Seagulls
Ok, so ordinarily I don’t get excited about seagulls. I call them Pooping Pests. Rats with wings. And less friendly terms. But just after dawn today I was very happy to see them, because seagulls...
Month: December 2019
Here comes the sun
Vingilótë’s seven rooftop solar panels I must say, the sun is truly an awesome thing. Not only does it light and warm the whole world, through the artifice of Victron’s amazing solar panels it...
After the sunset
Crescent moon, low on the horizon. One bright star above it, or maybe a planet. It could be reddish, maybe it’s Mars. Wish I had a star chart. So many stars in the sky! Unimaginable. There’s no...
Merry Christmas!
I would never have thought I’d be celebrating Christmas in the tropics, a thousand miles from land. And yet here we are. Santa managed to find us - he must have great GPS and filled stockings with...
Wim my taste for whisky runs more to the Irish
Wim my taste for whisky runs more to the Irish.
Two secrets of cooking
Two secrets of cooking: Weighing ingredients rather than measuring by volume (I have two Ozeri Touch Professional that read in grams, milliliter, poundscc BBC and ounces, and fluid ounces, and rare...
Assembly of the Beef Wellington
Assembly of the Beef Wellington: FIllo dough, shingled in prosciutto, spread with duxelles, reduced with whisky and cream, rolled with the browned, painted with mustard/horseradish beef, rolled up...
Ingredients to Beef Wellington Center cut tenderloin…
Ingredients to Beef Wellington Center cut tenderloin, the chateaubriand; puff pastry dough; double cream, soy sauce, and Marmite; Welsh single malt aged in Madeira casks; duxelles; hot English...
In case folks missed it
In case folks missed it.
Christmas dinner: marrowbones with toast and Beef Wellington mixe
Christmas dinner: marrowbones with toast and Beef Wellington mixed fingerling potatoes fried up with shallots and thyme and pancetta (there's thyme in the duxelles layer and I use pancetta as the...