Idiazabal Cheese and St. George's Mushrooms Flan with Berries.

Did you know that you can use mushrooms for desserts?

Ingredients for 24 portions:

- 12 Eggs
- 1 liter of whole milk
- 100ml of cream
- Idiazábal Smoked cheese 250g
- St. George's mushrooms  150g
- 24 tablespoons of sugar (two per egg)
- Sugar and water to make caramel
- 150 g of sugar and 150 ml of water  to make sugar syrup
- Mint, berries, crème anglaise

Abastos 2.0, The Restaurant I Miss in London

Join us in Table Crowd and become a Viander

We've just started our own crowd in Table Crowd.
If you are in London you can join us to be a member of our crowd.
We will be sharing dinners, cooking events and seminars.

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QUAIL EGGS IN POTATO NEST WITH BOLETES

Delicious and crispy potatoes with all the flavour of wild mushrooms and quail eggs.

Ingredients:

Bolete mushrooms
Quail eggs
Potatoes
Garlic
Olive oil
Salt

Mushrooms manipulation tips

A good video with tips about mushroom manipulation from allrecipes.com guys

Here we find some basic advice:

- Always buy your mushrooms from a reliable source, picking wild mushrooms should only be done by an expert mushroom hunter

- Don't close the mushrooms in a plastic bag, place them in a paper bag or covered with kitchen roll paper in a tray and keep them in the fridge

- Don't wash mushrooms until you are ready to use them

- You can wet wipe  or brush up the soil from almost any kind of mushrooms

- When rehydrating dehydrated mushrooms don't waste washing water, use it as a base for stocks and stews

Hope you find this tips useful when dealing with mushrooms in the kitchen

The Truth About Corn-Fed Beef

1945 Vintage Video. How a Butcher Cuts Beef

I have found this amazing 1945 vintage educational video containing interesting information on meat cutting.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did, I love this kind of stuff.

Mushroom research explores lower cancer risk

An interview with leading cancer researcher Dr Shiuan from the City of Hope. The interview explores the latest research which examine the link  between consuming mushrooms and lowering the risk of breast cancer.

Mushrooms. A Journey of Discovery

A very interesting video showing what research has achieved in last years about benefits of eating mushrooms

Spain On the Road Again, Pilgrimage to Galicia

Mark's moods swings and insatiable appetite have the road trippers stopping often as they head north to Galicia. While in Ribera del Duero wine country, Mario grills milk-fed lamb in a vineyard. While staying at a traditional county inn, Mario's competitive edge emerges and he and Gwyneth race Mark and Claudia on the Camino de Santiago, a historic pilgrimage route. Back at the inn, Mario and Gwyneth cook dinner while waiting for Mark and Claudia to get back.

Rick Stein Visits my Homeland Galicia

Dangers of Processed Meat and Beef Products (All Jacked Up)

Another Vintage Video

Spain On the Road Again, Coasting Along in Galicia

Gwyneth, Mario, Mark, and Claudia get down and dirty with the local mariscadoras, digging for some of the world's best shellfish. Later Mario grills up an impromptu feast of lobsters and razor clams paired with the acclaimed Albariño wine. Next the road trippers head inland for wood-fired empanadas. After a day on the water, Mario and Claudia prepare octopus, Galician style, and wash it down with a flaming, boozy beverage

Controversial cows

     What do you think about this?

Octopus, Galician Style - Mark Bittman

Santiago de Compostela

A food tour of the Galician world heritage site.
A Spanish gastronomic delight.

Bourdain in Madrid

Baked Galician-style Scallops

What do London Underground stops taste like?

Man who can 'taste' words creates flavour map of the Tube after visiting every stop during 49-year project.
"Baker Street is lovely. The best way to describe it is crusty and sweet, like jam roly-poly but slightly burnt. It has got loads of different tastes and textures. I love getting off there."

This is the ultimate level in sensorial pleasure, yummy !!

Check the whole article in The Telegraph

 And here you have a BBC interview with James Wannerton:

The Vegetable Orchestra

Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe.

Collecting Goose Barnacles in Galicia