These are the exercise of both my culinary skills and passion for teaching, in the hope of raising the quality of modern European cooking in the Indian home kitchen, whilst championing the small & intimate sit down & served dinner party format that advances interesting dialogue, cultivated debate and enduring friendship … do try your hand at these recipes, for they are easy yet impressive, and above all delicious!
A Savory Blue Cheese-cake Hors D’oeuvre
This week I am going to teach you a dish that is not of my own creation, but one that I stumbled across some years ago in a magazine, when I was living in London and attending the Cordon Bleu Cooking school …
A Hung Yoghurt ‘Bocconcini’ & 3 textured Tomato Caprese Salad
This week, I am going to teach you how to make a very pretty, darn delicious and, believe it or not, healthy little dish, for I have not been able to convince many of my guests that mozzarella (ordinarily the principal ingredient of this assembly) is not in itself fattening.
The ‘Upper Class’ Smoked Salmon Hors d’oeuvre
This week, I am going to teach you how to assemble a ‘small plate’, rather than cook it, with the exception of a simple little sauce that serves to both elevate and distinguish the assembly, which as mentioned above, is an ‘upper class’ smoked salmon hors d’oeuvre.
The Modern French ‘Millefeuille’
This week, I am going to teach you how to re-produce in your very own kitchen at home in India, in the most simple way possible, a modern French ‘Millefeuille’.