Cooking With Mother

2011-04-26T10:43:00.000+01:00

I Don't Like Football, I love it!

2010-05-18T01:40:00.004+01:00

Hello

The World Cup is looming and an idea I had some 10 years ago is coming to life on May the 31st.

The reason I have been out of the kitchen and not pod cooking is I have been working on some new music. I hope to be archiving Mama con la recepta de La Abuela Grande cooking a real family fave "Croquetas" All with a Special Spain live football Pod Cook during the Tournament.

In the mean time if you would like to hear my latest musical efforts for the World Cup and beyond then please visit:

http://www.myspace.com/guarro

The sites below will go live on the 31st of May

http://www.marcosdcruze.com
http://www.guarro.net

For more visit http://www.kabodler.com

It just leaves me to say thanks for reading and listening.

Buenas

M
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2010-01-19T12:57:00.003Z

Hello Cookingblogosphere

We were sent this a little while ago and asked to put in on CWM. So we have, finally. Though not vegans ourselves at Cooking With Mother it is interesting reading and viewing, and a singer songwriter is always welcome. Check out Sarah Westbrook and her raw vegan vision at
www.youtube.com/dreamabigdream

Thanks

CWM Fairey

The Annual

2010-01-19T10:38:00.030Z

Welcome, friends of Cooking With Mother, to the CWM Collection.

Here is a roundup of all the best CWM recipes and podcooks - the ones that made it to the blog because they are so delicious/simple/fun to make.

We thought we'd like to put them all in one place, stand back a bit and go 'wow, look at that. That's quite a lot of great cooking, good friends, music and spending time with mum.' The esteemed founder and High Chief Cooker-With-Mother (commonly known on here as MAD) has done great work here and hopes you will continue to enjoy his recipes and thoughts. There's enough for 6 dinner parties here so get in the kitchen, turn your radio up and get concocting.

Saturday, 12 April 2008

Vindaloo

This dish should not take longer than 45 to 50 mins, I have seen Mum cook it in 20 but we are not mum.

Utensils:

1 large cooking pot with a lid
1 wooden spoon
1 tea spoon
1 bowl
and a sharp knife
rice steamer or pot for rice

Ingredients :

5 loin pork chops quite large ones if possible
Note this dish can be cooked with pork/beef/chicken or diced turkey
potatoes
rice
1 onion
garlic powder
ground ginger
jeera AKA cumin
chili powder
paprika
(Please note all powdered ingredients can be fresh if you prefer)
vindaloo paste
vegetable oil
1 tin of tomato puree
fresh coriander

Side dishes and salad ingredients:

onion (apple salad)
3 granny smith apples (apple salad)
one large pot of natural yogurt (apple salad)

one small white cabbage (side dish)
3 to 4 cloves of garlic (side dish)

now here's part 1 of the podcast.

My battery died just at the end of cooking the curry so here is the final part including an apple salad and Mum's special garlic fried cabbage.

And the whole podcast here.

Enjoy

Thursday, 17 April 2008

Paella

Today's podcook is all about Spain's national dish La Paella - now this meal should take about an hour but it took me two; this was because I have never cut up a whole chicken fo r cooking before or ever cleaned squid.
Mum did suggest a bit late in the podcook that preparing all of your ingredients before the cook can save lots of time - this podcook does not follow that plan and is really ideal for the beginner like me.

Please bear in mind I am making a Spanish dish with ingredients from a Sommerfield supermarket in Horncastle Lincolnshire which was short on prawns and fish stock which Tesco helped me out with.
I brought my paellera up from Acton, London and rustled up this classic recipe in my mates cottage in Asterby.

You don't need a paellera but it is best. So you know one can make do with a large frying pan so long as the base is flat, mum chats a bit about this in the p.c.

Cooking With Mother is a learning curve for me even as a singer songwriter used to recording music - recording my food preparation is very different unlike over dubbing a guitar in the studio this thing is more of a live performance.
I endeavoured to be more descriptive in this podcook than the last as was mama.

This simple paella is a real winner so please download it pop it in your iPod and cook in stereo, it came out a treat.

Please click here for the full paella podcast or each part separately below and buen provecho.

Saturday 17th May 2008

Trout with Bainas la Vasca and parsley sauce

The Rainbow Trout in this Pod Cook was caught by my own fair hand whilst learning to fly fish with my uncles - to be honest I only landed the fish uncle Gene caught it.
My other uncle Clive has some snaps on his mobile phone which I will post once aunty Hilary has figured out how to mail them over. Uncles Gene and Clive also describe gutting and filleting the fish for us in a bonus Pod Cast at the end of this post.

What is special about this Pod Cook is Gene and Clive have been fly fishing near my village for 30 years or more and have historically always delivered Salmon and Trout to Mum throughout my childhood and now I am going to prepare this fish dish with one I got myself - kinda!
The cooking time for this dish is roughly 1 and a 1/4 hrs.

My advice would be to listen to the podcoo k at the bottom of this post - load it onto your iPod and just cook, Mum is amazing and you get a tune to get you into it - I really hope you enjoy this instalment of "Cooking With Mother" because I have.

Big Love from Hants.

