Posts Tagged ‘Mad Scientist cookery’

After our Chocolate Wine Slush, we were invited to try the cheese board, to which some of us hesitantly said "yes", and "perhaps", but Nikki just came out and firmly said, "today is not a day for saying no" and went ahead and ordered. Spurred on by her enthusiasm, I decided to have one too. [...]

It's time for pudding! I love pudding. The dessert section of the menu was rather good, as you'd expect. My favourite dessert was the first one, which was actually two on the same plate; a Bavarois of Lychee and Mango, and a Blackcurrant Sorbet topped with a wafer. The bavarois was deliciously sweet and fruity, [...]

It's almost a shame that the opening dish of the Fat Duck tasting menu is already so famous, because the familiarity of the idea almost made it disappointing. I think it would have been more exciting if I hadn't been expecting to see it at the start, but it was still a lot of fun [...]

In case any of you were wondering about that thing I tweeted on Sunday, no, I haven't suddenly converted to Catholicism. I'm still hampered by a personal lack of faith as far as mystical entities with omnipotent powers are concerned, so that's not likely to be happening any time soon. As a matter of fact, [...]