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DENVER, December 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PDC Energy, Inc. ("PDC", the "Company", "we" or "us") (NASDAQ:PDCE) today reported its 2016 capital budget and production forecast.
2016 Highlights
CEO Commentary
Bart Brookman, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Our ability to execute our 2015 plan has positioned us to carry a lot of momentum into 2016. Our drilling program remains extremely flexible and we are committed to continue delivering shareholder value in these challenging times through the development of our best-in-class assets and continued focus on our cost structure. The balance sheet and financial strength of the Company will remain our top priorities in 2016. We are extremely excited about the prospect of once again delivering peer leading production growth in a safe, responsible manner, while continuing to test new well designs and completion methods. With the continued hard work and dedication of our employees, we are positioned for another strong year at PDC."
2016 Capital Plan and Production Guidance
PDC's 2016 capital budget, of $475 million at the mid-point, is focused on continuing to provide value-driven production growth by exploiting the Company's extensive inventory of high rate-of-return projects in the Wattenberg Field. Capital spending is expected to be weighted to the front half of 2016 as the Company completes in-process wells spud in 2015. The Company remains very flexible in terms of rig activity and capital deployment due to short-term rig contracts and held-by-production acreage.
PDC's 2016 production guidance of 20.0 to 22.0 million barrels of oil equivalent ("MMBoe"), or 54,650 to 60,100 Boe per day, represents an increase of 35 to 40 percent over anticipated 2015 levels. The commodity mix is expected to be approximately 42 percent oil, 20 percent NGLs and 38 percent natural gas. The mix is slightly gassier than 2015 due to a number of higher GOR Inner Core Wattenberg wells being turned-in-line in the second half of 2015 and first half of 2016. The Company's long-term commodity mix expectation remains approximately 45 percent oil and 65 percent liquids.
The majority of production growth in 2016 is expected to occur in the second and third quarters while the first and fourth quarters are expected to show relatively flat sequential quarter-over-quarter growth.
2016 Financial Positioning
PDC is projected to exit 2016 with a debt to EBITDA ratio of approximately 1.4 times and total liquidity of approximately $500 million, based upon its current $700 million borrowing base and the pricing assumptions described below. PDC's $115 million of convertible notes mature in May 2016 and the Company has elected to redeem the face value of the notes in cash with excess value above the conversion price paid in PDC common stock.
Based on the mid-point of PDC's production guidance, nearly 50 percent of 2016 expected crude oil volumes are hedged at approximately $85 per barrel and approximately 62 percent of anticipated gas volumes are hedged at nearly $3.65 per thousand cubic foot, including CIG basis swaps. The mark-to-market value of future hedges exceeds $250 million, as of November 30, 2015.
Using internal weighted-average NYMEX pricing of $53 per barrel of oil, $2.60 per Mcf of natural gas and NGL realizations of approximately 18% of NYMEX oil, the Company expects to outspend cash flow in the first half of the year and be cash flow positive in the second half. The Company anticipates the Wattenberg well-head oil differential to NYMEX to be under $8 per barrel in 2016. Using the mid-point of production guidance, a $10 per barrel change in oil price results in an approximate $40 million change to anticipated cash flow, as seen in the table below:
(1) Assumes four rig program throughout 2016; Natural gas and NGL prices held constant at $2.60 per Mcf and 18% NYMEX Oil, respectively; (2) The Company maintains flexibility to adjust capital program downward in response to lower pricing environments
Wattenberg Operations Details
In 2016, the Company plans to spend approximately $440 million running a four-rig program in the Wattenberg Field after reducing its rig count from five in November 2015. The 2016 Wattenberg budget reflects a 13 percent reduction compared to 2015 and is comprised of nearly $380 million for drilling and completions and approximately $40 million for non-operated projects. The remainder of the budget is expected to be used for leasing, workover projects and capital improvements.
The Company plans to drill standard reach lateral ("SRL"), mid-length lateral ("ERL") and extended reach lateral ("XRL") wells in 2016. Reduced drill times, from spud-to-spud, have led to an approximate 25% increase in lateral feet drilled per rig-year compared to 2015. In 2016, the Company plans to spud and turn-in-line approximately 135 and 160 wells, respectively.
