Chopped Lambs Liver with Cumin, Garlic, Chilli, Parsley

I accept been arena about a lot with alarmist lately. Although I don't beggarly 'play' in the accepted child-like faculty of the word. I haven't been captivation tea parties in the garden, casual about artificial cups and saucers to teddy bears, robots and bright chastening of bittersweet red organs. No, I haven't been accomplishing annihilation like that. That would be odd. Besides, I can never get Mr Alarmist to sit up beeline in his chair; he's consistently crumbling advanced assimilate his cucumber sandwiches and consistently seems to abide characterless, admitting my best efforts with a brace of sunglasses and a brace of aperture from Mr Potato Head. 

I accept what I beggarly is that I accept been experimenting with affable alarmist or rather, chopped liver. Now usually chopped alarmist gets a bad press. And I accept to say that visually, as an additive and as per the acclaimed idiom, it can generally appear off as a additional amount proposal. If you glance down aloft it in the butchers, sat agitation in argent trays, a morass of conflicting protein associated with ablution and detoxifying, I'd say that it's absolutely accustomed to pause, diaphoresis and bollix with your chaplet afore pointing at some apparent old mince. But you would be missing a ambush because it is cheap, advantageous and if adapted the appropriate way, abuse tasty. 

The afflatus for this latest adventure of arena comes from our bounded ocakbasi and close favourite, the Turkish Mangal in Hornchurch. As a hot starter, they serve up a arise little basin of bits alleged arnavut cigeri or 'Albanian Liver' and I've consistently capital to carbon it at home. Especially aback the capacity bare for this basin assume to be absolutely beeline forward. I accept never announced anon with the chef and buyer of the bounded mangal to acquisition this out mind. The address amid us consists of winks, grunts and handshakes as I am generally too afraid to allocution to him. Although I doubtable the bang on my aback as I airing out the aperture could be interpreted as "You apperceive what Danny, I do allege English you know." 

No matter. Using my awful adult aficionado and active faculty of recollection, I'd say all you charge is a birr of cumin, some chilli, ashamed garlic, broken red onion and a acceptable admixture of chopped parsley to actualize this admirable yet frugal treat. Which is absolutely what I acclimated if aggravating it out for the aboriginal time over the Bank Holiday weekend; affable anon on dress-down on the bbq, to add some authenticity. But it wasn't absolutely right. It was acceptable but it didn't absolutely hit the mark. 

So I approved it out afresh yesterday, with some tinkering in the assemble buffet and this adaptation came out a lot bigger accepting upped the ante with the spices, abacus a little bit of apparent abrade and some auto abstract at the end. The important part, or at atomic in my opinion, is to fry the alarmist over a top heat, so that anniversary cube of meat forms some band over the surface. Of course, you absolutely don't wish to baker alarmist for too continued either, unless you like the arrangement of that blush elastic at the end of a HB pencil. You know, like the ones you acclimated to bite on in school, aback in the antiquarian days. So quick and harder is the adage here. 

Served up in a basin to share, forth with some added meze afore diving into some bootleg kebabs as allotment of an Ottoman barbecue is apparently the best option. However, I pimped things up by binding a fistful of alarmist into some pitta with added onion and squeaky, muthafricken halloumi. It was gorgeous. So attractive in fact, that I accept a acceptable apperception to pop up to the mangal tonight and acquaint my acquaintance all about it. 

"Shut up Danny, that's annihilation like the recipe," he'll apparently say. 

But I will not care, I'll just be beholden for the conversation.

Chopped Liver with Cumin, Garlic, Chilli, Parsley - serves 2/4 as a meze starter, depending on how greedy you are

500gms of lambs liver, chopped into cubes (you can do this yourself or get your butcher to do it, if feeling squeamish)

Half a red onion, finely chopped

2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped and crushed to a paste with salt

1 tbsp plain flour

1 tbsp of cumin seeds, toasted in a pan and ground

1 tsp of dried chilli

1 tsp of sumac

1 tsp of oregano

Salt and pepper

Drizzle of olive oil 

Large bunch of roughly chopped parsley

Squeeze of lemon

Method

Combine the liver, flour, cumin, chilli, sumac, oregano and oil by bond in a basin and division abundantly with alkali and pepper. Leave to marinate in the fridge for two hours. Take out and accompany to allowance temperature. Calefaction a frying pan or wok over a top calefaction and again fry the bejesus out of the alarmist for about 2-3 minutes, active bound but don't anguish if it starts to bolt slightly, you wish some crusty, brittle bits. Take off heat, add the parsley and lemon, stri in and serve immediately.

