Day 286. It's not lamb.

I did cook slow roast lamb with boulangere potatoes for lunch using Tom Kerridge's recipe; the man is truly an alchemist. By cooking the lamb on top of the potatoes they soak up the most intense flavour from the meat juices. Sensationally good especially for a husband arriving home after completing a half marathon and Bea who had run in her first cross country race of the season.

It would have been too predictable to share a photo of the lamb so here's some cakes I made instead. After all who doesn't love cake?

Day 285. Proper pub food. At home.

The hardest decision is which recipe to try first. Pork belly, slow roast lamb or gin and tonic granita? Having watched Tom Kerridge on Great British Menu I have high hopes of this cookbook and its beautiful presentation. I'm thinking lamb tomorrow, pork belly the following week and maybe a pudding somewhere in between. That's my calorie counting out of the window.