Archive for September, 2009

A Cook’s guide to: Salmon

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Read my cook’s guide about salmon and 6 ways to prepare it. Comes with 2 recipes as well! Do try it and let me know how it goes!!

Read more here: A Cook’s guide to Salmon

In the meantime, keep Cookyn! :)

Italian Cookyn session

We had Sharm in last week’s Italian session and his pictures were so nice!! Thanks Sharm for letting me use them here!

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Soup-er star clams (caption as per Sharm, hahaha)

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Here I am telling everyone that the live clams go POP!

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Once the clams are steamed, QUICKLY take them out!

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added to a homemade chicken stock, lovingly boiled overnight…

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…tie up a herb bouquet…

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pop the clams into a bowl…

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…yummy slurp!!

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Then we made huge meatballs that looked like they were on steroids (everyone thought they would be little ikea-sized ones!)

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Pop on some fresh mozzarella cheese and into the oven to bake

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Ooooh lala!

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Pull out the expensive tube of truffle puree…

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…to make mushroom risotto with truffle and topped with roasted portobello

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Finally we macerated some strawberries…

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…to make a fresh strawberry puree to top off our vanilla panna cotta!

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Sweet!


One more weekend of Italian fun then we roll into one of our classic parties – Japanese tempura!! Woot!

The Best of Cookyn with Mervyn (I) – brought to you by Kitchen Culture

 

We’ve been invited by Kitchen Culture to feature the Best of Cookyn with Mervyn at their spanking showroom! This is a demo session but all guests go home with a goodie bag containing a duck breast, a small jar of pommery mustard and some homemade caramel rum sauce!

Come join us!

Kitchen culture 27 sept 2009

Italian Cookyn Party and BBQ night!

Mama mia!

Irresistible Italian and BBQ night!