This is not intended to be a cooking website.It is a collection of recipes some I created, some from my nan, friends and some from chefs which Ive made notes to help me remember them.
Think of this as a collation of all my scraps of paper, notebooks etc
Pre-soak 25g porcini mushrooms in a bowl of 250ml boiling water for 25 minutes.
Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in the pressure cooker and add 2 diced carrots and 450g mushrooms and fry on a medium heat for around 5 minutes.
Drain and finely chop the porcini mushrooms (keeping the liquid), before frying in the pressure cooker for 5 minutes with the fresh mushrooms.
Add 2 pints of vegetable stock, 5 tablespoons dry sherry, 2 tablespoons tomato puree, 100g pearl barley and the porcini soaking liquid and simmer for 30 minutes.