Due to successful testing of new completion technologies in 2015, projected well costs are now inclusive of plug-and-perf technology and production guidance now includes an associated uplift from plug-and-perf completions of up to 15 percent. The Company plans to test the potential additive effect of AccessFrac with plug-and-perf completions but has not included any potential impact of such completions in its 2016 guidance.
Utica Operations Update
Early in 2016, PDC plans to spend approximately $34 million in the Utica to drill, complete and turn-in-line five wells. The planned activity will focus on further delineation of its southern acreage, determining the impact of well-orientation on productivity and testing improved capital efficiency of 10,000 foot laterals. All wells in the 2016 budget are expected to provide a rate-of-return in excess of the Company's cost-of-capital. Approximately 20 percent of the 2016 Utica budget is allocated for land and selective lease renewals.
Upcoming Investor Conferences
PDC is scheduled to present at the following conferences: Wells Fargo's 2015 Energy Symposium in New York on Wednesday, December 9, 2015; and the Capital One Energy Conference in New Orleans on Wednesday, December 9, 2015. An updated presentation will be posted to the Company's website, www.pdce.com, prior to the start of each conference.
About PDC Energy, Inc.
PDC Energy, Inc. is a domestic independent exploration and production company that produces, develops, acquires and explores for crude oil, natural gas and NGLs with operations in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and in the Utica Shale in southeastern Ohio. Its operations are focused on the liquid-rich horizontal Niobrara and Codell plays in the Wattenberg Field and the condensate and wet gas portion of the Utica Shale play. PDC is included in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index and the Russell 2000 Index of Companies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regarding PDC's business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in and incorporated by reference into this release are forward-looking statements. Words such as expects, forecast, guidance, anticipates, intends, plans, believes, seeks, estimates and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended to identify forward-looking statements herein, which may include statements regarding PDC's future production, cash flows, capital expenditures and projects, cost-saving initiatives, operational enhancements, rates-of-return, debt metrics, liquidity, future differentials and management's strategies, plans and objectives. However, these are not the exclusive means of identifying forward-looking statements herein. Although forward-looking statements contained in this press release reflect the Company's good faith judgment, such statements can only be based on facts and factors currently known to PDC. Consequently, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties incidental to the exploration for, and the acquisition, development, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and NGLs, and actual outcomes may differ materially from the results and outcomes discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: unanticipated changes relating to the following:
Further, PDC urges you to carefully review and consider the cautionary statements made in this press release and the Company's filings with the SEC for further information on risks and uncertainties that could affect the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations, which are incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein. The Company cautions you not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. PDC undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance occurring after the date of this release or currently unknown facts or conditions or the occurrence of unanticipated events. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
CONTACTS: Michael Edwards
Senior Director Investor Relations
Kyle Sourk
Manager Investor Relations
Despite relatively low rig activity, the Utica shows the strongest gains in production efficiency since January 2014 Baker Hughes Industries (ticker: BHI) released its weekly update on the number of rigs operating in the United States Friday, showing ten more rigs active in the country from last week. The Permian remains the most active basin in the country, but despite[Read More…]


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The Tuesday Inspiration? began in 2009 when two PB members started setting each other a challenge on a? Tuesday. Very soon afterwards, it was decided to open this up to other PB members, followed by the idea that we should not reveal what the subject is, so that other members could compare how different members view a single theme. The Tuesday Inspiration is not a contest or a challenge, but a group of people all agreeing to post their interpretation of a single theme on Tuesdays. Each week, one of the contributors sets the theme. There are now over 40 members contributing to the TI. We have only two ??rules?: don??t include the subject in the TI title or tags and please comply with standard PB guidelines on courtesy, etc. If you would like to take part, please contact Helen.
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Robin van Persie will miss "at least the next few weeks" of the season after suffering a twisted ankle in Arsenal's 2-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park on Saturday. The Dutch football federation inspected the striker's injury yesterday and it believes that he will be out for longer than originally thought by the Gunners' medical team.
The Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger, said after the game that he thought Van Persie would miss 10 days of football but it now appears that was optimistic. It is a big blow for the north London club, who were without the Dutchman for five months last season with ankle ligament damage.
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Everyday Economics: How to haggle
For all our bravado, Australians are often shy when it comes to haggling – trying to get a better price on purchases can be daunting. And yet, with banks offering discounts of 1 percentage point or more off their headline rates, there's thousands to be saved.
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Meg :
02 Apr 2014 9:43:32am
I am disappointed to hear that we are moving to a haggling society. I believe businesses should charge what they consider to be a fair price and consumers make their judgements about where they spend their money. If businesses factor in 'wiggle room' it means they are overcharging everyone who doesn't haggle.
Businesses which offer me a discount, because I am buying a number of items or am a regular customer, earn my loyalty, and my respect for their good business practice. I think that's quite different.
Martin :
02 Apr 2014 10:50:24am
we are not moving to a haggling society, we are far from it. just be grateful we are not a "tipping" society.
Tony Miller :
02 Apr 2014 9:44:55am
Good Time to haggle for white goods or any largish item is on the last Friday of the month. sale reps are often trying to get sales up for the end of month and walking into a shop with cash (amazing the power of $100 and $50 notes tried up in elastic band). The price does come down.
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02 Apr 2014 9:51:24am
after banking with Westpac since 1960 and having had several mortgages etc (all paid out early) new staff member wanted me to cut up my credit card and only wanted to lend us 38K instead of 40K we asked for. We own our small farm outright and have almost finished building our new house after previous one burned down and insurance didn't cover rebuild. No budging on interest rate and said she couldn't match that offered by credit union. Credit union was happy to lend to us so moving all our business there.
02 Apr 2014 5:37:39pm
Had similar experience with Westpac. Was glad when I could leave them behind (business closure) and do all banking with credit union now.
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02 Apr 2014 10:38:53am
Many Australians of northern European ethnic backgrounds (particularly older people) often seem to misunderstand the human or social element of haggling. The limit is reached when price pitches or the tone in which they are put become insulting, but this is not simply a matter of what happens in the particular shop. I watched open-mouthed a few years ago in Turkey while tourists haggled over quite reasonable prices in small shops for rugs that take a year to make by hand, while not being at all concerned about rug-sellers later seeing them paying higher prices for hotels, taxis, restaurant meals, factory-made carpets in fancier shops or balloon flights.
When haggling in Australia or abroad, keep in mind not just what is on offer down the road but whether there is a quality difference, how much money the sellers are making for their investment of labour, how this particular exchange relates to the wider market and the need to remain respectful at all times. If you can't do these things, what's wrong with keeping your money in your pocket until you can?
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02 Apr 2014 10:53:52am
lovely that the delightful Jessica now has a regular appearance on life matters. next time i do my grocery shopping i will ask for a 50% discount. yes, they often advertise half price specials, and if they can still turn a profit doing that, it tells us how much margin they have, and how much discount they can afford on regular prices.
Blaize :
02 Apr 2014 5:58:36pm
Keep in mind that a store's markup is influenced by over heads, RRP, wholesale buying power, competitive pricing & maketing stratagies etc. Grocery stores offer reductions that may actually be priced at or below cost. Unless it's a liquidation sale, it's not often 50% off store wide. item deals are more a marketing ploy enticing shoppers into their store on the idea that shoppers will then buy other items.
The ability to 'haggle' seems industry related. Clothing/accessory stores seem to have more scope to alter price, as do car yards, IT & whitegoods, etc. No harm in asking if the price can be bettered, but everyone seems to want a bigger slice of the pie... but there's only so much pie!
anon :
02 Apr 2014 11:36:34am
Please do not encourage this to become a haggling society!
I part own a small business in a small country town, where we do give discounts to loyal and regular customers. However, as a small family owned business the margins are really tight.
