Herbs and Spices

I don't know very much about herbs and spices, like what are the best combinations for what dish. My method is to open the bottle, take a whiff and think "That will do". The aim of this weeks cooking was to try and learn a little bit more about herbs and spices.

What I learnt: You can buy solid blocks of ricotta cheese in the deli.

The Theme

Herbs and Spices

The Menu

Entree

Herbed Ricotta

 Before

After

Chef's Rating: 7 out of 10 Ricotta Blocks

It looks damn fancy and I would serve it up at a party. However it lacked flavour, since all the flavour was just piled on top. Probably need to work out a way to inject the flavour deeper.

Herbed and Spiced Mini Quiches

I put all spice in the pastry because why not?

Chef's Rating: 8 out 9 Spice Weasels 

I was actually quite proud of these. Really simple and rather tasty. Everyone loves a good quiche....except for those weird people who don't like eggs. 

Main

11 herbs and spices pork with herbed sweet potato and herbed Rice

I love close up pictures of food

Chef's Rating: 7.5 out of 10 little piggies

This was alright. Amazingly for a Herbs and Spices theme it actually looks a bit bland. It was all quite simple, although you should never underestimate how long it will take you to coat your pork. Hours!

Drinks

Spiced Rum

Chef's Rating...... Ummmmm

I'm really dropping the ball here. It's been too long and too many cocktails have been consumed. I have no idea what this is or what it tasted like but my powers of deduction have lead me to believe that it has pineapple juice and spiced rum in it. 

Something with Mezcal

Sadly it's pretty much the same story for this one, but there might be lime in there!

Signing off for another week. May you all be sleeping peacefully.