The Perfect Steak by Niall Harbison

Here is a quick video tutorial from Niall Harbison, showing you just how easy it actually is to cook the perfect steak! Try it... you wont be disappointed!  Try T-bone too!

Perfect Steak - Less than 20 minutes - Jamie Oliver

In this video, love him or hate him, Jamie Oliver shows you just how easy it is to cook the "Perfect Steak"... and in less than 20 minutes. Cooking it anything longer than that is just CRAZY! Makes me wanna head down to the local butcher and get some good steak for dinner tonight!  

Having said that, best steak I've had in ages was in The Old Arch, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland... Great steak at a great price too!
[Jamie's video was removed by Channel4 for some reason, here is one of his mates instead]

Mo's Chocolate Wonder - Simple Dairy Free Cake

This recipe comes from Maureen. It's her amazing chocolate cake that is, unbelievably, dairy free. Shocker!  Best chocolate cake I've ever tasted.... Maureen, bake on!

Cake Ingredients

• 8 oz caster sugar
• 8 oz Pure Soya butter
• 7 oz Self raising flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 15 g baking cocoa powder ( Mo prefers M&S Organic Fair Trade Cocoa Powder, but Aldi do a good one too)

EasiSingles - Not for dating but great for burgers!

via easisingles.ie

Fair play to EasiSingles.... No, they are not a speed dating or online couples thingy, but....they still make the greatest processed cheese ever! Used to love this stuff when I was a kid. I know kids still love them today too! Recently brought 20euros worth of EasiSingles over to a friend in Sri Lanka for his son. EasiSingles are well travelled!

Sweet Potato and Coconut Soup.... Nice!

This is a very simple recipe for a very tasty soup.... Can be a bit sweet for some tastes, but not me... I like it. I like it a lot!
It's thick and creamy, full of flavour. Add salt/pepper to suit your taste.... But most of all, goes great with fresh baked bread, like Nigel's Lazy Loaf.

 

Ingredients

• 1 pint of water (568ml), mixed with 400ml can of coconut milk.
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 500g sweet potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• Piece of ginger, about 3cm peeled and finely chopped
• ¼ of a red chilli, finely chopped (adjust this to your taste)
  

Eddie's Sliders....

They might be small (tiny in fact) but these sliders are full of taste! But you don't just get one, they come in baskets of 2, 4, 6 or 8.... and with a proportionate amount of fries too! Tasty!
It's gotta be M. T. Pockets all the way!

[UPDATE: Only 2 sliders are available now. :-(]

Eddie Rocket's full menu available here.

Nigel's Lazy Loaf

So, here it is my first blog post. No better way to start it off than with a great little recipe for a simple, quick and easy "lazy loaf", courtesy of Nigel Slater.  This bread is so easy to make, in fact it would be very hard to get it wrong! (no, not offering a prize to those that do manage to get it wrong... Mah!).  Very tasty fresh from the oven with some butter and cheddar cheese on it..... Yum, yum!   Go on, why not give it a go!?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/nigels_lazy_loaf_71344

Ingredients

• 225g/8oz wholemeal flour
• 225g/8oz plain flour
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 350ml/12fl oz buttermilk

Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 8. Put a large casserole dish and its lid into the oven.
2. In a large bowl, mix the flours, sea salt, sugar and bicarbonate of soda together with your fingers. Pour in the buttermilk, bringing the mixture together as a soft dough. Working quickly (the bicarbonate of soda will start working immediately), shape the dough into a shallow round loaf about 4cm/1½in thick.
3. Remove the hot casserole dish from the oven, dust the inside lightly with flour then lower in the dough. Cover with the lid and return to the oven.
4. The bread should be ready after 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave in place for 5 minutes before turning out and leaving to cool slightly before eating. (Soda bread is best eaten warm.)