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Trio of Starter’s
Posted on October 11th, 2009 1 comment
I am not going to bore you with how I came about getting this job feeding Nadyne McNicoll and Gordon McKie, let just say it was a gift from one of Nadyne’s clients, as Nadyne is a Personal Trainer for some well to do people.
When Nadyne got in touch to arrange a date and the menu she had mentioned that she would like to learn one or more starters and if the starters could be somewhat on the healthy side.
The SA Promo Magazine had called me a couple of weeks ago asking if they could join me on one of my course’s. I asked Nadyne if they could join us on the day and she kindly said that it would be fine.
I decided on doing a Trio of Tuna Carpaccio, Tian of Mango & Crab and Pan-fried Scottish Scallops on a bed of Celeriac Puree.
We bought most of the ingredients from the Market and what we could not find there I got from my supplies including the plates which we where going to plate the starters on, as I thought these plates worked well with this dish.
I am going to leave it there as I think the pictures speak much more eloquently than I could, but once again I do want to say thank you to Gordon and Nadyne for allowing the SA Promo Magazine to join them on their cooking experience.
1 responses to “Trio of Starter’s”
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Thanks so much Spencer. We had a fantastic day. Considering I normally burn toast I think I amazed myself with the end result!
The trip to Borough Market was excellent as Spencer knows a lot of the suppliers and is extremely knowledgeable about the ingredients we were buying, which was great for me as I like to advise my clients about nutrition and where to get good quality produce.
The cooking was great fun. Spencer started with teaching us some knife skills – I think Gordon was a bit scared as mine leave a lot to be desired! I wanted to learn how to make some healthy seafood dishes and the trio we learnt are definitely ones I feel I could replicate again. The tuna carpaccio was amazing and it was great to learn how to prepare the scallops and the crab meat too (sorry if I left any shell in guys!) All in all it was a huge success!
I highly recommend Spencer – he’s a brilliant chef, inspiring teacher and a lovely guy too. Come and cook for us again Spence!
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Nadyne October 11th, 2009 at 17:41