There was absolutely no question about where I was going to turn to for table inspiration today, and that is food blogger Eat Like a Girl. I'm just going to put this straight out there: I'm a little bit obsessed with Niamh. Her blog is pretty much the only one I look at religiously; like more than once a day. I was devastated when she was back at Covent Garden Market in December for a few days...I work right next door to it, and I happened to not be in the office those days. I am always in the office.
Another reason I love Niamh is because her book, Comfort & Spice, was the best cookbook I bought last year. I have made a ton of stuff from it and everything has been easy, utterly delicious, and turned out exactly how I expected.
On today's menu is Eat Like a Girl's overnight shoulder of pork with spiced apple relish.
The pork is so tender it is completely falling apart and the crackling is break your teeth amazing. Sides are parmentier potatoes cooked in the pork fat, braised fennel and some pan-roasted chantenay carrots as they were lurking in the veg drawer.
Dessert is sea salted caramel ice cream from my second favourite cookbook of 2011, Hawksmoor at Home, with some fresh raspberries. I sort of forgot about dessert so am pretty pleased I made that ice cream last week.
The one thing I'm not sure about during this lunch party is the fact that it's booze free. Ben's on antibiotics, Sal's on a dry month and I'm avoiding booze where possible. Will it be as fun?
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