A customer recently asked if we gave pensioner discounts, and I thought to myself 'you probably own your house outright and just have yourself to feed, I'll be paying off our mortgage until my partner's 85, and I have teenage boys to feed and pay school fees for, and when you own your own business it makes a joke of minimum wages!'
And yes, you end up increasing the price of everything for everyone to account for those few bold customers who ask for a discount.
Being generous is part of good customer relations and therefore good business, but people asking for discounts is just annoying! Of course if an item is damaged that is different.
Perhaps asking if an item may ever go on sale would be more tactful, and if it is something that has been on the shelf for a while that may invite the owner to offer a discount.


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Mark Hix is striding across the dining room of Tramshed, his sixth London restaurant, palms outstretched towards the heavens. We are waiting for his long-term collaborator, the food photographer Jason Lowe, and in the meantime Hix, palms and all, is explaining how the room, a former power station turbine hall, came to be dominated by a cock and a bull.
"The architect wanted to put a mezzanine right there," he says, poking the air in the middle of the room. "But it would've looked crap. So I texted Damien [Hirst] to see if he'd do me a sculpture. I told him it was a beef and chicken place, and by the next day he'd already planned it all."
The result of that text message is a bloody great formaldehyde tank balanced on a plinth 15 foot in the air and containing a cockerel astride a bull. It's massive, I offer, rather lamely. "It's also probably one of his best," says Hix airily, as we head towards his private library-cum-cooking space above the restaurant.
The serial restaurateur and chef is better placed than most to judge, given he has a collection of YBA art to make Saatchi green. Upstairs alone, I count two Emins and a Banksy canvas, which, in true Hix style, is lent upright against a table leg on the floor (he gives favoured artists a dinner tab in exchange for having their work to display in his restaurants: "they like the PR, and I get an interesting crowd in," he says).
Maybe it's natural then, that when he came to write his latest cookbook, The Collection, a sort of 'best of' book, containing 300 recipes celebrating the finest in British cooking, he chose to illustrate it with work from the biggest names in British contemporary art (Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Michael Craig-Martin all loom large).
"When you've done seven cookbooks…" he starts to explain, before being interrupted by Jason Lowe, who is now surging up the stairs, reminding him at the top of his lungs that it is actually eight. "Eight cookbooks then," says Hix, his face unfolding into a smirk, "you want to do something different with the design."
One thing that hasn't changed, though, not for the past 11 years, since they were introduced by The Independent Magazine's then editor, is the partnership between Hix and Lowe. "I'd been doing the photography for Hix's predecessor at the Indy, Simon Hopkinson, and was summoned to meet Hix at Nobu in Canary Wharf just before he started," says Lowe, who has won two Glenfiddich awards for his food photography and directed scores of food commercials and TV programmes, including Hopkinson's latest. "I was pretty flattered when I was asked to stay on."
Since then, their "marriage", as they jokingly refer to it, has begat half a dozen books, 2,200 recipes for this magazine, and weathered the complete transformation of the British food scene. It is clear, about 10 minutes in, why they get on so well. Both have a dry, impish, sense of humour; both also seem to be in a constant hurry, whirling around each other like dervishes. "We're both spontaneous and don't mess about," says Lowe, "I have a reputation for being a bit of a grump, to be honest, but we very rarely snap at each other – because we both know what the other needs." Hix looks up from the pan in which he is frying a jalapeño pepper stuffed with crab and nods vigorously.
There is something else, though, aside from personality, which makes theirs such an enduring partnership: they both care about well-sourced, simply-cooked food. That phrase – 'well-sourced, simply-cooked' – may now be the cliché equivalent of a poke in the eye with a fork, but 11 years ago, as a culinary credo, it was almost revolutionary.
"Hix is a man who really pushed British food. When we did our book British Regional Food, we travelled all around the country finding the best producers, eating half the coastline, finding the best people making the best stuff – no one did that then, and now everyone does," say Lowe.
Hix, shyer in person than you might anticipate, deflects such praise on to the producers he champions, so much so that he sometimes seems to be playing the role of their PR man. "I ask Julian Temperley [whose Dorset cider and brandy Hix stocks] if he's got a marketing person yet and he always says the same thing: 'Don't you do that for me?'."
