Jedi Raid on Borough Market

Saturday would prove to be a day of two halves, and maybe a period of extra time thrown in for good measure. Let's kick-off with the first-half.

The day started early, Lady LDN needed to get her hair done and as has become the practise I took advantage of this early start to the weekend, by mounting a Jedi raid on Borough market, partly due to being up and energised and also the fact that I singed my forehead a little messing around on very fast RIBs the day before I wanted to avoid the midday sun.

Fast forward a few hours and I'm back at base, fully fed courtesy of Maria's cafe, with 3KG of Ethiopian coffee (for the office's Coffee Snobs Club), two stuffed Chicken breasts (my food for the week), some cakes for the girl's return, and a veritable feast of goodies for Sunday lunch, more of which later - but the centre-piece are three substantial rib-eye steaks from the Ginger Pig butchers...

...and here's the killer, I hadn't even missed Saturday kitchen.

The Jedi raid on Borough Market certainly comes highly recommended from me, when I arrived just around 8.30am - there was only a few professional shoppers like myself and most of the traders were up and ready - perhaps even earlier can be achieved, I don't truly know what time it opens - the website says 11am - but that is clearly propoganda to keep the tourists at bay for a few hours. Monmouth Coffee was still rammed!

Sunday Lunch: Halloumi & Avocado Salad

So not exactly a very Sunday-like Sunday lunch, but I caught sight of this halloumi salad on TheFastestIndian's blog and what with Saturday taken with a barbecue and it being the end of the month - this would make a tasty and refreshing Sunday lunch. Another factor was that me and the better half we're spending one of those horrible weekends apart, so the a simple salad would minimise time and mess created in the kitchen.

Have to say I was surprised how good this was, my griddle pan is getting nicely seasoned too, as the halloumi had a nice smoky touch where they'd been chargrilled.

Breakfast: Bacon, Liver and Onion Roll

In recent weeks Borough Market has become my regular Saturday morning haunt and breakfast has taken the form of a very excellent Bacon, liver, onion roll with watercress and dijon mustard mayo from Maria's greasy spoon cafe right in the centre of the main market - usually washed down with a cup of Monmouth coffee.

This weekend I was in Portsmouth, so attempted to recreate this tasty weekend breakfast treat myself. The results weren't entirely successful, but still a good breakfast. Points to improve for next time (possibly tomorrow morning).

Bacon too thin
Liver sliced too thick
I think Maria's may use more expensive Calf's liver, I used lamb's.
Liver was a touch overcooked.