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Caribbean Spicy Bean Burgers with Pineapple Chilli Sauce

October 23, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 22 Comments

caribbean spicy bean burger
I have been thinking for a while about posting some ‘themed’ recipes on here. The food I eat at home is rarely expensive so I know that almost everything I cook is reasonably priced. This means I can then buy the organic or free range versions of ingredients without breaking the bank. Most of the reason I eat cheaply is because I mostly cook vegetable based meals. If I do have meat I use cheap cuts, or less of it, but I do very occasionally have a fillet steak blowout. A new outlook for me recently is that humble doesn’t have to be hum drum. Hence the first in a new series of blog posts which coincide with my new Saturday morning radio slot on BBC Radio Berkshire (very excited!) where I will create tasty, easy recipes to feed 4 people for £6 or less. First up, these Caribbean spicy bean burgers.

Ingredients

You will need (for four):

For the burgers –
2x 400g cans of mixed beans, drained £1.58
50g breadcrumbs £0.30
2 tsp ground allspice £0.10
Few sprigs thyme, leaves only £0.10
1 egg £0.35
3 spring onions, sliced £0.35
Salt and pepper £0.02
For the pinepple sauce –
1x 227g canned, chopped pineapple in juice £0.43
125g caster sugar £0.19
175ml water £0.00
4 tbsp white wine vinegar £0.18
2 garlic cloves, crushed £0.05
1/2 scotch bonnet chilli, roughly chopped £0.08
2 tsp cornflour £0.03
Salt and pepper £0.02
4 crusty white rolls £1.20
Total £4.98

Method

Put the drained beans into a large bowl and roughly crush them with a masher or the back of a spoon.
Add all the remaining burger ingredients, except the egg, and thoroughly mix together.
Taste the mixture to check the seasoning and when you are happy crack in the egg, mix well and then form into burger shapes.
Put to one side while you make the pineapple sauce.

Drain the pineapple and then put into a saucepan with all the remaining ingredients except the cornflour.
Bring the mixture to the boil, stirring occasionally, and boil for around five minutes.
Mix the cornflour with a little water to make a paste and then mix this into the sauce.
Bring the mixture back to the boil then remove from the heat.
Blend the pineapple sauce until mostly smooth but with some pineapple chunks still left.
Put to one side to cool down. read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Beans, Bread, Budget Meals, Burger, Chilli, Dairy & Eggs, Dinner, Eggs, Fruit, Garlic, Herbs, October, Onion, Pineapple, Quick Recipes, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Spices, Store Cupboard, Thyme, Vegetables, Vegetarian Tagged With: budget meals, burger, dinner, recipe

PipsDish at Covent Garden

October 20, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 8 Comments

From the outside the PipsDish

restaurant in Covent Garden looks simple and understated, welcoming and homely. Inside is a similar story with a few wooden tables and chairs and big kitchen at the end. The kitchen gave me pretty bad kitchen envy with the piles of crockery on the huge shelves. It’s a nice place to be as there’s plenty to look at as people bustle around and you start to notice the fresh ingredients and food dotted around the place.  read more

Filed Under: Restaurants Tagged With: London, Restaurants

Baked Blackberry Cheesecake

October 16, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 22 Comments

baked blackberry cheesecake
You know when you go out blackberry picking you end up eating pretty much all of them and have nothing to show for it when you get home? As much as it is very hard to resist keeping any of the berries for later I thought it would be well worth the effort for a sort of hidden gem baked blackberry cheesecake. Beneath the pillowy layers of soft cheese you can find little bits of sweet, purple fruit. I didn’t have to save too many either as you only need a handful for this recipe. They do say that picking blackberries in October isn’t a good idea as the devil is meant to have peed on them. If you feel like living on the edge then by all means take the risk; if not, a quick trip to the shops should sort you out.

Ingredients

You will need:

  • 180g digestive biscuits
  • 75g butter
  • 600g cream cheese
  • 220g caster sugar
  • 150g sour cream
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 tbsp. plain flour
  • Large handful blackberries

Method

Line the base of a 20cm spring form cake tin. Spring form is your friend for this.
Preheat an oven to 130C.

Crush the digestive biscuits in a bowl; I like to use the end of my rolling pin as it’s immensely satisfying. Melt the butter and mix this into the biscuits.