Ingredients for Trout with Bainas a la Vasca and Parsley Sauce:

Fish - We used Rainbow Trout you can use any other fish you like
Salt and Pepper
A bag of the largest new potatoes you can find as they will need peeling
1 head of Garlic
A bunch of Parsley
2 Lemons
Olive Oil
Butter
Whole milk you may use semi skimmed if you prefer
Plain flour

Utensils:

1 Baking tray
Silver foil
1 pan
1 Frying pan
Tongs or serving spoon and fork

Utensils for Parsley Sauce:

A big bunch of Parsley
1 small milk pan
A whisk How to cook:
Get your fish and squeeze half a lemon nicely as Mum says over the fillets.
Place them on a baking tray covered with silver foil season with salt and pepper.
Chop 2 cloves of garlic into thin slices.
Place the garlic evenly over the fish.Take 6 or 7 good sprigs of parsley.
Wash and chop it up finely.
Then cover the fillets evenly with the parsl ey.Now drizzle generously with olive oil.
Cover with more silver foil, put the fish to one side and pre-heat your oven to 175 degrees C or 350 degrees F in old money.
Peel your large new potatoes.12 spuds serves 4 comfortably I was cooking for 3 so 10 of these Majorcan New Potatoes were more than enough.
Take your 3 bags of green beans.Wash them thoroughly and chop the tips off.Then place the potatoes in the pan with all your beans on top.
Pour 3/4 of a pint over the potatoes and the green beans.Break up a whole chicken stock cube over the beans and potatoes put a lid on and boil.
Now put your fillets of fish into your pre-heated oven and let it cook while the veg boils - it's now time to make the Parsley Sauce. Parsley Sauce:
Get a small pan - I used a milk pan.Now Mum said cut a man width of a finger from a block of butter.
Slice the butter. Place the butter in your pan and drizzle a little olive oil on the butter to stop it burning.
Gather together your flour and milk, and put your butter and oil on a lowish heat to melt.
Wash and finely chop another 7 or 8 good sprigs of Parsley.
When the butter and oil look melted this is the time to introduce your flour.
Sprinkle 2 level table spoons of flour into the oil.
Season according to taste.It is important that you never stop mixing with your whisk throughout the sauce preparation - make sure there are no lumps.Add milk whilst still stirring try to reach the consistency of a nice medium thick sauce, keep mixing adding more milk if required until it boils - do not over boi l and keep mixing on a low heat. I cannot tell you how much Mum went on about the mixing in the Pod Cook.
I ended up using 1/2 a pint.
Introduce the freshly washed and chopped parsley to the sauce whilst continually mixing adding milk more milk if it looks like it is thickening too much.
After 3 minutes on the boil remove the pan from the heat.At this point take your fish out of the oven.
Remove the top layer of silver foil and put it back in the oven so it can go golden being careful not to over cook it.
Bring both your beans and potatoes to the boil - o nce boiling put some olive oil in a frying pan and be generous.
Chop 4 to 5 cloves of garlic in into medium slices.
Fry until golden - NB. Do not burn your garlic as it will make it taste bitter, once golden add the oil with garlic to the beans and potatoes and return to your fish which should be a pale pinky colour when ready.

Plating up:
With tongs or your serving spoon and fork pl ace the beans in the centre of the plate leaving the water behind.
Place the fillet of fish on top of the beans put the potatoes around the side of the plate then slice the remaining half a lemon for decoration on the other side.
Pour your sauce over your fish and pour some more in the other corner of your plate.

All that is left is for you to enjoy your meal.

I want to thank Mama for a great Pod Cook which appears below, Uncles Gene and Clive for the fish and th e gutting and filleting lesson, young Sam Barr my photographer and first mate for all of his help and photography, I want to thank Doug Woodrow for his technical advice and last but not least my lovely Chloe for her support and who loves the fact that I have discovered my kitchen.

Pod Cook:
Rainbow Trout Pod Cook

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Tortilla de Patata

Hola

Here we are again how quick the weeks go by, I am already planning next weeks Pod Cook here on CWM.
Since I have become a member of Hampshire Fare I have to get my food order in a week in advance better for the environment less food miles, fresher, supporting the local producers and frankly it tastes better.
I would like to thank David my landlord at the pub for his kind advice.

Now "La Tortilla" is one of those dishes that has been with me all my life lunches, picnics, Bar B Q, tapas, or just a cold slither for breaky.
Tortilla is so versatile and great for your v egetarian friends and delicious hot or cold.
The best part is it should only take you half an hour to 40 minutes to cook - it took me an hour on the Podcook and I tried to keep the pace up while doing a microwave gig.

We have a new swizzy slide show for you to accompany the Podcook you can hit pause and sync with the audio, but if I were you I would just sling the mp3 in your iPod and cook with mother.

I hope you enjoy La Tortilla as much as we did and please do send in your photos and comments if you cook it would b e great to hear from you.

Ingredients for Tortilla de Patata:
3 medium sized potatoes (Small jacket potato size)
1 large spanish onion
4 eggs
Salt
Olive oil

Utensils:
1 Bowl
1 Large microwave friendly dish
1 small frying pan
A fork or a whisk
1 knife for peeling, cutting and chopping

How to cook:
The complete Tortilla Podcook

Saturday 21 June 2008

Cooking with Mother 'Concoctio n/Fridge Scrape' a.k.a. Biryani Surprise!

The dish on this Pod Cook is a smasher, it was supposed to be a Biryani but ended up being a Pasta because we forgot that Biryani needed lashings of Coriander - this dish was complicated it even required a pre-boiled chicken!

Tonight's effort is otherwise known to me and Mum as a "Concoction" or "Fridge Scrape" a salvaged dish from lovely available ingredients which took only an Hour and a Quarter to prepare.

This is what makes it a creation.

