Cook with Carl

20/07/2026

Using up the salad from Saturday, had hotdogs which were sweat chilli and honey sausages fried in light olive oil and butter,, chopped onions and garlic served with fried garlic naan bread, red pepper and taxiki dips from M&S

17/07/2026

Mediterranean salad as an appetiser followed by salmon in a tomato and basil sauce served with new potatoes lightly fried in butter and olive oil sprinkled with thyme.....

So, for the sauce...
Add a glug of light olive oil and a thumb sized piece of butter to a pan and heat until the butter sizzles

Then add...
Some ground pepper and sea salt
1 chopped shallot
1 chopped chilli pepper
1 chopped garlic bulb
a few leaves of fresh basil
300 ml of chicken stock
1 small bottle of strained tomatoes
approximately 100ml of whipping cream

Allow a minute or two between adding each ingredient

Cook for a few minutes. I will let this cool and keep in the fridge overnight for tomorrow

The salad has fetta cheese, cucumber, grape tomatoes, spring onions, lettuce, pineapple, celery all sliced and a bulb of chopped garlic. All drizzled with light olive oil, a dash of red wine vinegar, some sea salt and dried thyme.

11/06/2026

One of my favourite late night snacks, I made the dressing, well sort of cheated...

half a bottle of salad cream
dash of Worcestershire sauce
2 to 3 teaspoons of tomato paste
Stir well then add a few drops of tabasco sauce
dash of light olive oil

Next time I might be more fussy and start with an aoili instead of salad cream...

My aioli is from the late Keith Floyd s series@ Floyd Uncorked.....

Two whole eggs not just the yolk in a mixing bowl
Add two or three chopped garlic bulbs
Whisk whilst slowly pouring in the light olive oil

This will give you a good mayonnaise to start with.
Adding some sauvignon blanc is something I've done on the past plus the ingredients above minus the salad cream 👌👌

30/04/2026