Tower of Taste!

I have had the most delicious baguette I’ve ever had in my life! This was at the Tower of London, in their New Armouries Cafe, which only opened a year or so ago and is much, much more gourmet than the usual fast food rubbish you get at tourist venues – but with very reasonable prices.

I’m having all sorts of trouble pasting links into their usual place on my iPad, and in fact am finding the app very un-user-friendly, but if you search for Tower of London you’ll have no trouble finding the restaurant details.

This baguette was called a Wensleydale Waldorf, and contained: Wensleydale cheese, walnuts, celery, cranberries and apple. All but the cheese, was bound into a spreadable mixture with creme fraiche. It worked brilliantly and I am taking this combination home as something to definitely try for myself. It helped that the baguette was super fresh and soft, as I am having a lot of teeth problems and can’t cope with crunchy, hard bread at the moment!

I’ve done absolutely no cooking whilst here, but I have eaten a lot! In particular I have had some wonderful cheeses – too much really!

Happy Holiday Fooding!

 

A BBQ Where There’s a Butcher Involved

In fact, the butcher was the host! Our friends Phil & Jodie held a housewarming bbq just after Christmas (this was where I discovered the luscious pear & feta platter), and as Phil is a butcher, the meat was absolutely divine. We had a smoked “turkey ham”, sliced and eaten cold, and it was sooooooo delicious, just melted in your mouth.

As well Phil had made his own creation, a version of a turducken and I am probably getting this wrong but I think it was pork inside chicken inside turkey. Actually Phil reads this so he will hopefully comment and correct me if I have mucked this up – whatever the combination, it was superb. Phil makes these only to order as they take several weeks to produce.

As well as the usual suspects like marinated chicken wings, we also had this large butterflied piece of lamb –

and some specially-aged (3 months??) wagyu steak, which unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of. Luckily, my friends are all well used to me poking my camera under their noses and taking photos of their meals all the time!

Jodie insists that she never cooks, but she managed to produce yummy salads (especially the couscous one, which had dried cranberries in it) and a gorgeous couple of desserts.

Here’s a plug for Terranova Butcher, for any of you that are in the Northbridge vicinity of Perth – thanks for the great bbq, Phil!

Happy Fooding!