We hope you enjoy :-)

Ingredients for Biryani Surprise:

Half a Chicken
4 medium sized onions
2 Cloves of Garlic
Salt
Pepper
9 Tomatoes
Rape Seed Oil or other
Dried Chilli
Chilli Jam "The Happy Medium" or other eg. "Encona"
A splash of Rose Wine
Cheese (I used Cheddar it's all there was in the fridge)

Utensils:

One small frying pan
A deep non-stick frying pan
A pan with enough space for boiling Spaghetti and half a Chicken
Garlic crusher
A sharp knife
A Colander
One chopping board
A bowl
And a plate

Pod Cook:
Complete Biryani Surprise Podcook.

Sunday, 29 June 2008

'Killer Prawns' - Gambas al Ajillo

Here we are again with another Cracker on Cooki ng With Mother. What a treat for you today - Mum's "Killer Prawns" AKA Gambas Al Ajillo, fitting also to be posting this Classic Spanish dish on the very night Spain win Euro 2008, Ole! This dish should only take 20 or so minutes to prepare, I took around half an hour, but then I did have a Kilo of quite big prawns to fry. This is a first for CWM as we are now on Google Video as well as podcasting. I want to thank Andy and Chloe for all the ir help in the making of our first Video Cook - no animals were injured in the making of this film but Andy did get a bit drunk (light weight) and Chloe sliced her finger washing up; both of them though behaved selflessly in the production of this Vcook and for this I salute them both. Buen Provecho
Ingredients for Killer Prawns - Gambas al Aji llo:
1 Kilo of Prawns (Shrimps) Parsley (Local farm)
1 Head of Garlic (Isle Of White)
Rape Seed Oil (Mum uses Olive Oil)
White Wine Vinegar
Malden Sea Salt or any other
Utensils: 1 large frying pan or Wok
Colander
A wooden spoon, tongs or large fork - use something that will not break the prawns when turning them.
A dish for serving
Serving suggestion: A lovely chilled bottle of Chablis, a fresh green salad and a crusty loaf or baguette to mop up the lovely sauce.
Pod Cook: The complete "Killer Prawns" Podcook.

Thank you for reading.

And here's where it (mostly) all happened.

But...what's that on the horizon? Could it be a brand new project? Some kind of FUSION between two crazy creative minds? With something to do with MUSIC? I wonder.....

STAY TUNED and continue to follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/podcooks

Winter Warmer

2010-01-05T01:37:00.005Z

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thank you to the Kitchen Fairey for all of her updates.

The truth is you known I started blogging Mums recipes for me to remember them.

Next thing you know someone wants to make a Daytime TV show out your blog.

So you go along with it and make a pilot, with a TV celeb and her Mother in another part of the country while cooking Bread and Butter Pudding over Skype.

I had a Production Company, Directors and interested parties all attempting to create some kinda golden format with golden spoons
.
I then realised to my horror that my little cooking music journal of Mums cooking and my music had ceased to exist.
As did the Daytime TV version.
The Flamenco had gone! What was I doing standing on a Helipad saying to camera "Hello and Welcome to Cooking With Mother?"
Now that is Soreal - Please visit http://www.sorealism.com for a definition of Sorealism if you do not know already know.

An interesting chapter in the early history of an honest blog and a musicians career.

Hey you never know what can happen do you?
My many thanks to everybody involved in the making of the CWM TV Pilot it was an extraordinary way to start last year and I really did enjoy myself making it and I met some really lovely people too.

Since then it has been 100% Music which is why the Fairey has been filling in.

Now last night I had to cook some comfort food for my wife, it was a freezing night out there and I knew she wanted warming after an extra late night at work so I managed to put my guitar down, pick up the phone get in the kitchen and cook with mother.

I dialed Mama but did not record on purpose - (Sorry no Podcook) - instead I thought I'd just write down the instructions and tools needed for:

Chipolata with Caramel Sherry and Onion Gravy on a bed of Creamy Mash Potato.

(Cooking time 45mins)

Ingredients:

Half an Onion
11 Chipolata sausages
Salt
Black Pepper
Olive Oil
Gravy Granules
13 small to medium sized potatoes
1 Large/double wine glass of Sherry
Mixed Italian Herbs

Utensils:

1 milk pan
1 Baking Tray
1 Frying Pan
A sharp knife
1 Roasting Tin
A chopping board
A Pan
2 Oven friendly dishes

So Mum said:

Put the 11 large chipolata sausages in a Baking Tray and place in the oven at 180 degrees.

She then said chop half an onion and slice it thinly and then heat enough olive oil to cover the bottom of a frying pan and fry the onion slices separating them out.

While frying I peeled the potatoes as instructed making sure I kept an eye on the onions.

When the spuds were peeled I chopped and popped them in a pan with water and a nice splash of Salt and set them to boil.

The onions turned black but did not burn.
I then added one and three quarter mugs of water, and brought it to the boil throwing in 3 heaped Tea spoons of Gravy Granules, a nice big pinch Italian mixed herbs adding seasoning to taste.

Granules stirred in with a wooden spoon it was time to check on the sausages and spuds, the spuds needed longer as did the sausages but do check, you do not want burnt sausages, yours may cook quicker.

Next I took the gravy off the heat and in a milk pan heated up the sherry until it evaporated off all its alcohol and got it to look like caramel, I then poured that into the baking dish holding the sausages, extracting the sausages first. (Be warned the sausages may be stuck to the bottom so remove them carefully.)

Using the wooden spoon and the sherry I cleaned the pan of all of its juices and bits and poured that into the onion gravy mmm, It looked like someone else had cooked it.

