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Fresh Friday | 11 August

Dear Fresh Friday friends, This week’s menu has a focus on “Tex Mex” cuisine or the cooking of Texas and Mexico. Scroll down to order. “Tex Mex” has been recognised as a regional American style of cuisine since the 1970’s and has grown in popularity over the decades since then. I attended a wedding in […]

Fresh Friday | 4 August

Dear Fresh Friday friends, This week we indulge in the fabulous flavours and aromas of Spain. Order below. Beginning with a tapas dish I have made before, using dates and dried Serrano ham, once baked, the dates are set on a rocket leaf salad and dressed with a “mini trial batch” of blueberry finishing vinegar. […]

Fresh Friday | 28 July

Hello Fresh Friday friends, This week’s menu is an English winter feast, perfect for the cold weather we have at present. We begin with a bright green soup, rich with the flavours of ham hocks, leeks and herbs. This is followed by our best Shepherds Pie. Made from scratch with leg of lamb, which we […]

Fresh Friday | 23 June

Dear Fresh Friday friends, Boy it’s chilly outside, especially in the evening. With that in mind, I thought I would make a Swiss style main course to keep us all warm on the inside. Ciao, Peter

Fresh Friday | 16 June

Dear Fresh Friday friends, This week I am preparing a Pacific seafood chowder as a main course. Made with a rich seafood stock, white wine, leeks, spices and potatoes, it’s brimming with salmon, ocean prawns, squid, clams, scallops and mussels. The seafood comes separately to the soup, and is added when the soup is boiling, […]

Fresh Friday | 9 June

Dear Fresh Friday friends, This week we are indulging in the wonderful cuisine of Morocco, with all its fabulous spices, fresh herbs, nuts, slow simmered meats and rich dried fruits. So bring on the cold weather, I have the perfect dishes to relax with. See you on Friday! Peter

Fresh Friday | 2 June

Bonjour Fresh Friday Friends, This week I have France as my cooking focus. The menu begins with what could possibly be the ugliest, but most flavoursome vegetable of them all, Celeriac! Simmered slowly and presented as a cream soup, it has a lovely warm celery flavour, topped with crisp garlic croutons and you have a […]

Fresh Friday | 26 May

Yassou Fresh Friday friends, this week I have prepared “My big Greek feast!”. Filled with all the best flavours of Greece, including lamb, lemons, garlic, nuts, honey, filo pastry, lentils and of course the perennial fetta cheese and olives! So break out the bouzouki, raise your arms in the air, and dance! If you need […]