7 Jamie Oliver's roasted sweet garlic, thyme and marscapone risotto with toasted almonds and breadcrumbs!!
8 Jamie Oliver's roasted sweet garlic, thyme and marscapone risotto with toasted almonds and breadcrumbs!!
9 Jamie Oliver's white risotto with lemon thyme, sliced prosciutto, pecorino and clumbled goat's cheese
10 Jamie Oliver's swordfish wrapped in banana leaves with ginger, coriander, chilli and coconut milk - before adding the coconut milk
11 Swordfish lined up on banana leaves
12 Me and Paula
13 Me and Chris
14 Folding banana leaves
15 Folding the banana leaf
16 Chris helping with the banana leaf folding
17 Banana leaf packages ready for the oven!
18 One finished package (neatly folded!) ...
19 ... and another more roughly folded one
20 The finished item - yum!!
21 With rice added
22 The spices that go into Jamie Oliver's great from scratch curry - fennel, cumin, fenugreek and coriander seeds, cardamom pods, a clove, cinnamon stick and black peppercorns
23 Crushing everything in a hefty mortar and pestle is very satisfying!!
24 The finished spice mix
25 The finished spice mix
26 Making the curry paste
27 Finished curry paste
28 Frying the curry paste
29 The finished article - chicken curry!!
30 Pan full of chicken curry
31 Kitchen counter with our rice cooker - a great invention!!
32 Me in cooking action
33 Scallops with lemon brown-butter sauce
34 Scallop-topped potato and celery root puree with lemon brown-butter sauce
35 Final preparation of the scallop dishes
36 Chinese hot and sour soup
37 Chinese hot and sour soup
38 Tortilla soup with chicken and avocado
39 Nikki about to sample the tortilla soup
40 My expanding spice rack!
41 Jamie's fragrant Thai Broth (without the broth!)
42 Adding the broth
43 The finished item - mmmmm!!!
44 My first home made pasta - the raw ingredients
45 Starting to mix the pasta
46 Working on the dough
47 Working on the dough
48 Dough ready to rest in the fridge
49 Rolling the dough
50 Rolling the dough
51 Sheets of pasta
52 Ravioli strip
53 Ravioli ready to cook!
54 The salad chefs!
55 The finished item - ravioli of creamed ricotta, toasted pine nuts, parmesan and "loadsa herbs"!
