Sunday 28 August 2011

Uova fritte all 'Americana

American Style Eggs

No blog posts for weeks (absolutely no excuse besides utter laziness) and now two at once! Went to Borough market yesterday and had a few yummy bits in the fridge, so thought what better to use them on than catching up on my blog.

Sunday morning - Pancetta in the fridge and a section in the Silver Spoon called "fried" - what more could you want?!


Ingredients

Eggs look a bit weird cause the recipe says to "use a wooden spoon to flip the egg whites over the yolks to cover"

So naughty but so yummy
Really yummy but I'm now drinking a heap of tea to try and soak up all that grease! Worth it though.

Cappesante in salsa di zafferano

Scallops in saffron sauce

So I think i kind of messed this one up a bit. A couple of reasons... 

1. I'm assuming that these scallops are poached, but after I'd simmered the wine for 10 minutes there was no liquid left!
2. The sauce didn't look nearly as lovely as it did in the picture (think I had the heat too high - so the carrot coloured up a bit and in turn coloured the sauce).

and finally

3. L didn't like it at all.

Oh dear!

But still I thought it tasted really lovely. Scallops were soft and plump, sauce - although brown and slighly weird looking - was creamy and went well with the scallops. And who would have thought to put carrots with scallops?!

So here it is... complete with jazzy pictures taken on a Cannon G11 borrowed from a lovely friend - thanks H!

Scallops in saffron sauce

Simmering the liquid

Mmmmm

I cheated here and added a bit more wine... which also cooked off!

The finished product

And there we have it - my first Silver Spoon fail - ah well!