Possibly the best lamb I have ever had arrived with us next, as the third course of our Food & Wine Matching Workshop with the team from Roux at Parliament Square. In total, the dish was: rack of Herdwick lamb, herb crumb, fondant potato, white onion purée and summer peas – cooked to perfection. Now [...]
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James MacLellan
Having opened the food & wine matching workshop with the team of Roux at Parliament Square on such a successful pairing (see part one!), maintaining that for a second dish was a challenge. Here we had smoked and cured Gressingham duck with preserved cherries and hawthorn blossom. The words don’t quite do it justice, it [...]
This was such a treat for us! We were perched in Roux at Parliament Square (needless to say it’s an amazing venue) with a team of seriously top class chefs with their bang on-trend, wow-packed creations alongside a range of truly delicious wines. So, we were fully primed to welcome the first dish of the [...]
Christmas Muffins Just as a famous Nestlé spherical confection can advertise itself as ‘the lighter way to enjoy chocolate’, so, perhaps, these beauties could be pitched as ‘the lighter way to enjoy mince pies’? In all honesty, a mince pie muffin is likely only a little healthier than the regular pie version but, really, this is [...]
Jascots’ Senior Sales Executive and Food & Wine Matching Guru James MacLellan recently hosted a winemaker’s lunch at The Providores with Gordon Russell of Esk Valley, and was so enthused by the whole experience that he couldn’t resistwriting this fabulous and enticing blog!! Gordon is clearly proud of this artisan estate’s strapline ‘handcrafted wines’ and [...]