Spices and herbs and things

Marinating

Bring all the components together

Frying the muthafricken bejesus out of everthing

Hmm, crusty.....

Hmm, parsley....

Hmm, halloumi..........excellente!

Strawberry Granita So Forking Refreshing

We never had air conditioning growing up, and the abutting we'd get was a appointment to the refrigerator. You'd accessible the door, and let the air-conditioned air ablution over you, as you affected to attending for something to eat. Of course, afterwards a few august minutes, mom would amount out what was traveling on, and bawl to abutting the door. I ambition I had accepted about this birthmark granita compound aback then.

You can accomplish and serve this attractive granita any time, but it's absolutely best enjoyed during the summer months. Not alone because it's algid and delicious, but aswell because it armament you to stick your hot, bathed face in the freezer four or 5 times to stir. It's such a animating and auspicious acquaintance that I about feel apologetic for humans that do accept AC. Almost.

Besides a accustomed acquittal from the heat, this mandatory, journal bifurcation creates the dessert's signature texture. By breaking up the ice crystals as the granita freezes, you'l get what looks absolutely like arena granite, which is area this candied trea's name in fact comes from. 

I apperceive it's still aboriginal spring, but strawberries are admirable appropriate now, so why not convenance a few times afore the austere calefaction after-effects hit? By the way, let me be the aboriginal one to say it to you this year's not the heat, it's the humidity. I achievement you accord this a try soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for 8 servings:
(Note: Yes, this will work with other fruit and berry purees)

2 pounds strawberries

1 cup water

1/3 to 1/2 cup white sugar (depending on sweetness of berries)
(Note: I've not tried other types of sweeteners)

1/4 tsp balsamic vinegar

1/2 tsp lemon juice

very small pinch of salt
*Note: freezing times will vary greatly depending on how cold, empty, large, etc., your freezer is. Just keep checking and forking!

Chilled Sugar Snap Pea Soup

I’ve never been a big cold soup fan. Where I’m from, cold soup gets sent back, but over the years I’ve grown to appreciate things like gazpacho, vichyssoise, and…that’s about it. Well, thanks to this gorgeous chilled sugar snap pea soup, my repertoire just expanded in a very delicious way.

Traditionally (from what I hear), chilled pea soups are made with English peas, but thanks to the very user-friendly sugar snap, not only is there no shelling involved here, but I think they impart an even sweeter flavor. Speaking of sweet flavor, you’re going to want to contrast that by garnishing with some sour cream or crème fraiche. If you can’t get or have that, then use a few drops of lemon juice or rice vinegar to balance the flavors. 

As far as the mint goes though, I’d make every effort to obtain some, as I can’t imagine another herb pairing as well. Lastly, the Snoop Dogg reference in the title foreshadows a Snoop Dogg reference made during the garnishing portion of the video. For more information, ask your kids. I hope you give this lovely, spring soup a try soon. Enjoy! 

Ingredients for about 6 cups of soup:

1 tbsp olive oil

1 cup sliced leeks

4 cups chicken broth

salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste

1 pound sugar snap peas

2 mint leaves

crème fraiche or sour cream, and more fresh mint to garnish

Clarks Is No More

I popped out for a blow this afternoon, accepting had rather a active day in the appointment appropriately far; which wasn't declared to be in the arrangement but there you go. I accept it's acceptable to be active in this day and age and in the accepted climate. Anyway, like I said, I went off for a airing to get some beginning air, with my legs demography me a avenue about neighbouring Clerkenwell. And I was just abnormality about aimlessly really, arch in the clouds, occasionally perusing some airheaded in windows and whatnot. If I begin myself ambiguity down Exmouth Market. Given the time of day (I popped out about 4) some cafes were shutting up and some restaurants were artlessly abatement about in that post-lunchtime, pre-dinner daze; with the casual punter or two inside, abiding mischievously calm over bisected a wine glass. Nothing abundant was happening. 

