Bloggerview with Hardeep Singh Kohli

Hardeep Singh Kohli

Name and occupation
Hardeep Singh Kohli. Jack of All Trades. 

What would you like to plug?

A gap

Name your three desert island ingredients

I don't really do desert...


Your best cooking tip.
You learn more from you culinary defeats than victories

What is your favourite snack?

Cheese and pickle sandwich

What would you have for your last supper? 

My mum's lamb curry

What foodstuff would you banish to room 101?

Chicken breast. Tasteless. Pointless.

What's your favourite restaurant?

Too many to choose! Murano, Fat Duck and Tayyabs...

What's your favourite tipple? 

Vodka. Ketel One.

Which book gets you cooking ?

Elizabeth Luard, Peasant Cookery

What comfort food comforts you when you are sick?

Bacon sandwiches

Kitchen implement you can't do with out.

My global knives...

What's your dream dinner party line-up? 

They know who they are...

What is your favourite cooking aroma ?

My mum's lamb curry...

And what would you cook for them?

Seared scallops; roast lamb with smoked aubergine. And a pavlova.

What was your childhood teatime treat?

We didn't have teatime treats...

What was the first thing you learnt to cook?

Scrambled eggs

What was there first thing you taught your children to cook? 

Roast chicken

What was your mothers signature dish and do you try to copy it?

Lamb curry. I have tried and failed...

What would you make to impress your partner?

The bed...

Where do you go for the best fish and chips?

Jaconelli's on Maryhill rd in glasgow

What was your most memorable meal?

Fat Duck...

What was your biggest culinary disaster?

Putting salt rather than sugar into cranachan.
And burning the lamb the first time I invited angela Hartnett round to dinner!

What's the worst meal you've ever had?

Asia de Cuba on St Martins Lane...

What's the most outlandish thing you've ever eaten?

Raw walrus dipped in rancid seal oil?
Whale blubber?
Braised squirrel?
Chitterlings?

Who's your food hero/food villain?

Hero, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. 
I don't have a villain...


Nigella or Delia?
Why make me choose?


Gin or Vodka?
Vodka


Muesli or fry-up?
Fry up...


Wine or beer?
Beer

KFC or Burger King?
Neither

What's the best/worst thing about the British restaurant scene?

Too faddy and fashionable

What do you think will be the next big thing?

Brazilian food...

What would you do if you could choose any other career?

Chef

What do you have for Christmas lunch?

The usual...


Make a wish
Ok.