Recent Recipes

Bringing the Moveable Feast Home

Dining on board the Venice Simplon Orient-Express and its sister trains, the British Pullman and Northern Belle, is an experience like no other. Gourmet cuisine and elegant surroundings make for an unforgettable experience. Matthew Smith, Executive Chef of the British Pullman and Northern Belle, combines 

It’s a Pitty: Pitta Bread, Hummous and Baba Ganoush

It’s a Pitty: Pitta Bread, Hummous and Baba Ganoush

A real Middle-Eastern treat: crudites with pitta bread, humus and baba ghanoush, all made in the Thermomix!

Get Lost at Loseley

Called “a stately home for all occasions,” Loseley Park is located less than eight miles from our home in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Built in the 1560s, Loseley House has been the home of the More-Molyneux family for some 500 years, 

Perfect Parfait: Heston Blumenthal’s Parfait of Chicken Livers

Perfect Parfait: Heston Blumenthal’s Parfait of Chicken Livers

One of my favourite starters or light lunches is a deeply flavoured chicken liver parfait, full of thyme and with an underlying taste of port. Heston Blumenthal’s Parfait of Chicken Livers recipe, which I tore out of The Sunday Times magazine way back on October 30, 2005, is my idea of a perfect parfait.

Oh, How Cheesy: Gougères (cheese puffs)

Oh, How Cheesy: Gougères (cheese puffs)

A cheesy variation of choux pastry, Gougères can be made as individual cheesy puffs or as per the traditional way in Burgundy, in a delightful crown-shaped sharing piece. Choux pastry is so easy in the Thermomix, you’ll wonder why you don’t make it more often!