He may be modest about his own achievements but he is fulsome in his praise for Lowe's. "I have a hard and fast rule that you should have no more than three ingredients on a plate, or else things get lost. Jason gets that and it comes through – his pictures are unfussy and show off the food to its best advantage," he says.
To Lowe's mind, that's what good food photography is: a straightforward reflection of what a chef orf cook has created. "It is not about me imposing my creative will," he says. "Everyone thinks they are a food photographer nowadays, but it takes more than pointing a camera at a plate to be a success. You need to love food, treat it with integrity and have a deep knowledge of it – if you've never had a good risotto, don't know what one looks like, you are never going to be able to take a good photograph of it. You end up with something wishy-washy, flat."
Does Hix mind punters coming into his restaurants Instagraming every last bit of salsify and bone marrow on their plates? "Nah, not really – you have to see it is a compliment. I had one of Jason's friends in the other day and she was doing it all the way through a demo, but you get used to it," he says looking up from the pile of chocolate truffles he is building on a plate.
Do they ever get bored of creating all these recipes (four a week for The Independent, more for Esquire)? "Nah, not really," Hix scoffs. And Lowe? "I prefer doing this than any TV stuff I do. There are things I don't like shooting, of course – take these chocolate truffles, for instance. A nightmare; brown things are an absolute nightmare. But you make it work in the end."
They are an amusing double act, brimming with bonhomie . They could, I suspect, be brothers separated at birth. In fact, by the end of the interview I find myself actively trying to see if there is any topic on which they might, just possibly, disagree.
And then, as hope fades, and Hix busies himself with the spicy corn soup he's making for the shoot, Lowe and I begin chatting about Damien Hirst: "Hmm," he says sagely, "I'm not so sure about his, er, formaldehyde stuff. But don't tell Hix I said that."
Whole roast chicken
Serves 2-3
This dish was inspired by several visits to L'Ami Louis in Paris, where the food is simple and honest, respecting the quality ingredients used.
1 free-range chicken, about 1.5kg, with livers
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
A few sprigs each of thyme and rosemary
A few generous knobs of butter
For the stuffing
60g butter
1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped
100g chicken livers, chopped
2tsp chopped thyme leaves
80-100g fresh white breadcrumbs
2tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley, plus extra to serve
Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6. Season the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper. Put the herbs into the cavity. Rub butter all over the breast and legs.
For the stuffing, melt the butter in a pan. Add the onion, livers and thyme, season and cook over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes. Off the heat, mix in the breadcrumbs, parsley and seasoning.
Either use it to stuff your bird or cook separately in an ovenproof dish wrapped in foil for the last 30-40 minutes.
Put the chicken into a large roasting tin and roast in the oven, basting regularly and adding the livers to the roasting tin for the last 6 minutes or so.
Test the chicken after 1¼ hours by inserting a skewer into the thickest part of the thigh. The juices should run clear; if not, roast for a little longer.
Lift the chicken on to a warmed platter and rest in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Sprinkle with some more chopped parsley and serve with the roasted livers, stuffing, garlic sauce and straw potatoes (see below).
Baked new season garlic sauce
Makes enough for 4
4 heads of new season garlic
A few sprigs of curly parsley
½tbsp Dijon mustard
70g fresh white breadcrumbs
2-3tbsp duck fat, warmed, or the pan juices from the roast chicken
A little milk, to mix
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6. Wrap the garlic bulbs in foil and bake them in the oven for 1 hour. Unwrap and leave until cool enough to handle, then peel away any tough outer skin.
Put the garlic into a blender with the parsley, mustard, breadcrumbs and warm duck fat or chicken juices and blend until smooth. Add enough milk to give the sauce a thick pouring consistency and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with roast chicken.
