Showing posts with label brunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brunch. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 July 2013

Summer

Hello again :)

It's been a month-ish. In that time, I have travelled to faraway places and eaten lots of food, glorious food. There may be posts about those trips soon. Maybe. But for now, we have the easy comfort of brunch in an English town.

Middlesbrough gets a bad rep for being a little rough around the edges, which is kind of not so nice for Dan because it's where he grew up. It annoys him to no end when Middlesbrough gets called a terrible place.

And yeah, I won't deny that there are some really scruffy bits near the town centre, but the area where Dan grew up is lovely - it's all quiet suburbs, leafy lanes, family homes and big back gardens.

I always enjoy the walk to and from Dan's place just because it's a nice change of scenery.


Starting the day with brunch is always a good idea... even though I burnt the toast a little :/


Dan's new Lavazza coffee machine arrived today - which meant we got to use the nice coffee cups and pretend we were in Italy.


I always feel like daisies shouldn't be considered weeds. They're rather pretty, especially when you see them spread across an open field or sprouting on a curb. I will consider writing a poem about that. 


The walk home from Dan's - I was a little afraid someone would come out and yell at me because I was taking a picture of their house heh. This house has a really nice garden which you can see from a hole in the fence - just like the ones I imagined were in those Enid Blyton books that I used to read when I was a kid. 


Giant houses.


Another English summer day - a little grey but always good for a walk.

Monday, 29 April 2013

Egg Cocottes

Hello one and all!

It's been a while, I hope you are all well. It's coming to the end of my third year. Update: Still up to my eyeballs in work but well, things are going alright I think :)

It's been an exciting three years to say the least, and now I guess I'm just getting ready for it all to come to a close. Summer holidays are being planned and I look forward to going home and seeing my family.

Been pretty busy with work but I thought, this blog needed an update so here it is folks. I present egg cocottes! The first time I saw this recipe was on Rachel Khoo's Little Paris Kitchen where she calls it Oeufs en Cocotte.

Which pretty much just means eggs in pots - so I've gone for a hybrid English/French title ie. Egg Cocottes. And of course, I got the recipe from Sorted haha. Seriously, they should pay me to do their PR :P


Here we cooked up some mushrooms, bacon and onions in crème fraîche. YUM. Love mushrooms. 


There is something very satisfying about cracking an egg perfectly. Do you ever get that feeling? 


So it's quite straight forward to make. Just the mushroom thing as the bottom layer, crack an egg in and then some chopped tomatoes and a dollop of crème fraîche on top. Finally, sprinkle a bit of salt and pepper over the top. I think it looks quite pretty :) 


Time for the bain-marie.


Which is really just a fancy term for water bath haha.


And 15 minutes later...


Tadaa!