For the love of food

Cooking is beginning to look like a more regular affair. Most of the adrenaline lies in the delivery however, not so much the cooking itself. Plating, presentation and timing.

Dinner was an eggplant mushroom quinoa risotto with white wine reduction and ramekin portions of a cauliflower gratin. The family gave a unanimous thumbs up, which is about the best feedback to receive. The cauliflower gratin can be improved. I should try to follow recipes a little closer and not wing it half the time - the exception being how much wine to add in a dish (hahaha). I loved that the risotto had the delicate aroma and sweetness of the wine. Should have added some saffron like I did the previous time - the fragrance and colour a few strands of the spice lends to the dish is really quite extraordinary. 

In older news, the molten lava cake was 80% successful. It left the oven a couple of minutes early. Two more minutes would have made all the difference. So a bite-sized bit of the chocolate-y goodness had a too-fragile shell. And I forgot to add coffee liqueur to the mix. No wonder it felt like there was something missing. Well, more to drink then.