A "light bite" of smoked mackerel and bacon cakes is well-executed, the cakes substantive, the filling quality, the flavours clear, and the accompanying leaves given a good, spiky dressing.
Smoked mackerel and bacon cakes SERVES 4 400g floury potatoes 150g smoked streaky bacon 3 spring onions 1 tbsp olive oil or melted bacon fat 250g smoked mackerel flesh oil for cooking flour for dusting lemon halves, to serve Peel the potatoes and boil them in deep, salted water.
This last appears at dinner with a rich bacon polenta cake and a poached egg.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Beef tartare; fried oysters; applewood-smoked bacon; crab cake; wagyu and Kobe beef steaks; baked Alaska.
Main dishes include spit-roasted suckling pig with citrus and honey glaze and crisp potato; grilled rack of lamb with bay leaf, paprika and fennel marmalade; and roasted saddle of rabbit with smoked bacon, chickpea cake, spinach and grainy mustard butter.
Once the bride, in a bit of performance art, had smashed the inaugural piece of cake into her husband's mouth (to great applause), the party continued with dancing and a midnight show of fireworks, followed by yet another smorgasbord of treats including a three-tiered bacon bar, laden with three kinds of bacon, a bacon maple cake, cigars and bourbon.
"You're still thinking about the maple-bacon funnel cake, aren't you?" June 17 , 2015
BACON-POTATO CAKE Adapted from Monkey Bar Time: 1 1/2 hours Unsalted butter for pan 3 pounds Idaho potatoes, peeled and sliced thin Salt and freshly ground black pepper 16 thin slices slab bacon, about 8 ounces 8 ounces Gruyere cheese, shredded.