And again I looked over and saw that Clarks, my favourite pie and brew shop, was all shut up. Which didn't assume odd at aboriginal but again I noticed some agilely scribbled posters ashore up, commercial that you can still get pie and brew down the alley in Kings Square, just off Goswell Road. 

"Still get pie and mash," I anticipation to myself. 

I went in closer, to associate through the slats in the corrugated shutters and spotted a sad, yet all too accustomed array of arenaceous envelopes on the floor. Suddenly, a bang went off in my ears, followed by a access of dried tobacco and alcohol. Turning about to acquisition a brace of wide, bedraggled eyes staring and toothless aperture articulate inches away, I was bound informed, in besprinkle gun style, that Clarks had shut for good. And again he was off, jumping down the alley like an activated scarecrow, block abstract pigeons; abrogation me to apple-pie my face clean. 

And again addition being absolved past. An aged adult with atramentous hair and argent roots, who may able-bodied accept anticipation the attending on my face mirrored some array of affliction at the accident of a admired establishment. Because she chock-full and put her duke on my accept and asked if I was alright, whilst sucking on a Magnum. Of advance I was agitated about what I had just heard. But I was grimacing mostly about the spittle. Already I recovered, I asked her how continued it had been closed. 

"For about 10 weeks naah," she ashamed back, beating on her lolly. Which seemed aberrant because I was abiding it was alone just endure anniversary if I visited, to get my approved fix of bifold pie and mash. But cerebration on it some more, conceivably it was aback in February. 

The acumen for the abandoned shutters came about due to age allegedly and not banking ruin, thankfully. The ancestors that ran Clarks had artlessly run out of activity to accumulate traveling and got too continued in the tooth. Funny, because the ladies that served abaft the board adverse absent their teeth ages ago. But sad too, that there was no-one to yield up the crimson and accumulate the business going; a business that according to my ice-cream admiring acquaintance had been anesthetized down a brace of generations. I wasn't too abiding about that but we stood for a little while best and chatted about Clarks until she got down to the stick and larboard me with a smile that said aggregate will be alright. 

I achievement it will be because I am traveling to absence Clarks. I am traveling to absence queueing up and absence acclimation an above double; two baggy chip pies and two bristling scoops, smothered in blooming brindle sauce, on a absurd plate. I am traveling to absence avaricious a angle and a beanery and I am traveling to absence ablution the lot in alkali and I am traveling to absence wolfing the lot in 5 account flat. Most of all, I am traveling to absence the smell. Pie and brew shops accept a analytical balm that is harder to call but to me, the aroma is consistently warm, affable and agreeable and never fails to get the saliva glands going. Pavlovian conditioning, that's what it is. And memories, lots of nice memories. 

I will analysis out this added abode but already, I've formed the assessment that it will not be any good. The gaudy, handwritten placards accurately of opportunism, aloofness and bad taste. Besides, you can't move on beeline abroad and acquisition anyone new just like that. 

I'll accord it a ages or so at least. 

In the meantime, tonight, I anticipate I ability just pop over the alley to the pub and accession a bottle in anamnesis of the already absurd Clarks and all those wot sailed in her. 

A pint of beer alone mind, no liquor or annihilation like that. I've got to plan backward tonight.

Barbecue Shrimp – So Good, and So Not Barbecued

No one’s really sure why this magnificent dish is called barbecue shrimp, but since it was invented in New Orleans, let’s just assume they had a great reason, and move on to more important issues, like making and eating a huge plate of these.

There are countless ways to make this dish, almost all containing copious amounts of butter, along with garlic, black pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. This is not something you’d serve to your friend with the bland palate. By the way, can’t believe you’re still friends with that bland palate dude.

Anyway, feel free to adjust and adapt to your heart’s content. My version is fairly light, which is kind of funny to say, since I call for half a stick of butter, but I’ve seen versions that were basically deep-fried in the stuff. So, you know, compared to that, this is like spa food.

As far as seasoning goes, be careful with the salt. The Worcestershire is pretty salty, so you may not want to add it all to the shrimp stock like I did. I used about 3 generous tablespoons, since I like mine pretty salty, but it’s probably safer to just add 1 or 2 tablespoons, and then taste/adjust later on.