Straw potatoes
Serves 4
4 large chipping potatoes, such as Yukon Gold, Spunta or Maris Piper, peeled
Vegetable or corn oil, for deep-frying
10 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
Sea salt
Using a mandolin with a shredding attachment or a sharp knife, cut the potatoes into long matchsticks, about 3mm thick. Wash them well in a couple of changes of cold water to remove the excess starch, then drain and pat dry on some kitchen paper.
Heat an 8cm-depth of oil in a deep-fat fryer or deep, heavy pan to 120-140C. Deep-fry the potatoes in manageable batches (a couple of handfuls at a time) for 2-3 minutes, then remove with a slotted spoon and drain in a colander.
Increase the temperature of the oil to 160-180C and re-fry the potatoes with the garlic slices in batches, moving them around in the pan, until golden and crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper. Sprinkle with sea salt and serve immediately.
Alternatively, you can keep the straw potatoes warm, uncovered, on a baking tray in a low oven until ready to serve. They should stay crisp but, if not, you can briefly re-fry them in hot oil.
Broad bean, pea and girolle salad
Serves 4
This is a really simple, fresh-tasting salad.
1 garlic clove, peeled and sliced
4tbsp cold-pressed rapeseed oil
A few sprigs of tarragon, leaves removed and stalks reserved
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
200-250g girolles, cleaned
200g podded peas
200g podded broad beans
A pinch of caster sugar
1tbsp cider vinegar
A handful of pea shoots (optional)
Put the garlic, oil and tarragon stalks into a wide saucepan with about 3 tablespoons of water. Season well and bring to the boil. Add the girolles, cover with a lid and cook over a low heat for 3-4 minutes, turning them every so often. Take off the heat, remove the lid and leave to cool a little.
Cook the peas and broad beans separately in boiling, salted water for a few minutes until just tender, adding a little caster sugar to the cooking water for the peas. Drain and remove the tough skins from any larger beans; leave small ones as they are.
Remove the girolles from their liquid with a slotted spoon and set aside on a plate.
To make the dressing, carefully pour off the oily part of the girolle cooking liquid into a bowl, leaving the watery liquid behind in the pan. Whisk the cider vinegar into the oil. Chop the tarragon leaves and stir these in, too. Check the seasoning.
Toss the peas and broad beans in the dressing, then spoon on to serving plates. Scatter the girolles on top, along with a few pea shoots, if using. Spoon a little more dressing over the salad and serve.
Makes 2
The idea for this came after a pea-shoot lunch we held at Hix Oyster & Chop House a few years ago.
A couple of handfuls of pea shoots, washed
50ml Plymouth gin
20ml sugar syrup
The juice of ½ a lemon
2 pea pods, to serve
Place the pea shoots in a liquidiser with 2 tablespoons of water and blend to make a smooth purée.
Half fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add the gin, pea shoot purée, sugar syrup and lemon juice and shake for 10-15 seconds.
Strain into 2 chilled martini or coupé glasses. Split the peas in their pods and push on to the side of the glasses to serve.
Hix fix
Makes 2
This has been the biggest-selling cocktail in all of the restaurants. Keith Floyd had a couple during his last lunch at the Fish House in Lyme Regis before he sadly passed away.
2 morello cherries in Somerset eau de vie
250ml sparkling wine
Place a cherry with a teaspoon or two of the cherry liqueur in the bottom of 2 champagne glasses, preferably saucers.
Top up with 125ml of sparkling wine or Champagne.
Fillet of pike with sauce Nantua
Serves 4
This is a classic French dish in which both main ingredients – pike and crayfish – come from fresh water. Pike has an unusual bone structure.
4 skinned pike fillets, each about 160-180g
Sea salt and freshly ground white pepper
16-20 live crayfish
Olive oil, for frying or roasting
A small knob of butter (optional)
Sauce Nantua (see below)
½tbsp chopped tarragon
Season the pike fillets with salt and pepper and steam for about 10 minutes. If you haven't got a steamer, preheat the oven to 190C/gas mark 5, lay the fillets in a roasting tray with about 2cm of hot water, cover with foil and cook in the oven for 15 minutes. This steaming causes the flesh to shrink a little, leaving the bones protruding so they can be pulled out with a pair of pliers or tweezers. There are lots, so be patient – it's worth it.
