Between working as
a private cook, numerous trips to London to find a home for my move next week,
being bedridden with flu and blogger being very stubborn about uploading my
photos its been far too long since I last blogged. But boy have I been cooking
my cotton socks off during all this!
Now, firmly
ensconced in bed, with a blissful empty day ahead and my London move all sorted
(I actually have a roof to live under, hooray!) I can get back to blogging.
Other than the
lovely little family (plus poodles) I have been cooking for daily, I was given
the day off to cook a feast for my own dad’s birthday. As he had eaten lunch at
the fabulous Cambio de Tercia, it was all slightly in vain, but there is never
an excuse for eating extravagantly in my books and this meant LOBSTER. I drove
down to the Portsmouth fish market: a warehouse with the sea lapping at its
heels and tables laden with the freshest flesh the sea could offer. Resisting
the urge to buy up some crabs as well, I spied my price and bought three medium
lobsters from one very gruff fisherman.
So what did I do
with them? I love to actually taste the sweet flesh of lobster so opted to make
a large deconstructed (hate that word but it really was!) cocktail with crisp
lettuce, tomatoes, chopped avo, new potatoes and the obligatory Marie Rose
sauce, all sprinkled with chives. To go with this I made some buttery milk-loaf
rolls which you had the option of filling to make a lobster roll. We had the birthday cake for pudding: a
coffee and walnut battenburg as it
combines my dad’s two favourite cakes. Needless to say, being a diehard
marzipan fan, the birthday boy was happy.
Coffee & Walnut Battenburg recipe taken from The Great British Bakeoff Cookbook