I then placed the sausages in an oven dish and dolloped all of the sherry onion gravy on top of them.
I then put a lid on and left it in the oven at just under a 100 degrees to keep warm.

Potato ready I poured out the water and tossed in a desert spoon and bit of unsalted butter and a dribble of milk and began to mash it with the masher.
(This is the first time I had ever managed to make creamy mashed potato.)
Season if you wish but beware do not use too much milk and remember I added salt to the water the spuds were boiled in, which means if you are following these instructions, you did too.

Now place that mash in another oven friendly dish, decorate the mash it with a fork if you fancy then put it in the oven with the sausages ready for serving when ever Doris got in.

It is a real winter warmer sweet and comforting.

Thanks Mum for the natter and thank you for reading.

Buenas Noches

M
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(This blog was written whilst listening to WTNR RADIO)

2009-09-25T14:42:00.002+01:00

Afternoon all. CWM Fairey returns.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the kitchen is currently taking a break - it needs some time alone, to think about what it wants from it's life, to re-assess its kitchen priorities, y'know. In all seriousness, we're having yet another little pause while we have meetings, make music and all the other bits required to get this show on the road.

We will not however be abandoning you completely dear friends! In my search for new and interesting things with which to fill up this blog, I went a-wandering through our beautiful Hampshire village. We couldn't hope for a more gorgeous day today - it's September for cryingout loud, this time last year we were getting drenched every time we stepped outside. Sun is shining, sky is blue, air is fresh -amazing.

Anyway, just down the road there is a pub. Outside the pub were two chefs, enjoying a relaxing post-work afternoon pint. This pub is renowned for its fantastic food and tireless championing of local producers - everything used in the kitchen comes from within a 30-mile radius. Even the tea served at the bar comes from Tregothnan, Cornwall. So, seeing these two chefs I thought I would take the opportunity to hear some wisdom from the pros.

According to Jonasz, the worst thing about cooking is how it is like a short-lived form of art. 'You create something great and it disappears straight away, so you have to start all over again'. The best thing? 'We need food. Food is a necessity. We would eat it even if it didn't taste good, because we have to. It's nice to be able to make something that could be boring and functional into something exciting and enjoyable.'

And according to James - 'Cooking is about making people feel happy. It's great when you see people's reaction to something you've made'.
James also, in a shameless bit of self-promotion, summed up Jonasz's 'best thing...' comment as follows: 'Eating is a necessity but dining (here) is a luxury.'

So, thanks to two local madmen, I mean culinary wizards, for their thoughts. It really all boils down to art, enjoyment and sharing happiness. Luckily at CWM HQ, those are our favourite things!

Enjoy the weekend, may it be as beautiful as ours is looking to be!

Love from the Fairey and everyone at Cooking With Mother.

2009-09-23T15:19:00.004+01:00

Sooo......the Podcook happened....but Kitchen Fairey hasn't seen any footage of it which is why it has not appeared yet on Cooking With Mother blog!

HOWEVER

This doesn't matter too much because it was a BBC-style

!

We have in fact shown you the Butternut Beans recipe in the past but it is a favourite, and a nice simple one with which relaunch CWM. If any footage shows up we will whack it on here for your delectation and we can all improve on last time!

Latest news - CWM is undergoing some fairly seismic changes - TV has again reared its head. If we go in that direction, expect something completely, utterly new and...well...unexpected. Meetings have taken place, and will be taking place in future, to discuss how best to share our Cooking With Mother adventures with the rest of the world.

Hoping everyone else's kitchen endeavours are being met with success. My cooking's gone all ¡Viva España! thanks to the addition of Tai to CWM HQ - our new (impossibly slender) Spanish friend who 'eats five times a day and likes cooking because she likes eating so much'. As good a reason as any!

Much Fairey lovexxx

1 day to go...

2009-09-15T13:15:00.002+01:00

...before we podcook!

Hi, the Kitchen Fairey is back and very excited about tomorrow.

Absolutely dead tired from the Bestival - any of you out there who went as well, what can I say? Wow! The bands, the food, the costumes, the woods, the people, the food...unbelievable. Hoping everyone else's weekend was as outrageous as mine.

Don't forget to get your ingredients today - you need:

2 tins of butterbeans
1 medium butternut squash
1 head of garlic
Olive oil
1 whole chorizo
Potatoes
Chicken stock
All nice easy things that you can find in the supermarket, the garden and the grocer's.
Music continues here at CWM HQ, and all is well - apart from Mrs CWM, who has had to give the dog a bath after he rolled in something unmentionable. Keep up with us on Twitter, don't be shy and say hello!

Love and magic and festival-inspired madness
Kitchen Faireyxxx

2009-09-09T13:38:00.002+01:00

Hello cooks, mothers, friends. Kitchen Fairey here.

As announced in our last blog, CWM is kicking off next week with a new podcook. We've already given you the ingredients and utensils - so you've got a whole week and a bit to gather them together! We would have started this week, but I have pressing business on the Isle of Wight. There is a very exciting festival there called Bestival, which obviously would not be complete without a Fairey. Above you can see one of my festival friends from last year. Sorry to keep you waiting, but you never know - festivals are great places for discovery, perhaps I will come across some exciting new foodie things that I can share with you all. In fact, an idea is already brewing for a special Bestival-inspired podcook...I'll say no more but it will involve chocolate.