When the biscuits and butter are well combined press the mixture into the bottom of the cake tin and then chill in the fridge.

Whisk together the cream cheese and sugar then mix in the sour cream.

Add the eggs one at a time then add the flour. read more

Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Berries, Biscuit, Blackberry, Butter, Cheese, Dairy & Eggs, Eggs, Foraging, Fruit, October, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons Tagged With: Baking, foraging, recipe

Baketopia – an edible pop up to launch National Baking Week

October 12, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 5 Comments

Baketopia mushrooms
It’s all about baking at the moment. The Great British Bake Off has taken over our Tuesday evenings and I for one have felt the need to bake more so than usual. National Baking Week starts on Monday (the 14th to 20th October 2013) and Baketopia was a fantastic way to kick it off. The Tattooed Bakers, Nevie Pie Cakes, Caking It, Cake Revolution and Conjurer’s Kitchen are some of the people who contributed to Baketopia which is also supported by John Whaite, winner of GBBO 2012.  

The event is being held in Kingly Court (off Carnaby Street in London) and the last day you can gorge yourself on all manner of sweet treats is 12th October. It is quite a thing to be seen, it’s hard to believe that almost everything is edible. I hope my pictures can get across how realistic some of the bakes were.

 Above (clockwise from the top) is the edible meadow; covered in brightly coloured macarons and biscuits. The unicorn was fantastic and it seemed such a shame to cut into it (although it was made of rainbow cake so well worth a slice) and The Tattooed Bakers told me it took around 120 hours to put together. I can’t imagine where I would even start.
I loved the ridiculously realistic looking slug on top of the rather magical looking mushrooms. Even though I know it’s not actually a slug, I wasn’t tempted to try it! The meringue wigwam was so bright and colourful and the pistachio meringue I tried was delicious. read more

Filed Under: Books & Reviews, Events, Events & Interviews, Reviews Tagged With: event, review

New Menu from The Rising Sun at Stockcross

October 9, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 3 Comments

I’ve not done this before but there is a first time for everything; a second review of somewhere I’ve reviewed before. The Rising Sun at Stockcross has never served me anything other than perfection so it is with great pleasure that I can share their new menu with you. I haven’t tried it yet but I plan to try each and every one of the following:

Starters
Rabbit faggots with roasted parsnip puree and pickled carrots
Home cured salmon gravadlax with grated hen’s egg, horseradish and toasted soda bread
Soup of the day with toasted sourdough bread
Warm roasted beetroot, pickled walnut and goat’s curd salad
Country terrine with sweet pickled mushrooms and toasted soda bread

Mains
Roasted monkfish tail with dill mash, crispy home cured bacon and a pea and fennel stew
Beef cheek braised in Maggs Mild with smoked mash and roasted shallots
Pheasant kiev with herby garlic butter, Jerusalem artichoke puree, roasted potatoes and wild mushrooms
Home smoked haddock with braised chicory, broken potatoes, spinach sauce and a crispy hen’s egg
Jerusalem artichoke and wild mushroom pearl barley ‘risotto’ with artichoke chips

The only problem is knowing where to start! read more

Filed Under: Restaurants Tagged With: Restaurants

Passion Fruit and Jasmine Iced Tea

October 4, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 19 Comments

passion fruit and jasmine iced tea
When it starts getting a bit colder and the evenings are getting darker earlier this seems to coincide with me increasing my calorie consumption. I like to think that I’m planning for the winter and storing some (ahem) insulation but really, I think we all know, I’m just plain greedy. To counteract this I have done a bit of exercise; I’m as shocked as you. With exercise comes the desire for cleanliness and a lack of guilt so that is what this refreshing drink is all about.

Ingredients

You will need (for around 1 litre):

  • 3 tsp jasmine tea
  • 1 tsp palm sugar
  • 3 passion fruits
  • Ice cubes
  • read more

    Filed Under: Autumn, Cocktails, Drinks, Fruit, October, Passion Fruit, Recipes By Month, Seasons, Tea Tagged With: drinks, recipe, tea

    Millionaire’s Tart

    September 29, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 25 Comments

    Millionaire's Tart with Salted Chocolate - All That I'm Eating
    Baking is something I save for one of two occasions; a rainy day (classic excuse) or a day where my eyebrows have been almost continuously furrowed. With the return of the Great British Bake Off on our screens I felt it was high time I got out my scales and greaseproof paper to make something truly indulgent. Well if you’re only going to bake occasionally then why make something healthy? Millionaire’s Tart is possibly my favourite tart of all time. Also, I wanted to make sure that I could retain my pastry skills to ensure I avoided the dreaded soggy bottom.

