to think Heston Blumenthal - just roast a bloody chicken fgs you are not big and you are not clever

[SuSylvester]

with your stupid meals.

One hundred and fifty pounds

LIME GROVE
Nitro Poached Green Tea and Lime Mousse
RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO
Pommery Grain Mustard Ice Cream
JELLY OF QUAIL, CRAYFISH CREAM
Chicken Liver Parfait, Oak Moss and Truffle Toast
SNAIL PORRIDGE
Jabugo Ham, Shaved Fennel
ROAST FOIE GRAS
Rhubarb, Braised Konbu and Crab Biscuit
MOCK TURTLE SOUP (c.1850)
"Mad Hatter Tea"
"SOUND OF THE SEA"

SALMON POACHED IN LIQUORICE
Artichokes, Vanilla Mayonnaise, Golden Trout Roe and Manni Olive Oil
POWDERED ANJOU PIGEON (c.1720)
Blood Pudding and Confit of Umbles
TAFFETY TART (c.1660)
Caramelized Apple, Fennel, Rose and Candied Lemon
The "BFG"
Kirsch Ice Cream and the smell of the Black Forest
WHISK(E)Y WINE GUMS

"LIKE A KID IN A SWEET SHOP"

any menu with fennel in it is shit

Boak

I really don't like Fennel.

me neither
nor pears oddly

Coriander is disgusting and seems to be everywhere I've been recently.

Also innocuous sounding dishes and you take a bite and nearly die because they have so much chilli in them.

Pears are gritty

Me and my boys love him, sorry!

He's just like a big school boy experimenting with food.

We met him after he'd been on at the Cheltenham Science Festival and he was lovely to my DS.

I wouldn't eat any of it apart from the desserts though, that house looked awsome.

Pears are my favourite fruit above any other. By miles.

Pears poached in red wine or port. Luvverly.

Pears with vanilla icecream and chocolate sauce and a couple of fan wafers (pears belle helene). Stick that on your Fat Duck menu Hesty.

I have the grave misfortune to be married to a man who has actually 'done some heston's'

He made the black forest thingy.
It took 3 days and yes he did take the vacuum cleaner into the kitchen, placed the chocolate mousse into vacuum storage bag and sucked.I PML.

he also roasted beef joint for 24 hours

he also put batter into a soda syphon and almost blew my head off when the top exploded, covering the entire kitchen and me
with batter and putting 2inch dent in the ceiling.

he also did the spag bol recipe.it took 48 hours

sadly my DH and DS worship him, and he sent my DS a lovely response to a fan letter.

(i did think i should name change for this as it reveals a little too much about life chez iwastooearly , but what the heck, we're not judgemntal here are we )

I personally think he is a mad genius but wish i HAD NEVER BOUGHT THE BOOKS for DH.

BTW DH also cooks normal lovely food every weekend so i suppose it's OK to indulge his wierd obsession every once in a while.

that's so funny Iwastooearly I've only thought about doing one of his recipes, I just don't think substituting works in this case does it?

I can honestly say the whole episodes have left a long and lasting impression on me, but they were very, very funny.

The only thing i learnt from whole exercise was to stay out of the way, and that star anise adds a something special to spag bol.

I dread bank holidays as now the shout goes out between DS and DH 'Let's do a heston'

I just duck and cover and hide witha good book.

Say what you will

The man's a genuis

Think you need to get the picture of a chef or someone who eats or cooks for pleasure out of your head. He doesn't do normal or anything you could ever replicated.

He deconstructs food.

The man's a genius. Which makes him both uncomfortable and inimitable

dolly
sorry DH has already ordered them

OK well I'm putting my chicken in to roast NOW for the bank holiday, cutting the time short I know but what the hell....

Don't forget the meat thermometer and have you brined it?

God, I wish I didn't know that

must get out more...

the brine will keep me occupied for at least a week I reckon

what was the spag bol like? tempted to try doing it if it's worth it

or can I just come over to yours?

"he also did the spag bol recipe.it took 48 hours"

Hi Dolly

It was ok, nice, not amazing or out of this world, and certainly not worth the effort of cooking the oniony bit seperatly for hours, and hours and hours.I seem to rememeber DH cooking the meat in milk too.

DH makes his chips too, which involves boiling, chilling, pre-frying and frying.
IMO they taste better than McCains but about the same as Sainsbury's taste the difference.

I do get a bit nervous if ever I go away alone for the weekend as I wouldn't be at all surprised to come home and find a bloody great tandoor pit dug in the middle of the garden or that he's installed a hot tub for the sole purpose of cooking a whole pig.

Just realised that my DH is a nutter
am heading over to relationships thread right away.

Him and Gregg Wallace are fat head twins.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

the way greg wallace eats of a spoon makes me gag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do like watching him but only as pure entertainment, not a cookery show. I saw a Christmas one once when he made something that smelt of leather and pipe smoke or some such nonsense. One whiff would have made me throw up.

Thomcat went to the Fat Duck but I don't know if she cried.

In defence of the boiling the can of condensed milk for millionaires shortbread though, you can boil several cans in advance and store them in the cupboard. And then just eat the caramel from the can with a spoon. You can also use it for banoffee pie.

Does anyone else go to London Bridge every day? Because there's a huge poster with his mug on it staring down at you there... for waitrose I think..

Hi Iwastooearly

Your DH obviously doesn't realise you're not supposed to be cooking this stuff at home!

My exh used to cook occaisionally, always something that took at least 3 hours, costing the same as a months shopping and needed regular poking and prodding. We'd be eating at 11pm sometimes, dinner guests gone WAY past eating by that time! (and exdh drunk as a skunk!)

I do have a picture of you coming home to find the house full of dry ice and test tubes one day though, with a pig cooking nicely in the garden!

Yes sympathies as my DH doesn't realise that cookery in Sunday Supplements at Christmas is meant to be fiction.

So one year he actually did the thing where you stuff a small bird into a bigger one, and then into a bigger one etc etc etc until you end up with shoving it all inside the turkey. Or goose. Or vulture - forget now what they all were.

He also boils pigs heads for hours. I made the mistake of looking inside the vat one day...