05/03/2025
Made a big Filipino-ish feast at ’s for her belated birthday with (big Sous - pictured with Munchkins) on Friday:
- Goth devilled eggs with burnt aubergine puree - v smoky, a nod to tortang talong, I first made these for The Ministry of Time supper club hosted by bookshop last April - the ‘ashed-in eggs’ were inspired by Graham Gore chain smoking over the breakfast he makes for The Bridge 🚬🍆
- Kinilaw - sea bream cured in sukat (spiced cane vinegar) from Siargao ❤️ with blood oranges and radishes. I was reading Doreen Fernandez’s Kinilaw last year (thanks to !) and came across a passage imagining the relief of scurvy-riddled explorers landing on Filipino shores being presented with a dish of fresh fish and citrus - so it seemed the perfect thing to make for Victorian polar explorer Graham Gore at the Ministry supper club. Cheffy green oils and fancy plating = not my comfort zone 🙅🏻♀️ but we gave it a go!
- Chicken & mushroom adobo, jollof rice with buttered carrots and green beans - as requested by the birthday girl!
(For the Ministry supper club the main course was Mapo Tofu: The Bridge tries to provoke a reaction from Graham, thinking the ‘belligerent’ amount of garlic and spices will f**k him up, but ever the adventurous lover of new experiences, he immediately becomes obsessed and asks for seconds)
