for a special occasion. Usefully, it's also pretty hardy and survived a car journey from flat to flat balanced on my knee, a couple of hours left out in the sunshine, and lots of flights of stairs: that's a good test for a cake.
Recipe can be found here. Please make it at least once this summer.
Friday, 11 July 2014
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