Live Cooks with Meat Smoke Fire

Saturday 31st July 2021

This week we cook a dessert Lexie made last week, a starter we just love, and a new dish for us.

• Warm pigeon salad – pigeon breasts are very much underrated, we love them warm on a salad.
• Stuffed baked sweet potato – stick sweet potato stuffed with super tasty veg.
• Crunchy chocolate chip cookies – made with rice flour for a bit of extra crunch.

Saturday 23rd July 2021 – A bit of a mix

There’s no real theme this week, just a few dishes we have enjoyed over the last few weeks on our holidays.

We’ll cook:

• Dirty Nduja Scallops – spicy Italian sausage paired with scallops, cooked in the shell on the coals.
• Yaki Udon – why not get the wok and some noodles cooking.
• A-Pollo-11 chicken – a new rub from LuncheonMuncheon. We managed to be at the launch of this rub, by chance and then this week Jeff Bezos took his rocket into space. It just seemed like a good idea.

Saturday 26th June 2021 – Picnic week

We thought we would cook up a few dishes you could take on a picnic:

• Bacon and cheese scuffins – you have to try these, they’re delicious.
• Pizzetta – small pizzas, ideal for a picnic.
• Meringue for a pavlova – this recipe is from Sue Stoneman. Give her a follow, she’s a fabulous cook.

Saturday 19th June 2021 – Father’s Day

A cook to celebrate the dads and what they’d probably want to be eating.

• Loaded potato skins – baked jackets with cheese, bacon, jalapeno and some spring onion.
• Tomahawk steaks cooked two ways – a sear on a cast iron grid, and a reverse sear on a cast-iron plancha, there’s always more than one way to do something.
• Smokey mash – rich, creamy and slightly smoked.
• Red spicy slaw – we serve this at our classes and it’s always a winner.

Saturday 12th June 2021 – Korean BBQ

Everyone seems to love my Korean Chicken Wings so we thought we would do a couple more Korean dishes. We’re planning the following:

• Korean chicken thigh skewers.
• Korean marinaded skirt steak – part of the bibimbap recipe but could be served separately.
• Bibimbap – a rice bowl topped with several tasty toppings and a bibimbap sauce.

Saturday 5th June 2021 – Breakfast and cookies

Who doesn’t like a bit of street food for breakfast? So here are two dishes we love which are really simple but packed with flavour. And to top it off, some cookies.

1. Shakshuka – a North African egg and tomato dish, great for breakfast but also pretty nice all day long.
2. Jian Bing – this is a very traditional Chinese breakfast dish of spicy pancakes.
3. Cornish Fairing Ginger cookies – simple but very tasty.

Saturday 22nd May 2021 – Curry Week

With the weather still a little chilly, we decided to do another curry week.

We cooked:

1. Vegetable biryani, a great rice dish, packed with flavour
2. Mango chicken curry, sweet but also spicy, the methi leaves added at the end add a real bitterness.
3. Vegetable samosas, a great side dish to a Big Green Egg curry.
4. Naan, you must try making your own.

Saturday 15th May 2021 – Skirt and more skirt

Celebrating the recipes from Genevieve Taylor’s superb new cookbook, Foolproof BBQ.

We changed her recipes a little and cooked the following dishes:

• Dirty skirt nachos – what’s not to love about these as an appetiser.
• Asian skirt kebabs with sesame egg noodles.
• Chipotle wings and corn – not one of her recipes.

Saturday 8th May 2021 – Skewer week

I got my hands on two great cookbooks this week, Skewered by Marcus Bawden and Cooking on the Big Green Egg. We also launched the LetzQ Tandoor Ring in the UK (and sold out instantly).

We, therefore, thought we would do a skewer theme to the live cook. We cooked the following 6 recipes:

• Gnocchi skewers with parmesan and truffle oil.
• Duck skewers on the LetzQ Rotisserie with a siracha and honey glaze.
• Parmjits chicken tikka on the LetzQ Tandoor Ring.
• Green tandoor lamb neck on LetzQ Tandoor Ring.
• Paratha flatbread (not on skewers).

Saturday 1st May 2021 – Fish week

Lots of you requested we cooked some more fish, especially trout. So here we are, a week of fish and seafood.

The dishes we cooked were:

• Spanish style stuffed squid – stuffed with chorizo, tomatoes, onions and rice.
• Grilled trout – stuffed with dill and onions on a bed of fennel and tomatoes, the recipe from Mark at SmokedFineFood.co.uk.
• Quick cured, plank smoked mackerel – a very quick cure to firm the fish before smoking it on a plank.

Saturday 24th April 2021 – Buns and baps

We decided to make things a little simpler this week. And who doesn’t love a bun or a bap full of BBQ?

We cooked:

• Jackfruit tacos – jackfruit has a similar texture to meat when cooked. Here we spice it up and simmer it before serving in a taco with avocado (which I forgot on the live cook), coriander, pickled red onions and a chilli sauce.
• Korean pork belly with kimchi, in a semi-brioche roll.
• Pan fried whitebait in a homemade onion and chorizo roll.

Saturday 17th April 2021 – Italian Pasta Week

People seem to be liking the idea of travelling around the world of food, while we are all unable to travel. Many of you requested pasta so how about a whole week of pasta.

Our three dishes are going to be:

• Lasagne, baked with a touch of smoke, just how it should be made.
• Spaghetti Vongole, spaghetti tossed with clams, garlic, cherry tomatoes, chilli and wine. We absolutely love this dish and make it all the time on the Egg or OFYR.
• Chestnut and pancetta ravioli with a sage browned butter. We’ll use homemade pasta to make the ravioli.

Saturday 10th April 2021 – Greek Week

This week we were inspired by recipes from Greece.

Our three dishes are going to be:

• Grilled octopus with squid in lentils – don’t be scared of this, it’s not difficult
• Honey and sesame halloumi with a pea and spinach salad
• Chicken and pork souvlaki skewers