As for CWM HQ, well - it's just started to rain down in Hampshire, after yesterday's glorious sunshine. There are fresh chicken and mushroom pies on the way from the butcher across the road. The abundance of courgettes is at last under control - last time the allotment was harvested it produced millions of the things, huge ones. Mrs CWM was reduced to giving them away to anyone and everyone just to get through them all, while next door came up with an innovative way to make use of their own surplus - courgette cake. Very moist and delicious, if a little strange-looking.

Must return to the grind - though work's never bad when you're doing it in a house ringing with live music being created in the studio above your head.

Happy ingredient shopping, I'll be back with you on Monday!

Love

the Kitchen Fairey

New Term

2009-09-07T15:50:00.004+01:00

We are really thrilled at all the people who have been following us on Twitter - even though we've been so lax at updating! Tessa the Kitchen Fairey is going to change all of that.

Well, I am back. Now how many times have I said that eh!?

Well this time I mean it - we have have a new team working on CWM with me this season after our Soho television adventure earlier this year, which as much fun as it was never really delivered what I had in mind originally.

Essentially I want to archive my Mums recipes in an easy to follow format in the shape of a live Podcook with an easy to follow recipe card accompanied by some of the best new music from all over the world.

We have a funky new server, a load of really good meals and some banging chunes which we will be sharing every Friday from our country kitchen here in Hants, England.

Tessa our Kitchen Fairey will be driving our Twitter so please get in touch with her and share all your thoughts, ideas and best of all your food and music.

Monday is going to be Fairey day, Wednesday will be recipe day and Friday will be Podcook day here on cookingwithmother.com

As well as food we will try and also provide you with info about locally sourced ingredients and seasonal produce all served up on a bed of music provided by my new record label Distracks who are our new sponsors.

I'm currently working on a new track with Paul called Big Feeling, which I hope to premiere with the Podcook on Wednesday. Latin breaks with the Spanish guitar to accompany this classic Spanish invention of my mother's. Now I'm going to pass you over to Tessa our Kitchen Fairey, who's going to tell you our plans for next week!

Hi everyone - Tessa, a.k.a Kitchen Fairey here. No that's not a misspelling, that's my actual surname.

So, next week we launch the podcooks. We will be creating the first one on Wednesday 16th September. Get ready for something home grown, fresh and full of surprises - and that's just the food.

Featuring next week will be Isabel D'Cruze's recipe for Butternut Beans
Normally I will announce the week's recipe the Monday directly before the podcook - but we're just so excited at Cooking With Mother HQ that we've given you this one a week early.

We thought we'd start you off with something easy - Butternut Beans is a lovely, simple and homely dish that you can throw together if you don't have much time and can easily feed a big group.

Ingredients:

2 tins of butterbeans
1 medium butternut squash
1 head of garlic
Olive oil
1 whole chorizo
Potatoes
Chicken stock

Utensils:

Tin opener
Chopping board
Sharp knife
Large cooking pot
Wooden spoon

Until our next post it's ta ta from him and cheerio from me.

Buenas

Marcos and the Fairey

Chicken out

2009-05-10T13:28:00.003+01:00

Hello

This really will only take a minute.

I just took part in a new campaign to stop the Government making standards for UK chickens even worse!

Jane Kennedy at Defra is considering raising the maximum stocking density for intensive chicken production - effectively allowing more chickens to be crammed into those already overcrowded chicken sheds.

This Compassion in World Farming page made it really easy to send an email to Ms Kennedy, highlighting the issue and asking them to show support for chicken welfare.

You can take part right now if you follow this link:

http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=3425

Thanks!

Marcos D'Cruze

Twitter Time - From a Blog to the Box!

2009-02-23T15:16:00.008Z

Hello one and all.

Time just shoots by and still no new Podcooks for all you hungry people, apologies.

The fact of the matter is everything is cracking along at a blistering pace, it is amazing how quickly things can change.

On the 12th of April last year I posted my first "Cooking With Mother" Podcook (Mamas cracking pork Vindaloo for my belly MMMM MMMM) an mp3 Podcook from my London flat in Boca, Acton.

23/Feb/2009 and I am writing about "Cooking With Mother" being on the Telly from my new home which happens to be a thatched cottage in Hampshire.

That's right, Cooking With Mother on the TV and I now live in a thatched cottage in rural Hampshire? Where will I be next year? Tibet?

I only ever started this Blog for me and any other foodies out there that might be interested in podcooking.

The chance for anybody to easily enjoy some good grub inbetween work and play, to have a recipe described to you on your ipod in stunning detail because it is as live and you can re-cook it over and over again, now who better to do that with than your Mum.

So I recorded the phone conversations between us and posted them as podcasts to this blog as an archive.

And now a wonderfully supportive and clever TV production company called Bearkatt are in full swing producing "Cooking With Mother" The TV show. And boy are there some surprises in store!

Bonkers!

We begin filming on the 6th of March - our dates got pushed back a bit because of Comic Relief but everyone is still hard at it and readying for the shoot.

Speaking of which I should get back to work - I will be Tweeting more regularly from now on thanks to Twitterberry so please do follow the adventure with us by clicking the Podcooks Twitter link on the right hand side of this blog for all the up to the minute stuff.

Thank you again to all of you that have emailed in recipes, podcasts, suggestions and kind messages over the last couple of months it is always lovely to hear from you, if you wish to contact us please email podcooks(at)cookingwithmother(dot)com.

I promise to post to the blog again very, very soon.

Best

Thank You

2008-10-29T15:24:00.003Z

Dear all

Thank you so very much for your submissions, love and you lovely followers on Twitter for your interest.
We are heading towards a wonderful creation here with a crack team of programmers, designers and funding even in a credit crunch, not bad for a humble Blog.
We are looking to have something significant and different from all other cooking sites here for you all in the New Year.
In the meantime Chloe and I will endeavour to post some Pod Cooks with our Mother's while CWM is under construction.