Cook the crayfish in simmering, salted water for 5 minutes, then plunge them into cold water. Remove the meat from the shells and the claws if they are big enough. Break the shells up a little with a heavy knife and use to make the sauce Nantua.
Cook the pike fillets again. Either fry them in olive oil for 2-3 minutes on each side, then add a small knob of butter and continue to fry them until lightly browned; or preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6, heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a roasting pan and roast them for 10-12 minutes or until lightly coloured.
Meanwhile, if necessary, simmer the sauce until it is coating consistency, stir in the tarragon and drop in the peeled crayfish for a minute to reheat them. To serve, spoon the sauce over the fish fillets.
Sauce Nantua
Serves 4
Shells of 20-24 crayfish tails
4 shallots, peeled and roughly chopped
1 garlic clove, peeled and chopped
Vegetable oil, for frying
1tbsp plain flour
>A good pinch of saffron strands
A few sprigs of tarragon
1-2tbsp tomato purée
4tbsp white wine
300ml fish stock
350ml double cream
In a large pan, fry the shells, shallots and garlic in oil for 6-7 minutes, until lightly coloured. Add the flour and stir. Add the saffron, tarragon and purée; stir well. Gradually stir in the wine and stock, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes until reduced by half.
Add the cream, bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes until reduced by half and a thick consistency.
Strain through a colander into a bowl. Remove about half a cupful of shells and blend with the sauce in a liquidiser. Use a fine-meshed sieve to strain.
Strawberry and sparkling wine jelly
Serves 4
This is a pretty posh jelly and not that cheap to make, but if you pick or buy wild or homegrown strawberries, then it's worth splashing out on Champagne or, better still, Nyetimber – the best sparkling wine produced in the UK. For a non-alcoholic version, use elderflower cordial, diluted with water or apple juice.
12g leaf gelatine (4 sheets)
700ml fine-quality sparkling wine or Champagne
50g caster sugar
120g strawberries, hulled
Thick Jersey cream, to serve
Soak the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water for a few minutes to soften. Meanwhile, pour 200ml of the sparkling wine into a saucepan, add the sugar and bring to the boil over a medium to low heat, stirring occasionally to encourage the sugar to dissolve. Take off the heat.
Squeeze the gelatine to remove the excess water, then add to the wine syrup and stir until fully dissolved. Now stir in the rest of the wine. Leave to cool until barely warm, but don't allow to set.
Divide half of the strawberries between individual jelly moulds or attractive Martini glasses, then carefully pour in half of the cooled jelly, ensuring the berries are evenly distributed. Place in the fridge for an hour or so until set. Keep the rest of the jelly at room temperature, making sure it does not set.
Once the refrigerated jellies have set, arrange the rest of the strawberries on top and pour on the rest of the jelly. (Setting the jelly in two stages allows the berries to stay suspended so that they don't float to the surface.) Return the jellies to the fridge to set.
To serve, briefly dip the pudding moulds, if using, in hot water, then invert on to serving plates and shake gently to turn out. Or set the Martini glasses on plates. Serve with thick Jersey cream.
Manx Queenies with Cucumber & Wild Fennel
Serves 4
24 - 32 very fresh queenies, prepared and left in the half-shell
For the dressing:
2 shallots, peeled and finely chopped
2 tbsp cider vinegar
1/3 cucumber
1 tbsp cold-pressed rapeseed oil
1/2 tbsp chopped wild fennel
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Salt and freshly ground pepper
For the dressing, place the shallots and cider vinegar in a small pan, bring to the boil, then tip into a bowl.
Cut the cucumber in half lengthways and scoop out the seeds with a teaspoon. Finely chop the cucumber into 5mm dice, then add to the shallots.
Add the rapeseed oil, fennel and lemon juice, toss to combine and season well. Leave to stand for about 20 minutes.
Spoon the marinated cucumber onto the queenies and serve.
