Home Visit!

Home Visit!

I love working, but sometimes it is time to go home...I miss home so much - more than chocolate when I try to go on a diet for one day! Young people like me sometimes don't realize how much they love and treasure home before they leave it. I always look forwards to coming back and one of the reasons why is the readily available kitchen sanctuary.

In Brussels and outside work I can't afford much more than a pan and cutting board since I always tend to be on the move. When I come home I have everything from my mum's - from kitchen aid various bowls, weights and precious recipes. Outside home weighting is the biggest problem I try to fight while attacking pastry recipes. Endless conversions are not the best solution, but the only one I found yet. 

My photos are an example of one of my home feasts. Our menu consisted of pheasant roasted on vegetable and port wine sauce with gnocchi. Dessert was made in honor of the availability of a precise weight - peach tart based on Mary Berry's recipe. Result was absolutely delicious, so I would definitely recommend to give it a go. Everything was just perfect. I even made special table set up with candles, tuned Argentinian music and opened a bottle of wine that had cork in one peace and was actually made of cork.

Pheasant Roast in the making ...

First attempt on gnocchi - Italians do forgive me!

Bottle of wine with cork in one peace...

There is a hidden story between me and Mary Berry. After watching The UK's Best Baker show I was trying to find out who is Mary Berry. I apologize for not knowing before! I went into a bookshop and looked through almost all English cook book authors and what a surprise was waiting for me! I found a new version of a cook book we already had at home. I have been using Mary Berry's recipes since I was ten years old and didn't know!

French Peach and Almond Glaze Tart

Apart from that English cook book section in the shop w, to my disappointment, as very limited. I hate the fact that it is usually only Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson that make it as regulars on the shelves in Czech Republic. However, I believe we are starting to follow the global trend of food fetish anyway.