10 minute easy puff pastry

Puff pastry seems to have a pretty tough rep – I’d always been told that it was complicated, fiddly and time consuming. This recipe however, originally one of Gordon’s, is quick, easy and faff free. Okay it is ‘rough’ puff pastry – not something you would find in a patisserie but it makes a pretty [...]

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Casamia win Gordon Ramsay’s Best Restaurant!

Just a quick post (it’s nearly past our bedtimes after all!) Huge congratulations to Jon and Pete at Casamia, Bristol’s home grown Michelin star restaurant in Westbury on Trym – 100% you deserve that Visit their site at: http://www.casamiarestaurant.co.uk/ or follow Casamia chefs Pete and Jon Sanchez on Twitter twitter.com/jonraysanchez twitter.com/peter_sanchez_

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Prosecco – a new foodie favourite

Prosecco 25 The Mall Clifton Village Bristol BS8 4JG www.proseccoclifton.com T. 0117 973 4499 Becci’s Review I can’t believe I have lived in Clifton for so long without sampling this treasure. After seeing it on Ramsey’s F Word, I assumed Prosecco would be permanently rammed but we somehow managed to secure a table, and boy [...]

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Recipe Books to live your life by – A Foodie’s favourites

Everyone has their favourite recipe books, the cookery books which are rarely returned to the shelf, where the pages are stuck together and sticky from the creation of culinary masterpieces (and the occasional disaster!) Here are a sample of the must-have Cookery Books favoured by passionate cooks at Bristol Foodie: Joy May – Nosh 4 [...]

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Ramsey’s Home Made Pork Pies (with a Bristol Foodie’s twist!)

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Home made pork pies, a great way to impress guests coming over for “nibbles” and even nicer as a teatime snack or a spot of comfort food. I first found the recipe in “Gordon Ramsay’s Great British Pub Food” and was concerned the recipe for such a simple and scrummy snack could be hideously complicated… [...]

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Dessert Discovery – Gypsy Tart

If you’re anything like me then you’ll love desserts, however often find them complicated and fiddly to make – especially the really good ones. Which is why I was over the moon to discover “gypsy tart” amongst “Gordon Ramsay’s Great British Pub Classics”. Now how British this is, or how much of a classic I’m [...]

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