08/12/2023
The Cure!
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If you love to eat but don’t want to cook, then come to Jane’s Kitchen for supper or dinner. I'm Jane, and every week I make a different, tasty supper menu from fresh ingredients ready for you to heat and eat. If you want to enjoy a meal with friends without the hassle I can prepare a bespoke dinner party for you to share. At Jane’s Kitchen you will find simple, delicious food freshly made from great ingredients sourced locally or from independent suppliers wherever possible.
The Cure!
My regular students are such competent cooks now, gaining confidence each week. And they’ve learned helpful little cooking hacks, like deglazing a pan to add flavour and, if necessary, to rescue slightly scorched ingredients.
Lots of fun making Christmassy cupcakes with my Y9 students. There was sugar. And one handed egg cracking. And sugar.
I always tell my students to read the recipe before they start. That way they can be sure they have everything they need and be ready to go. Didn’t read this recipe until after I started making it for supper on a chilly winter evening and realised it was a cold salad 😳☺️🙃Still yummy - peanut noodles.
It has been a chicken curry kind of week. While not the most sophisticated, the point of this dish is accessibility, so it needs to be quick & easy to cook-as well as delicious. It also introduces the idea of blending your own spices to get the flavour you like. And adding vegetables!
Chicken curry cooked at eaten with gusto!
It was bread week in the teaching kitchen-we made cornbread and flatbread. Both were pretty popular.
Cooking pasta with my DofE crew. Also consolidating knife skills.
It’s been ages since I’ve been able to join in cooking a community meal. Today we were and were lucky to have lots of beautiful fresh produce. We made pumpkin & coconut daal, a tomato, pepper & bean stew, loads of salads and will be serving everything up with fresh bread. Good to be back!
Having fun experimenting with stuffed paratha which I will make with some of my students in a couple of weeks. Great recipe with potato by
Everyone working on their knife skills while cooking chicken chow mein.
See one, do one, teach one. Love working with these students who actively provide support to each other.
Happy evening making quesadillas and salsa with my DofE crew.
Test kitchen moment making beautiful, crispy (not terribly authentic) warmly spiced pea & potato samosas. Using filo pastry and baking rather than deep frying makes them more accessible for teaching.
There was a lot of love for the sticky ginger cakes this week. And there was excellent clearing up at the end of the session. This is also an essential kitchen skill.
Week 1 of a new cooking skills course for younger students who are doing their DofE Bronze Award. Several successful batches of blueberry muffins were baked.
Our boy was home for the weekend and there has been much feasting. While I’m not normally one for a big Sunday lunch we indulged him with chicken, roasties, cabbage, carrots and the most amazing gravy (thank you for that .harms).
Practising knife skills and making burgers .
Clearly it is pastry week in Jane’s Kitchen. I am planning to make these Jamaican beef patties with with some of my students and thought I should remind myself of timings and quantities. I was delighted with how they turned out - the pastry was thin, crispy and full of flavour - the filling was soft, rich and spicy. I will post about how we get on in the teaching kitchen.
I think I’ve said before that I am definitely not a pastry chef. But here I am giving it a go, using up some aging apples in the process. While I don’t think I would have got a handshake from Paul Hollywood there were clean plates all round.
While drinking cocktails and eating eating beignets with caramelised apples with is not the only reason to go to Edinburgh, it is definitely a good one.
Does all that stainless steel make this post a bit too industrial? Maybe, but it struck me that I hadn’t shouted out my amazing Thursday students. Life may not be easy but cooking like this is an achievement to be celebrated.
The cooking highlight of my week was when one of my students surprised herself by enjoying the quesadilla she made in class. Sometimes preparing ingredients in a different way is enough to change how they are perceived.
Pumpkin in its final form. Cheesy, slightly spicy, topped with toasted, crunchy crumbs. It’s deeply comforting on a chilly autumn evening. The orzo gives it a air of risotto, but it’s really just a cheats take on mac ‘n’ cheese. Check out the recipe on the endlessly fabulous
Practising pakora which I cooked with some of my students last week. They were met with great suspicion (perhaps it was the carrot and cauliflower) but when tasted, received a cautious thumbs up. Result!
Feeling autumnal. Cooking this beautiful pumpkin from the allotment. It really is that colour!!! Simply stunning.
There was a lot of love for keema & pea curry yesterday.
We love a one pot meal, here it is nduja beans with cavalo nero. Very easy, cool up some nduja, add some chopped onion & garlic, then a couple of tins of beans, chicken stock and simmer. Squish up some of the beans to make it thick and creamier, add some greens. Finally taste and balance the flavour with salt, pepper, lemon and perhaps a little harissa. Serve it in bowls with crusty bread.
Look at the colour of that rhubarb! Destined for cake.
The last of the allotment tomatoes - they have been absolutely spectacular!
Back in the teaching kitchen with three different groups of students. This week we practiced knife skills, cooked pasta and baked muffins.
Back in the teaching kitchen this week. Quick recipe check before tomorrow’s class.
Back home, feet on the ground, working today but still thinking about Crete - the land of milk & honey - yoghurt & honey to be specific. Like ambrosia and nectar they are food of the Gods!
Boys in charge tonight.
Pork chops so huge they could come from the Caledonian boar. Grilled to perfection. And that view!
Because beauty is more than skin deep. And the perfect orange is not necessarily orange or perfect looking.
There is also mezze at sunset.
Eating aubergine wasn’t the only reason I wanted to come to Greece. But it was definitely up there!
Loving Crete!!!! Octopus carpaccio was fabulous.
Allotment courgette (again) but joined by a fab mix of allotment tomatoes too. I saw this dish posted by and was completely inspired to make a ‘Ratatouille’ ratatouille
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