I have been shooting a bit of cheese lately for a new project – in our fridge at one point we had wheels of Yarg and Cornish Blue and a fat Cheddar truckle. The only question has been what to eat all this cheese with? Fudges biscuits for cheese? Rick Stein’s oat cakes? Toasted slices of Sourdough from Vicky’s Bread?

And now to wash it all down with some wine!

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Cornish Yarg Cheese produced by Lynher Dairies is mild and beautifully covered in nettle leaves. Click here to visit their website.

Cornish Blue Cheese is a multi-award winning creamy mild blue cheese produced by the Cornish Cheese Co - Click here to visit their website. 

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This time it is another beautiful app for the iPad all about the Summertime – with 21 chefs each contributing five recipes each to the app. The Summertime app, developed in association with Ocado will see Great British Chefs donate all proceeds to Action Against Hunger to support the charity’s life-saving work. The app was awarded the coveted Editors Choice in the Apple App Store. Brilliant!

Check it out now.

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…but it seems it does not matter how Australian you can’t BBQ in a downpour.

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Visited a Foie Gras producer to try and get to the bottom of how I feel about eating this super tasty stuff – unfortunately it turned out that we were there at the wrong time of year: the Gavache over, the butchering done.  All of the duck in the area was canned up and ready to eat, so we will have to go back again…  We had a really good chat with the producer who talked about how none of the duck was wasted, the whole bird was used for different products.

It’s all about the Gavage…

In an nutshell, the Gavage (force feeding of corn / nuts) is the thing that seems to be the sticking point – generally the birds are free range and have a happy life up until the month or so of Gavage. The birds are then dispatched, butchered, and canned up.

After a bit of reading when getting back home to Cornwall, I found that I cant shake to connection between this tasty snack and the reality of its production.  Happy to throw a couple of duck breasts on the BBQ though…!

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You can buy their meat online, and the shop is worth a look, if only to have a giggle at the ‘Knob Ends’.

http://www.delifarmcharcuterie.co.uk/shop.php

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I was under pressure on a food shoot recently using my studio lights, and the triggering remote stopped working.
Not to worry, Plan B: I have a spare battery. But this did not fix the problem.
Not to worry, Plan C: I have a spare triggering device. But this did not work either.
Not to worry, Plan D: I have an old school sync cable. But this did not work either.
Not to worry, Plan E: Gaffer tape a small camera flash to the top of the flash head battery.

Worked a treat. Flash heads have since been serviced!

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The blue cheese, mushroom and walnut pie was top notch, a perfect way to celebrate Pie Week!

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I have had the fortune of regularly shooting Nathan Outlaws food for over seven years and over this time I have enjoyed watching his food evolve. Along the way I have had the pleasure of a good solid nibble, but last week we were lucky enough to enjoy the best feed to date.

Feeling smart casual, we booked a table in Seafood and Grill rather than the fine dining restaurant.  With Redas and Pete on the grill, the food was stupidly good.  Simple in its presentation, for me it had echos of our recent munch around Spain, and for Maria the first Oyster that went beyond OK, to be classed as DELICIOUS.

Impeccable service, and thanks to Ian for some pink magic in a dessert glass at the end of the evening.

If I were marooned on a desert island, I would want it to be a Rock, just across from Padstow.

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I had a shot at making it today, with a bit of South West spin – using Saffron Cake.  Looking online there are hundreds of ways to make Torrejas, but being a sweet tooth I opted for the least savory method. Some authentic sounding recipes calls for Piloncillo- a Mexican unrefined sugar, so I used Muscovado.

150 grams Dark Muscovado Sugar
200 ml water
1 vanilla pod
1 star anise
2 cinnamon sticks
1 clove

Add all of the above into a medium pan and simmer uncovered over a low heat for 20 min, then allow to cool.

2 free range eggs
100 ml milk
8 slices of stale bread (or Saffron Cake)

Whisk the eggs and milk together in a bowl. Briefly soak the bread in the eggy mix to coat each side, then fry until golden brown in a non stick pan with a knob of butter.

Place the eggy bread flat on a tray and cover with the spicy syrup, and leave to soak until you can wait no longer.

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It was Easter Sunday, and on the way into Seville we stopped at a road side truck stop cafe to give the boys their second Easter Egg hunt of the day in the sunny beer garden.  After seeing the perfectly weathered red linoleum table we were sat at for our coffee, I was inspired to order ham (ham, more ham!), this time to to photograph – it was the perfect table to photograph the rich red ham on. The delicious nutty fat-on-meat-on-bread made good tucker too!

After squeezing the car into town and eventually finding our apartment in the labyrinth of cobbled streets and myriad of ancient alleyways, we went off for a proper stroll.  After a few hours of battling the pusher through the Easter Crowd (Spain really does do Easter with spirit!) we escaped the crowds and blazing sunshine with a bolt across the river – and into the coolness of a busy tavern.  Our three year old slept in the pusher and we ate with pictures of bull fighters and saints falling off of the walls.  The fare was so simple and so tasty, and the beer was completely welcome.

If you get the chance to go to Seville, go! – stay! – and eat well!

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