Heidi Roberts Kitchen Talk

[...] review a day course at The Etheringtons Butchery Academy in Cornwall.  Great idea but how about Mr R does the course and I take the photos and write the blog!  Great was the response and so the [...]

[...] and must use sail power and hand pulled dredges to harvest the oysters from October to March. Mr R and I made the 5 hour journey to Falmouth in Cornwall to take part in this year's festival. We [...]

[...] offer was initially for a cup of tea, then became a quick 'buttie' but ended up a BBQ so I asked Mr R to meet me there as well. Might as well make a real family occassion out of it! Anyway their [...]

[...] Express opened in Soho on the corner of Wardour Street and Rupert Court and is still there today. Mr R was more than happy to accompany me this time to the St Albans branch. I started my evening with [...]

[...] Earlier this year, on my birthday, Mr R and I went to Covent Garden and reviewed a fab upstairs bar called The Print Room.  Downstairs in the restaurant called 21 [...]

[...] for two or four people ready to collect. If you are in Bedford Street just down from Covent Garden Underground Station and looking for that special French taste there is a table waiting for you! [...]

[...] summer. I was also asked to review The Print Room, a popular bar overlooking the square at Covent Garden (open daily from 17:00-01:00) that Saturday night (my birthday) and Mr R agreed to meet me [...]

[...] long ago I was invited to discover the menu at the newly opened restaurant of PAUL at their Covent Garden patisserie. It was a great discovery for somewhere to get a great coffee, fresh pastry and [...]

[...] eggs but two of the recipes I have grown to love are listed below along with a little bit of Tabasco sauce to help them grow up into more adult meals. I have been challenged by Tabasco sauces to give [...]

[...] a tin of chopped tomatoes, 2T tomato puree and 2T basil pesto, 2tsp chilli paste or 1tsp Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper and cooked for a further 5 minutes. I then blitzed the sauce and [...]

[...] of the velvetty chocolate! All of the recipes were made under the watchful eye of Gary (a Tabasco sauce) and the staff at The Cooker School whilst we worked in teams. When all the cooking was done, [...]

[...] ’t been to Cornwall since 1982, a very long time ago! I was invited to review the Falmouth Oyster Festival recently. Although it is quite a long way to go for us, Mr R and I needed a break [...]

[...] for it when we fly away to some far away location. As we entered the marquee for the Falmouth Oyster Festival recently, my eye caught the charity raffle display. It wasn’t the case of Skinners beer [...]

[...] really friendly, the local food fantastic and we decided that we would attend the Falmouth Oyster Festival again next year.  Want to come with us!! Many thanks to everyone for all the [...]

[...] the photos and write the blog!  Great was the response and so the planning started.  The Falmouth Oyster Festival was coming up in October and I thought it would be a great weekend to do both. We [...]

[...] such a long time I thought that they would be the perfect thing to make with this week's old sourdough starter.  I used Vanessa's recipe to make them. I followed the recipe except where it called for [...]

[...] baker. I drove home, down the M1, thinking about all of the things I could make with the sourdough starter we were sent home with! You can give someone a gift certificate to attend one of Vanessa's [...]

[...] I seem to really be stepping out of my comfort zone and adding the spent sourdough starter from keeping my sourdough starter alive, to my baking since I attended Vanessa Kimbell's [...]

[...] then added two pots of Lake District Cooking Sauce - tomato and basil. Further added some tomato puree and a couple of tinned tomatoes.  Simmer for 20-25 minutes and serve on top of spaghetti with [...]

[...] Chipotle Pepper Sauce. At this point I added in a Knorr Paprika Flavour Pot, 4 Tablespoons of tomato puree along with a Knorr Chicken Stock Pot and approx 250ml of water. The chicken meal seems to be [...]

[...] want to) tomatoes and cook for about 5 minutes.  I added a tin of chopped tomatoes, 2T tomato puree and 2T basil pesto, 2tsp chilli paste or 1tsp Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper and cooked for a [...]

Following the success of San Carlo Cicchetti  in Manchester the third London restaurant has opened in Wellington Street, Covent Garden in London. In [...]

When I first worked in London I would walk along Berwick Street in Soho to get my fruit and vegetables from the market. This market had been there for [...]

Earlier this year, on my birthday, Mr R and I went to Covent Garden and reviewed a fab upstairs bar called The Print Room.  Downstairs in the restaur [...]