Cooking With Mother, the ultimate cooking resource is on it's way.
We are coming at you like Mr Kipling - Exceedingly Good, enjoy the Beat Box Chef without his mother for now; as a musician this really appealed to me.

Beatbox Fame Game
Uploaded by loranger

See you all soon.

Best

Marcos

Nearly There

2008-08-11T22:10:00.006+01:00

Hi

We are very close to selecting our design agency and have had loads of submissions to our contribute post.
I promise to put some here.
I am really enjoying the journey Cooking With Mother is taking and these things take a while I suppose.
Please keep submitting I promise more news very soon.

Best

M

Contribute to Cooking With Mother

2008-07-27T20:38:00.006+01:00

Hello

I am very excited about the way Cooking With Mother is shaping up and we are looking for contributors.

Have you a cooking podcast that you would like to share on our radio station? Share that special recipe you have cooked with your mother over the phone? Or are you a DJ looking for a radio station where you can be heard? Or are you a News or Food Blogger looking for an audience? If you are any of these then please email us:

contribute(at)cookingwitmother(dot)com

Our unique portal will be a place to chill, cook and learn exciting new recipes from all over the world.
You will be able to stream our unique and specially designed live Video Cooks and Pod Cooks direct to your pda, iPhone or laptop this is real Sat Nav for the kitchen - as well as being the best little kitchen radio in the world.

Kitchen Radio 1 here on Cooking With Mother along with our unique brand of international home cooking will become your indispensable kitchen home page. Why not join in?

We are now in full development - stay tuned.

Best

Marcos

Kitchen Radio

2008-07-23T16:35:00.004+01:00

Como estamos?

Sorry for the lack of new podcooks - Mum is in Spain for the Summer and I have been busy gigging writing and creating.
We have also been preparing to film Chef Gareth from an award winning Gastro Pub in Hants who will be cooking with his mother, tasty.

CWM now has a backer and as a result a dynamic website is about to be created for everyone to contribute to.
We shall also be installing our very own "Kitchen Radio" here on CWM broadcasting amazing chunes from all over the world, plays and more.
As well as podcooks, v cooks and recipies from every nationality contributing everyone gets their very own Cook and Mum page to boot.

Stay Tuned..

Best

M

Cooking With Mother "Gail's Sunshine Summer Pudding"

2008-07-08T13:50:00.012+01:00

Hi all

It has taken a little while to get this up due to a slight technical problem - we've been partying a bit too much.(Well we had to eat the summer pudding right?)

Gail's Sunshine Summer Pudding V Cooked and Pod Cooked by Chloe and Gail Bell turned out real tasty and our guests Stuart and Sam loved it! As did Bobby and Lucy the following day delish!
Below are all the bits and bats you will need to cook in video and mp3 formats.

The song "Sunshine" features in this edition and the pudding took around 40 minutes to do but you could pull it off in about half an hour if you get your cling film spreading and bread cutting speedy.

Happy Pod Cooking folks and watch out for next weeks instalment as we have "Barr Pate" stay tuned.

Best

Marcos

Ingredients:

Half a loaf of medium sliced white bread
2 Cartons of frozen Berries 380g per carton
Caster Sugar

Utensils:

Wooden spoon
Saucepan
Colander
1 Mug
A 1 and a half pint clear round pudding bowl
Bread knife
Cling film
Chopping Board

Enjoy

Marcos

V Cook:

The complete Summer pudding Pod Cook:

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Join in Cooking With Mother!

2008-07-03T15:46:00.005+01:00

ps. Remember to include your ingredients,utensils and cooking time.

Cooking With Mother "Killer Prawns" - Gambas al Ajillo

2008-06-29T22:47:00.020+01:00

V Cook:

Hola

Here we are again with another Cracker on Cooking With Mother.
What a treat for you today - Mum's "Killer Prawns" AKA Gambas Al Ajillo, fitting also to be posting this Classic Spanish dish on the very night Spain win Euro 2008, Ole!

This dish should only take 20 or so minutes to prepare, I took around half an hour, but then I did have a Kilo of quite big prawns to fry.

This is a first for CWM as we are now on Google Video as well as podcasting.

I want to thank Andy and Chloe for all their help in the making of our first Video Cook - no animals were injured in the making of this film but Andy did get a bit drunk (light weight) and Chloe sliced her finger washing up; both of them though behaved selflessly in the production of this Vcook and for this I salute them both.

Buen Provecho

M

Ingredients for Killer Prawns - Gambas al Ajillo:

1 Kilo of Prawns (Shrimps)
Parsley (Local farm)
1 Head of Garlic (Isle Of White)
Rape Seed Oil (Mum uses Olive Oil)
White Wine Vinegar
Malden Sea Salt or any other

Utensils:

1 large frying pan or Wok
Colander
A wooden spoon, tongs or large fork - use something that will not break the prawns when turning them.
A dish of serving

Serving suggestion:

A lovely chilled bottle of Chablis, a fresh green salad and a crusty loaf or baguette to mop up the lovely sauce.

I really hope you enjoy this Vcook and Podcook as much as we did making and eating it, also there is a Chopping Board Gig version of "Temporary Song" for your delectation.
Thanks for reading, listening, cooking and enjoying.

Until the next time.

Agur

Marcos

Pod Cook:
The complete "Killer Prawns" Podcook.