    Ingredients

    You will need (for a 20cm tart):

    For the pastry –

    • 220g plain flour
    • 120g butter (I used salted)
    • Cold water
    • 1 can dulce de leche

    For the chocolate topping –

    • 200g high cocoa chocolate
    • 150ml double cream
    • 25g salted butter
    • Sea salt, I really like Cornish Sea Salt for this as I think it has a lovely clean flavour

    I was so impressed with how my pastry case turned out I felt I needed to provide evidence that I had made it myself!

    Method

    Make the pastry by rubbing the butter into the flour until you have a breadcrumb texture then bring the mixture together into a dough using a little cold water.

    Knead the dough lightly on a floured surface then roll out and line a 20cm tart tin.

    Cut or roll off the excess and prick the base with a fork. read more

    Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Butter, Caramel, Chocolate, Dairy & Eggs, Pastry, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, September, Tart Tagged With: Baking, Chocolate, pudding, recipe

    Wild Hazelnut Brittle

    September 23, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 25 Comments

    I have been noticing more and more things in the hedgerows. Perhaps it’s due to the purchasing of a foraging handbook which has become the mainstay of my bedside table or maybe my observational skills have drastically improved. Whichever the reason it has meant even more slowing down and stopping on a walk; not irritating if you are me but rather tiresome if you are walking with me. Apparently. read more

    Filed Under: Autumn, Caramel, Foraging, Pudding, Recipes By Month, Seasons, September, Sweet Treats Tagged With: foraging, hazelnut, sweet treats

    Review: Puro Coffee

    September 18, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 9 Comments

    Puro coffee selection
    Although more of a tea drinker I do enjoy a good coffee. It has to be ‘my’ perfect coffee though; strong, not too bitter and creamy. It’s surprisingly hard to find my ideal coffee so I tend to create something reasonable at home. So when Puro coffee got in touch to see if I wanted to sample some of their coffee I thought it was a great excuse to hone my coffee making skills.

    I have to admit that I had never heard of Puro until they got in touch. That’s because you normally find their coffee in Gourmet Burger Kitchen or The National Trust. Puro have a great attitude towards the environment and the rainforests and all their coffee is fair trade and organic. For every cup of coffee sold money goes back into protecting the rainforests in South America. 

    We weren’t sure which coffee to try first so we went with Puro Fuerte. This is a 50:50 blend of Arabica and Robusta coffee beans from Guatamala, Peru, Honduras and Congo. I thought this one had a deep coffee flavour that was smooth and rich. This blend was my favourite of the three. read more

    Filed Under: Books & Reviews, Coffee, Reviews Tagged With: Coffee, review

    Elderberry and Einkorn Scones

    September 14, 2013 By All That I'm Eating 25 Comments

    Einkorn flour for scones with elderberries
    I think it’s fair to say that autumn has arrived. I feel like I made the most of summer this year so I welcome the autumn with much more gusto than usual. It’s been a very long time since I had an apple or a pear so I am looking forward to getting my hands on some fine specimens at the farmers’ market or when I’m lucky enough to find a fruitful tree. Until then I have elderberries to tide me over. 

    I’ve been waiting for the elderberries to come out this year as I have a hawk’s eye when it comes to finding the elderflowers so I knew where to start to find what I was looking for. I picked these elderberries on a drizzly day and perhaps a week or so sooner than I should have done as there were a fair few green berries I had to pick out.

    The birds had already had their share of the berries so the first few stops were a bit thin on the ground. By the time I had found enough we were pretty damp but the rain can easily be ignored when your foraging companion ever so kindly offers to put you on their shoulders so that you can reach the very best berries; much more fun than scrabbling around in the depths of a thicket. read more

    Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Berries, Butter, Dairy & Eggs, Elderberry, Foraging, Fruit, Recipes By Month, Seasons, September Tagged With: Baking, foraging

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