Roast Rib of Beef

This meal looked delicious and tasted even better! It was a scrumptious end of the week dinner. In England this is a typical Sunday lunch. I cooked the Roast Beef with roast potatoes, carrots and Yorkshire puddings. Of course no Yorkshire pudding would be complete without gravy. I have to confess, I needed a bit of help with the gravy, that was where my Father stepped in. I learnt something new, that coating the beef in mustard enhances the flavour.

Ratings
Taste: 10
Appearance: 9
Difficulty: 5

Shepherds Pie and peas

This meal is a winter special, it is warm and delicious, comfort food at it's best! I added tomato puree, a tin of tomatoes and an extra onion to bulk it out. With hindsight I wouldn't have made the mince quite so runny, as the mashed potato struggled to stay afloat! I stayed at home to cook whilst my Mother and brothers went to watch what sounded like the opposite of a chick flick. Feeling noble. I'm just composing a letter to MasterChef to allow me to include the book recipes on my blog. Wish me luck!

Ratings
Taste: 9
Appearance: 3
Difficulty: 5

French Onion Soup

Today I cooked my 2nd recipe! I chose to cook french onion soup.
Since I doubled up the quantities, the recipe took nearly double the time, I also chose not to put brandy in it!
In the middle of chopping up the onions my youngest brother, Henry, came back from a camping trip and I got distracted. Chopping and peeling the onions took a long time and I wore sunglasses to stop me from crying, it didn't work! I tried wearing goggles, no more tears! I really felt like Julia Child from the movie 'Julie and Julia', surrounded by piles of chopped onions, and brandishing a large knife!
The onion soup took longer to make than I had anticipated, so we ended up eating it for lunch the next day.
Ratings
Taste: 7
The soup was too sweet for my likings, but the cheese croûtes were really nice.
Appearance: 7
The soup looked nice, if you are into french onion soup.
Difficulty: 7
The soup isn't actually that difficult to make it is just time consuming.

 

Macaroons

My first post! I made macaroons today.
I made this recipe because my friend Hayley is celiac and this recipe doesn't include wheat, instead it uses rice flour. Half way through making the macaroons, Hayley was nominated to do the ALS ice bucket challenge and we decided to do it before her Dad came to pick her up. A rather cold interruption! We had to use blanched almonds in this recipe to decorate the cookies at the end. If you want to know how to do this, you put almonds in a bowl of boiling water, leave for a minute and take them out and squeeze. It is a lot of fun to pop the almonds out of their skins and make them fly all over the kitchen!

I will rate all my recipes based on taste, appearance and difficulty. All out of ten.

Taste: 9.5
Appearance: 9
Difficulty: 4