Cooking With Mother "Concoction/Fridge Scrape" AKA - Biryani Surprise!

2008-06-21T00:32:00.024+01:00

Wotcha!

What a time, I have begun my debut Album with Pedro Fereira "AKA Producer of The Darkness" and Tom Leader AKA "Best mate of the music" last week.
I held a party at The Cottage for Dads 60th last Sunday and began writing my new play Phone which I am doing with my buddy Peter Jukes.

The dish on this Pod Cook is a smasher, it was supposed to be a Biryani but ended up being a Pasta because we forgot that Biryani needed lashings of Coriander - this dish was complicated it even required a pre-boiled chicken!

Tonight's effort is otherwise known to me and Mum as a "Concoction" or "Fridge Scrape" a salvaged dish from lovely available ingredients which took only an Hour and a Quarter to prepare.

This is what makes it a creation.

We hope you enjoy :-)

Marcos

Ingredients for Biryani Surprise:

Half a Chicken
4 medium sized onions
2 Cloves of Garlic
Salt
Pepper
9 Tomatoes
Rape Seed Oil or other
Dried Chilli
Chilli Jam "The Happy Medium" or other eg. "Encona"
A splash of Rose Wine
Cheese (I used Cheddar it's all there was in the fridge)

Utensils:

One small frying pan
A deep non-stick frying pan
A pan with enough space for boiling Spaghetti and half a Chicken
Garlic crusher
A sharp knife
A Colander
One chopping board
A bowl
And a plate

How to cook:

Pod Cook:

Complete Biryani Surprise Podcook.

Cooking With Mother "Tortilla de Patata"

2008-06-04T13:46:00.020+01:00

Hola

Here we are again how quick the weeks go by, I am already planning next weeks Pod Cook here on CWM.
Since I have become a member of Hampshire Fare I have to get my food order in a week in advance better for the environment less food miles, fresher, supporting the local producers and frankly it tastes better.
I would like to thank David my landlord at the pub for his kind advice.

Now "La Tortilla" is one of those dishes that has been with me all my life lunches, picnics, Bar B Q, tapas, or just a cold slither for breaky.
Tortilla is so versatile and great for your vegetarian friends and delicious hot or cold.
The best part is it should only take you half an hour to 40 minutes to cook - it took me an hour on the Podcook and I tried to keep the pace up while doing a microwave gig.

We have a new swizzy slide show for you to accompany the Podcook you can hit pause and sync with the audio, but if I were you I would just sling the mp3 in your iPod and cook with mother.

I hope you enjoy La Tortilla as much as we did and please do send in your photos and comments if you cook it would be great to hear from you.
And if you are on Twitter why not follow me.

Cheers for now

M
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Ingredients for Tortilla de Patata:

3 medium sized potatoes (Small jacket potato size)
1 large spanish onion
4 eggs
Salt
Olive oil

Utensils:

1 Bowl
1 Large microwave friendly dish
1 small frying pan
A fork or a whisk
1 knife for peeling, cutting and chopping

How to cook:

Pod Cook:

The complete Tortilla Podcook.

Trout with Bainas a la Vasca and Parsley Sauce

2008-05-17T14:34:00.000+01:00

Hello

Welcome to back to "Cooking With Mother" what an amazing couple of weeks I have had.
The move from London to the Village has been a life changing experience the cottage the village the shop the pub the butchers and more importantly the people have given both Chloe and me the most amazing welcome.

Above is a snap of the cottage which has the most fabulous kitchen to cook with mum in I could ever have wished for.

The Rainbow Trout in this Pod Cook was caught by my own fair hand whilst learning to fly fish with my uncles - to be honest I only landed the fish uncle Gene caught it.
My other uncle Clive has some snaps on his mobile phone which I will post once aunty Hilary has figured out how to mail them over. Uncles Gene and Clive also describe gutting and filleting the fish for us in a bonus Pod Cast at the end of this post.

What is special about this Pod Cook is Gene and Clive have been fly fishing near my village for 30 years or more and have historically always delivered Salmon and Trout to Mum throughout my childhood and now I am going to prepare this fish dish with one I got myself - kinda!
The cooking time for this dish is roughly 1 and a 1/4 hrs.

My advice would be to listen to the podcook at the bottom of this post - load it onto your iPod and just cook, Mum is amazing and you get a tune to get you into it - I really hope you enjoy this instalment of "Cooking With Mother" because I have.

Big Love from Hants.

M
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Ingredients for Trout with Bainas a la Vasca and Parsley Sauce:

Fish - We used Rainbow Trout you can use any other fish you like
Salt and Pepper
A bag of the largest new potatoes you can find as they will need peeling
1 head of Garlic
A bunch of Parsley
2 Lemons
Olive Oil
Butter
Whole milk you may use semi skimmed if you prefer
Plain flour

Utensils:

1 Baking tray
Silver foil
1 pan
1 Frying pan
Tongs or serving spoon and fork

Utensils for Parsley Sauce:

A big bunch of Parsley
1 small milk pan
A whisk

How to Cook:

Get your fish and squeeze half a lemon nicely as Mum says over the fillets.

Place them on a baking tray covered with silver foil season with salt and pepper.

Chop 2 cloves of garlic into thin slices.

Place the garlic evenly over the fish.

Take 6 or 7 good sprigs of parsley.

Wash and chop it up finely.

Then cover the fillets evenly with the parsley.

Now drizzle generously with olive oil.

Cover with more silver foil, put the fish to one side and pre-heat your oven to 175 degrees C or 350 degrees F in old money.

Peel your large new potatoes.

