Recent content by mwolfenden

Just a few of the dishes we have cooked.

Thanks for the advice! It was last night and went very well thanks! Clean plates all round which has to be a good sign! Will post pictures onto my photo album on here!

Hi! I'm serving chocolate brownies as a desert at a small dinner party. I will most probably make them the day before but I want to serve them warm at the meal. Perhaps this is a silly question, but do people have a favourite way of warming their brownies without drying them out? I also want to...

Thanks for the suggestion, I will try the Waitrose near me - although if I can get the shells to make the stock for myself I'm happy to do that. Do fishmongers usually do the de-shelling etc themselves (so they'd be able to give me some for the stock)? I'm under the impression that my local...

Thanks for all your thoughts! The kitchen isn't open - but I'm happy to be cooking while the guests are eating, as they aren't really going to be my guests anyway - I'm more just cooking for my girlfriend and her guests, so the risotto shouldn't be too much of an issue. In any case I plan to...

Thanks for your quick replies! I certainly agree that with the fish and the sauce hot and the salad really cold it'l be awesome. Mmm the thought of that hot-fudge-sunday sounds pretty good too! Got the trout just from the local fishmonger - it's farmed unfortunately - nowhere has wild trout...

Hi everyone I'm new to the forum, but it looks a fantastic place with lots of enthusiastic helpful people so I thought I'd make the most of it! I'm a relatively new cooking enthusiast so am very much on a steep learning curve but I feel like I'm slowly getting somewhere! As part of my gifts for...

Hi everyone I'm new to this forum so hope I'm posting this in the right place. I'm a reasonably new cooking enthusiast and am loving trying new recipies etc and seeing what I can do! I have a bit of a question about one I've just tried though: The recipe is a seared fillet of Trout served on a...