You’re invited to the Channel Island of Jersey, just off the Brittany coast–to a special charity event for Diabetes Jersey at the Merton Hotel, Oct 11 or 12, 2017 (it’s repeated Wednesday & Thursday evenings).
Recipes and Recollections–A Delicious Night with Robin Ellis
Here’s the info from the Merton Hotel’s website.
(My books.)
On stage with me will be Robert Hall, a senior BBC correspondent, who will pepper me with questions while I season various demonstration dishes.
We’ll talk inevitably about Poldark, cooking, diabetes, France and Fawlty Towers perhaps…
(Robert was John Cleese’s “co-star of choice” when he appeared at the Opera House for his sell-out Audience with John Cleese evenings.)
The one vegetable I will not be cooking sadly is a Jersey Royal potatoes.
I remember my mother preparing these jewels of the potato family back in the fifties, when we’d enjoy a feast of “Jersey Royals” with a piece of white fish from the Macfisheries shop at the entrance to the Golders Green Tube Station.
They needed little addition–white sauce would have been an insult to the delicate taste. Perhaps a knob of butter and a sprinkle of parsley. Ma used to serve them unpeeled.
Delicious–but not a goer for me now.
Potatoes are one of the “whites” I avoid as a type 2 diabetic; their concentrated carbohydrate puts them off-limits.
Others are: white rice, white pasta, white bread and white flour—refined carbs.
Don’t lose heart though–I shall be cooking up a storm…BROWN basmati rice is fine occasionally, as is wholewheat pasta, certain whole wheat and rye breads and chick pea flour.
I’ll be preparing the most popular recipe in my entire repertoire: No-potato fishcakes:
Also planning on preparing no meat, too-simple-to-believe Red Bean Chili:
A delicious black olive dip from Provence called Tapinade:
And a lovely cold summer soup–Chilled Cucumber, gifted to me by my old friend and fellow Poldark alumnus, Donald Douglas (the fiery and thoroughly untrustworthy Captain McNeil, who pursued me as Ross Poldark, up hill and down dale, with no success–so finally gave up–and settled in a house an hour north of us here.
Stuffed peppers are also an easy favorite I’ll be demonstrating:
Dinner is included in the event– and the kitchens of the Merton hotel are putting on a banquet with recipes from my cookbooks–so you can try them out!
I’ll be autographing books too, of course.
Here’s further info for reservations and tickets.
I’m looking forward to my first visit to Jersey and so is Meredith, my wife.
On va se voir bientôt, j’espère!
See you there…!