12 spuds serves 4 comfortably I was cooking for 3 so 10 of these Majorcan New Potatoes were more than enough.

Take your 3 bags of green beans.

Wash them thoroughly and chop the tips off.

Then place the potatoes in the pan with all your beans on top.

Pour 3/4 of a pint over the potatoes and the green beans.

Break up a whole chicken stock cube over the beans and potatoes put a lid on and boil.

Now put your fillets of fish into your pre-heated oven and let it cook while the veg boils - it's now time to make the Parsley Sauce. Parsley Sauce:

Get a small pan - I used a milk pan.

Now Mum said cut a man width of a finger from a block of butter.

Slice the butter.

Place the butter in your pan and drizzle a little olive oil on the butter to stop it burning.

Gather together your flour and milk, and put your butter and oil on a lowish heat to melt.

Wash and finely chop another 7 or 8 good sprigs of Parsley.

When the butter and oil look melted this is the time to introduce your flour.

Sprinkle 2 level table spoons of flour into the oil.

Season according to taste.

It is important that you never stop mixing with your whisk throughout the sauce preparation - make sure there are no lumps.

Add milk whilst still stirring try to reach the consistency of a nice medium thick sauce, keep mixing adding more milk if required until it boils - do not over boil and keep mixing on a low heat. I cannot tell you how much Mum went on about the mixing in the Pod Cook.

I ended up using 1/2 a pint.

Introduce the freshly washed and chopped parsley to the sauce whilst continually mixing adding milk more milk if it looks like it is thickening too much.

After 3 minutes on the boil remove the pan from the heat.

At this point take your fish out of the oven.

Remove the top layer of silver foil and put it back in the oven so it can go golden being careful not to over cook it.

Bring both your beans and potatoes to the boil - once boiling put some olive oil in a frying pan and be generous.

Chop 4 to 5 cloves of garlic in into medium slices.

Fry until golden - NB. Do not burn your garlic as it will make it taste bitter, once golden add the oil with garlic to the beans and potatoes and return to your fish which should be a pale pinky colour when ready.

Plating up:

With tongs or your serving spoon and fork place the beans in the centre of the plate leaving the water behind.

Place the fillet of fish on top of the beans put the potatoes around the side of the plate then slice the remaining half a lemon for decoration on the other side.

Pour your sauce over your fish and pour some more in the other corner of your plate.

All that is left is for you to enjoy your meal.

I want to thank Mama for a great Pod Cook which appears below, Uncles Gene and Clive for the fish and the gutting and filleting lesson, young Sam Barr my photographer and first mate for all of his help and photography, I want to thank Doug Woodrow for his technical advice and last but not least my lovely Chloe for her support and who loves the fact that I have discovered my kitchen.

Pod Cook:

Rainbow Trout Pod Cook

Preceded by a live kitchen counter version of "Before I Die" the song title has nothing to do with the food.

Paella

2008-04-17T02:30:00.000+01:00

Hello and welcome to Cooking With Mother.

Today's podcook is all about Spain's national dish La Paella - now this meal should take about an hour but it took me two; this was because I have never cut up a whole chicken for cooking before or ever cleaned squid.
Mum did suggest a bit late in the podcook that preparing all of your ingredients before the cook can save lots of time - this podcook does not follow that plan and is really ideal for the beginner like me.

Please bear in mind I am making a Spanish dish with ingredients from a Sommerfield supermarket in Horncastle Lincolnshire which was short on prawns and fish stock which Tesco helped me out with.
I brought my paellera up from Acton, London and rustled up this classic recipe in my mates cottage in Asterby.

You don't need a paellera but it is best. So you know one can make do with a large frying pan so long as the base is flat, mum chats a bit about this in the p.c.

Cooking With Mother is a learning curve for me even as a singer songwriter used to recording music - recording my food preparation is very different unlike over dubbing a guitar in the studio this thing is more of a live performance.
I endeavoured to be more descriptive in this podcook than the last as was mama.

This simple paella is a real winner so please download it pop it in your iPod and cook in stereo, it came out a treat.

Please click here for the full paella podcast or each part separately below and buen provecho.

Best

M
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Paella
Cooking Time 1hr but it took me 2hrs.

Ingredients:

olive oil
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
1 chicken
4 squids
frozen peas
frozen beans
saffron or food colouring
fish stock
1 red and 1 green pepper
1 tomato
4 large prawns
A bag of american long grain rice

Utensils:

1 pallera (paella dish) or large frying pan
1 chopping board
a sharp knife

Extras:

A nice green salad lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes and onion tossed in salt, olive oil and vinegar is always great on the side.
A nice bottle of rioja or moscatel and a jug of cold iced water.
A bowl of fruit for desert.
Coffee and a brandy or a lovely cold glass of moscatel - port or any desert wine.

ps. I will try to edit express versions of these podcooks sometime but for now these are just live please use your pause button and fast forward you can do this in your own time.
Please do comment if you feel inclined and let us know how you got on cooking with mother.
If you feel you would like to share a dish of your mothers please feel free to submit your podcook to me the address for your submissions is podcook(at)cookingwithmother.com

On Tuesday Paella

2008-04-14T01:16:00.000+01:00

Hi

On Tuesday I am going to attempt my Mums famous paella, the only thing you will need is a "paellera"
The Paellera dish is not necessary but it is better with one so go find one..

See you Tuesday - Mum is in Suffolk and I am hanging out in Lincolnshire - get your paella dish now!

Best

M
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Vindaloo

2008-04-12T00:12:00.000+01:00