I love my Ian. Lots. So for some reason, I think it's a good idea to try and poison him on his birthday. I actually attempted to cook for a whole week as part of his birthday, but I only have photographic evidence of one day. I attempted a goats cheese pannacotta, something I'd eaten when on holiday in Oxford with my mum. I chose far too mild a goats cheese so it lost the real flavour which was a shame, but it set well (too well, it refused to come out of it's dish). There's thankfully no photo of this, cos it looked pretty boring really.
One of the successful dishes was halloumi and sweetcorn fritters. They were yummy, but we ate far too many of them to count as a starter!
One of the mains I tried was lamb wellingtons - I put small lamb steaks and some redcurrant jelly into puff pastry and cooked - they were good, although the pastry went a little soggy in places.
I can't remember what else I cooked that week, I'm pretty sure he got steak (which always goes down well) and probably a baked camembert (my quick easy 'safe' starter). He's still alive, so I couldn't a have done that badly!
Just as I was about to post this, I found another photo - now, if I'm honest, I'm not entirely sure what it is, but are those puff pastry stars cute (I think Ian cooked this, as it's slow cooked ox cheek and I don't know how to make that - but I definitely made the cute stars with the leftover pastry, probably from the lamb parcels).
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