Fun, Friends, Gnocchi and Street Parties

This weekend was the best weekend I have had in a while, I really let go and relaxed and relased all my built up tension and now I feel uber happy! I think it was the excess Prosecco and the silly wana twerk / pose / pretend we are in bling ring times = EPIC LOL's all round.

On Saturday I headed to my Camille's for a delicious prosseco breakfast she cooked up for Bec and I, in pre big party day feast.

Camille cooked us baby tomatoes in vinaigrette, with scrambled eggs on sourdough. Shortly afterwards we consumed 3 bottles of Prosecco decided it was time for us to make our way down to the end of summer Shoreditch street party where Frankie Knuckles DJ'd the afternoon away.

Babes, tunes, gin and laughs -Overall a great day/ night! - thanks Dolls xx

So your proberly wondering where does the food story come in? So..after reflecting on such a great weekend with my ladies Bec & Camille I was thinking of home and longing to eat some traditional Italian food the way my nonna cooks it!  With my thinking cap on and safe knowledge that I can boil  potatoes, I made gnocchi arabiatta the old fashion way! Potatoes, egg , flour and love!

After mashing the potatoes, mixing in the egg and flour, we rolled them out and chopped them up. Then I cooked them the way nonna had taught me..wait till they float to the top Cassie!
They were soft and yummy! Enjoy the pictures :)
 




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Kep, Cambodia - Home of the Kampot Green Pepper Crab!

Last night we took a trip down memory lane and went back to Kep Cambodia.  Some of you may or may not know that last year Stu and I backpacked around South East Asia, we travelled up from the Philippines, to Singapore, Cambodia, and Vietnam and back down to Thailand.  Kep is well-known fishmongers town, on the south coast of Cambodia just off the border of Vietnam, with more fishnets than the backstreets of Soho London or Amsterdam’s red light district. This town in particular known as Kep is renowned for its Kampot Green pepper.

Crab Wars in the sink!

Fact: Green pepper used to be the number one pepper in the world and is the key ingredient in many French restaurants.  Ask WIKI

2 crabs boiling up!

SO. I think you get where I am going for last nights theme dinner?  Kep – Cambodia. We did what we could with the blue swimmer crabs and the peppers’ we could find at ASDA and came up with these bad boys.

Between the crab fights in the sink, grating ginger on our new “fan-dangle” grater, we picked up the other weekend, we managed to successfully pull off one delicious pepper crab Cambodian styles, white buns, rice and all.

We loosely followed this recipe, with the addition of a few how–to video’s on youtube on how to clean a crab and remove the apron. Check this recipe out!

 Hello in Cambodian - Sous-dey! 

 I did learn from our last crab adventure that, chicken broth or stock is a good way to get the crab soft & juicy. - In case you wanted to know!

In other #cassieskitchen news, I am very happy and excited about my new job, I have been at Covent Garden for 3 weeks and I am learning so much and taking it all in! 

Big shout out to Stu this week, he brought me an Ipad so I can blog more now, as I am not at home as much anymore!

Check out more pics here of the latest  adventures of #cassieskitchen on pinterest.

FYI if you are a candy crush addict check this out. Bloody hilarious. :)

Later kids xx 

Cass

SUGAR CRUSH!!!!