Bloody Hot Black Cow
Serves 4
I don't really like messing with classic drinks like a Bloody Mary but sometimes a pre-dinner drink requires a lighter touch so you can fit a second one in! How much heat you want in this drink is up to you, so feel free to spice it up with more chillies and Tabasco.
400-500ml good-quality canned or chilled tomato juice
6 whole pickled chillies (guindillas are best)
150-250ml Black Cow vodka
A few drops of Tabasco sauce
A couple of good pinches of sweet Spanish paprika
Pour the tomato juice into a muslin-lined sieve set over a large bowl or a jelly bag. Transfer to the fridge and leave overnight to strain and extract a clear juice. Gently squeeze the sieve if you want to add a little of the pulps colour to the clear juice.
Use a pestle and mortar or the end of a rolling pin to bash up two of the chillies, then add to a jug with the vodka, Tabasco and strained tomato juice and mix together well.
Place one ice sphere or cube into 4 chilled martini glasses and sprinkle the ice with the paprika. Strain the liquid into the glasses, garnish each with a whole chilli and serve.
Beef and oyster pie
Serves 4
Pies are a great way to use the less expensive, yet full-flavoured meat cuts, such as flank and shin of beef, mutton shoulder and neck, and ox cheeks. Tucking in a few oysters adds a touch of luxury.
1kg trimmed flank or shin of beef
3 tbsp plain flour, plus extra for dusting
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Vegetable oil, for frying
30g butter
1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
1 tsp tomato puree
200ml dark ale, such as Hix Oyster Ale or Guinness
1.5 litres dark meat stock
1 tsp chopped thyme leaves
1 small bay leaf
1-2 tsp cornflour (optional)
12 large oysters, 8 shucked, 4 left in the half-shell
For the pastry
225g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tps salt
85g shredded beef suet
60g butter, chilled and coarsely grated
1 medium egg, beaten
For the parsley crust
A generous knob of butter
2 tbsp fresh white breadcrumbs
1 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley
Cut the meat roughly into 3cm cubes. Season half of the flour with salt and pepper and use to lightly flour the meat. Heat a little oil in a large, heavy-based frying pan and fry the meat in 2 or 3 batches over a high heat until nicely browned. Set aside on a plate.
Melt the butter in a large, heavy-based pan or flameproof casserole and fry the onion and garlic for a few minutes until lightly coloured. Add the remaining flour and tomato puree. Stir over a low heat for a minute or so, then slowly add the ale and stock, stirring to avoid lumps from forming.
Add the beef with the thyme and bay leaf. Bring back to a simmer, cover and simmer very gently (ideally using a heat-diffuser mat or a simmer plate) for about 2 hours until the meat is tender. When the meat is cooked, the sauce should have thickened to a gravy-like consistency. If not, mix the cornflour to a paste with 1 tbsp water, stir into the sauce and simmer, stirring, for a few minutes. Leave to cool.
To make the pastry, mix the flour, salt, suet and butter together in a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Mix in enough water (about 150ml) to form a smooth dough and knead for a minute.
Spoon the cooled filling into 4 individual pie dishes (or 1 large dish) to about 1cm from the rim. Roll the pastry out on a floured surface to a 7-8mm thickness. Cut out 4 discs to make pie lids (or one large lid for a big pie), about 2cm larger all the way around the pie dish(es). Brush the edges of the pastry with a little of the beaten egg.
Lay the pastry over the filling, pressing the egg-washed sides onto the rim of the dish(es). Cut a 2cm circle in the centre but leave in position on top of the pie(s). Let rest in a cool place for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6. Brush the pie(s) with beaten egg and bake for 30-35 minutes (or 40-50 minutes for a large one) until the pastry is golden. Meanwhile, for the parsley crust, melt the butter in a pan, mix in the breadcrumbs and parsley, and season with salt and pepper.
Once the pie(s) are ready, remove the pastry circle(s) in the centre and pop in the shucked oysters. Return to the oven for 10 minutes. In the meantime, heat the grill. Scatter the parsley crust over the oysters in their half-shell and grill until golden. Place over the hole in the pie and serve.
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