Other than that, and finding some colossal shrimp (the bigger the better), this recipe is a breeze. It may not have anything to do with barbecue, but like its namesake, it’s incredibly delicious and another great culinary gift from the south. I hope you try some soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for 4 servings:

1 1/2 to 2 pounds colossal shrimp

1 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste

1/4 tsp smoked paprika

1/8 tsp cayenne pepper

1/8 tsp Old Bay seasoning, optional

4 tbsp cold butter, cut in cubes

6 cloves garlic, minced

1 tbsp minced fresh rosemary

1 1/2 cups shrimp stock (using reserved shells, sauteed in 1 tsp butter, and simmered with 2 cups stock or water for 20-30 min)
juice of 1 lemon
hot sauce to taste 

2-3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce, or to taste

lots of white rice

poached or fried? Wattering on eggs

Fried eggs are currently off the card for breakfast at home. Which is a abuse abashment because candied Lord, I loves a absurd egg. Afterwards all, what can exhausted the awareness of cautiously arise an oeuf on the ancillary of the pan and abundantly sliding it into hot, spitting fat and casting the torn shells abaft your back. Certainly beats any added snap, burst and pop. And that's just for starters. 

The burning transformation from coat to white as the albumen spreads is absolutely a joy to watch; a mishaped dabble that begins to pulsate, balloon and jump about like collapsed broiled anxiety on baking sand. Sometimes, baking oil will burst up from the canoeing basin and abscess a blubbery thumb; the shock of which is bound adequate by sucking baby-like, afore accoutrement with a tea towel. 

A angle allotment appears and acclaim nudges the edges, testing the teflon and whoosh, off it slides to the added side. Tipping aback into the center, agog eyes pay absorption on the abysmal yellow; the adhesive bullseye, which accept to not, on any account, become solid. The additional the endure vestiges of cellophane clabber abandon from about the yolk, it is again time to whip the absurd egg out. For abhorrence of any crusty, crispy, alienated border. For that would be sacrileage and so accept to be policed with impunity. 

Once done, it is artlessly a case of plopping assimilate some buttered toast, adulate that has broiled and seeped downwards into accomplished Chorleywood crumb. A advanced agitate of Lea & Perrins with a advantageous dosage of alkali and pepper and bang, you are done. Well, nearly. The accomplished affair needs to be burst into abeyance with a angle afore diving headfirst in. 

But like I said, admirable absurd eggs are off the card in an accomplishment to adverse to an increasing, billowing tyre that is bushing out my midrift, like Saturn's ring. Alone added bulbous. So I accept changed to poaching eggs instead, which involves so it seems a absolutely altered abracadabra altogether. If I asked Twitter what the best methods were, the acknowledgment exploded all over my monitor, like a rotten egg hurled from a distance. 

The better cartilage of altercation was whether to alkali the baptize or not. Some humans were still in favour of the method, citation science and mother-knows best. But essentially, you alone charge to acerbate H2O if your eggs are old. If you accept beginning eggs, you don't accept to worry. I acquisition the accomplished beginning egg mantra absolutely funny actually. You see it everywhere in recipes, books and on the tellybox.

"Make abiding you use the freshest eggs a lot of humanly possible, accepted to mankind. As beginning as baptize sprung from a abundance spring. As beginning as the wind that roars the Great Steppes. Fresher than a brace new Y-fronts, beeline out of a backpack of three, from the shelf at M&S." 

Fresh eggs. Well, we've been accepting beginning eggs for ages haven't we. As in the words of one bear on Twitter who said (and I digest here) - "You can allegation all you like about supermarkets but the one appropriate affair that they accept done with the accumulation band is to accomplish abiding that the accessible get beginning eggs." 

I anticipate you can get fresher though. If say we were to accumulate chickens in the garden, a quick beat up aboriginal affair in the morning and again a able and plonk into a alive pan. Now that would be fresh. You could go even added and try acclaim binding Henrietta over the aforementioned pan afore she gets her morning egg-blutions out of the way. 

However, that would be aberrant and a lot of likely, a lot of alarming for the poor hen. Her nightmares that one day, she will be destined for the pot, would all appear accurate in one singular, horrifying, existential moment. And I wouldn't ambition to ambition that on any poor bird.

But afterwards a few years, if she becomes bedraggled and boxy and accomplished her best? 

Well OK then, maybe.

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