Recipe: warm salad of pork with black pudding

Ingredients
One teaspoon of grain mustard
Three tablespoons olive oil
One tablespoon white wine vinegar
Pinch of salt
A little butter and olive oil for frying
One pork fillet around 200g sliced in to medallions about 1/2cm thick
Half a red onion finely diced
One apple finely diced
60g black pudding diced
One handful red chard
One handful of rocket
Small handful torn basil

Method
Start with the dressing by mixing together the mustard, olive oil, white wine vinegar and salt.

Heat a large frying pan. When hot, add the butter and olive oil for frying and flash fry the pork, red onion, apple and black pudding until the pork is cooked. Turn the ingredients to ensure even cooking is acheived, do this gently so that the apple and black pudding dont disintegrate, remove from the pan into a large bowl.

Add the red chard, rocket and basil, season with the dressing and mix all of the ingredients together, check the seasoning, serve the salad in a bowl, this also works well with a poached egg on top.

Recipe: Sardines, parmesan salad

Ingredients

Olive oil
Eight cherry tomatoes on the vine
Maldon sea salt, Ground black pepper
Balsamic reduction
Butter
Four sardines
One diced red onion
One handful Black olives
Diced cucumber
One handful rocket
One handful red chard
One handful Endive
Fresh Parmesan

Method

Heat a frying pan, add a little olive oil, add the tomatoes and season. gently colour the tomatoes and add a little balsamic reduction, remove from the heat
Heat a second pan and add the olive oil, add the sardines and fry, when nearly cooked add a little butter and remove from the heat, this will allow the sardines to finish cooking in the natural juices.
In a bowl mix the red onion, garlic, cucumber and leaves, dress with a little olive oil and season.
Shave the fresh parmesan on to the salad and finsh with the roast tomatoes.
Top the salad with the sardines and pour over some of the cooking juices, finish with a wedge of fresh lemon.