member blog: Danny
Danny
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Jamie's Office
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6th Jul 2004
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On a mission to learn more about food, life and the meaning of!
Danny's blog posts
lunch with my friend gennaro
Tue 27 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
Hi Everyone,
You may have seen the moblog images from a few weeks ago that were taken at Gennaro’s house. I was invited for lunch and I must say it was one of the most memorable lunches that I have had in a very long time! The food was so simple and incredibly tasty – each dish lovingly prepared by our Gennaro. Grilled aubergines and courgettes and pickled vegetables to start and endless pizzas cooked in front of me in Gennaro’s wood fired oven. Of course my favourite one was the chili pizza. Gennaro also baked bread for us in the afternoon. I brought the bread to the office to share with everyone and it lasted for days.
The pictures do not do justice to how beautiful Gennaro’s backyard is. He has built a little piece of Italy complete with a grape vine in the heart of London. Thank you Gennaro for one of the most memorable lunches that I have had for a very long time.
Regards
Danny
marathon update!
Fri 23 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
Hi everyone,
The marathon runners fly out a week today (30th October) and this week we have all been working hard with last minute training preparations and raising as much money as we can for Fifteen Foundation. Yesterday Louisa and I made Gennaro’s pumpkin risotto and Fifteen’s panzanella for over 50 of Jamie’s staff. We also had a cake sale and raised Ł450 which is outstanding! Thank you to all of our colleagues who turned up for the lunch to support us. I have never cooked risotto for this many people before and this lesson for me from this is that the addition of the pumpkin made the risotto a little bit more stodgy then I would have liked. We roasted the squash before with rosemary, garlic and oil and it was very well cooked when we added it to the risotto. Everyone said that it tasted good which is the main thing.
This morning the marathon runners were treated to a special breakfast at Fifteen with James Cracknell. James gave us some great tips on running the race and how to get through the pain barrier. As well as this he also gave us a great tip which is to ensure that we all take a stroll to the finishing line for the race in Central Park on the day before the race. This way we can then visualise getting to the end of the race. We also had some of the new apprentices and graduates at the breakfast and it was great to meet some of the new intake. James also commented to me that he enjoyed meeting the apprentices as well.
As always the apprentices were the stars of the show and Mark who has just joined us gave us some great advice. He said that in his life with some of the challenges that he has faced he has set his mind to achieve short term goals and this has helped him to cope. His advice to all of us was to focus on something in the not too distant landscape to focus on and that this will get us to the finishing line. Wise words from a young person and ones that I will remember as I am running in New York especially given the fact that Mark is the very reason why we are running in the first place.
Thanks and regards
Danny
p.s thank you to those of you on Jamie’s site who have donated so far
How to donate
http://www.justgiving.com/fifteennymarathon/
The graduates from Fifteen who we are running for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMomE03B … re=channel
A fun video of the runners!
http://www.youtube.com/fifteentv#p/u
ben the intern at Fifteen
Thu 22 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
Hi everyone,
Great news that we have Ben on board as an intern at Fifteen. Ben is from Boston and he has very kindly agreed to write a blog for us whilst he is here. Check it out when you get a chance:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/blogger/benfifteen
Cheers
Danny
beyondbakebeans.com
Mon 19 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
Hi everyone,
Twiiter is a great way to connect with people and recently I have made a new friend, Fiona who runs a the beyondbakedbeans website - http://www.beyondbakedbeans.com/
The site is a great resource for students who are keen to learn to cook and all of the information on the site is also very relevant for anyone who is starting out in the kitchen. Check it out when you get a chance, nice work Fiona!
Thanks and regards
Danny
thank you family for supporting the marathon
Fri 16 Oct 2009GENERAL BLOG
Hi everyone,
News just in that my sister back in Aus will be holding a dinner party through http://www.dinner4good.com/ Thank you so much for this. My brother's girlfriend is also throwing a good old fashioned Aussie barbie to raise money for the marathon runners as well. The team fly out two weeks today and there is a big fundraising drive over the next few weeks. Next Thursday some of the marathon runners and I are cooking lunch for the staff and holding a cake sale as well. I will post up some images in my blog and also the recipes for the food that we cook.
I hear on the grapevine that some of the forum members are throwing dinner parties as well. Thank you guys and to my family as well - we all reallly appreciate this!
How to donate
http://www.justgiving.com/fifteennymarathon/
The graduates from Fifteen who we are running for
http://www.youtube.com/user/jamieoliver … XipxCSUi5U
A fun video of the runners!
http://www.youtube.com/fifteentv#p/u
Thanks and regards
Danny
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