For me, cooking is all about flavours that compliment each other such as; ginger & lime, spinach & nutmeg, plum tomatoes and fresh basil etc etc. But one of my all time favourite combos is …
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The Fork Magazine 2009 Food Awards just got announced.
GREAT to see that ‘Made By Bob’ in Cirencester got voted ‘Best New Opening Outside London’. Also terrific to see Stroud awarded Best Farmer’s Market.
Congrats too to Mitch Tonks for his Seahorse restaurant in Devon – the same team as The Rockfish in Bristol of which I am a huge fan
Now, when my friend Jon asked me if I would add a post on his blog site I was a little scared, if I’m honest. I’ve never blogged before and as far as my culinary …
A great bit of PR to raise awareness for the upcoming Sydney Food Festival and to help celebrate international food, national flags of participating countries were recreated using popular local foods of each nation.
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Spotted this on Anna the Red’s Bento Factory blog.
This project is best explained by the above picture, but if you prefer some written guidance, what you’ll do is:
Whenever I have a saturday morning free I’ll head to the award winning Farmer’s Market in Stroud. It’s a great place for any foodie or cook to have a mooch and pick up fresh, locally …
We had some friends over for lunch on Saturday – the perfect excuse to fire up the BBQ and cook some serious jerk chicken.
It also gave me the perfect excuse to go out and buy …
I’ve been nominated in the Dorset Cereals Little Blog awards – please do vote for me by clicking here or by clicking the little image over there on the left hand side.
It will only take …
We chose the fairly new Piccolino in Bristol for an impromptu after work meal out last night and it was terrific. Freshly cooked, lovingly prepared authentic Italian cuisine with a great wine selection to match.
The …
Montevideo, Uruguay: 12 metric tons of beef, a mile long grill and 1,250 grill masters later a Guinness world record is set!
Pretty much any meat, fish, or veg that you would grill or roast in your kitchen will be quicker, easier, less messy, more fun and taste better if done on the BBQ.
Fact.
Here’s a great example. …
Holy SMOKE that was hot. Guess I skipped over the ‘use sparingly’ part of the instructions.
Apparently, this is the Jerk sauce from Jamaica by which all others are measured. For jerk aficionados, Walkerswood, Jamaica, is …
Simple, quick, tasty and so much better than chips, sautéed potatoes are a staple accompaniment in our house to plenty of dishes. According to my current favourite cook, Marcella, “The ideal pan-roasted potato has a …
Breezing round the Stroud branch of Waitrose this evening to pick up a few missing bits for dinner this evening, I was drawn like a moth to the moon to this tiffin box from John …
I’m loving ‘What To Eat Now’. Great programme. Valentine makes a refreshing change to the usual suspects. Clearly loves lfood and life in general in equal proportions.
Deep fried courgette flowers stuffed with mozarella and anchovy …
My major gripe with most risottos is the majority of them taste of nothing but gloopy starch. When I cook a risotto, this is always at the back of mind mind and I probably over-compensate …
Introducing my latest toy – a dual purpose meat mallet made by Typhoon. One side has rows of small pyramid spikes and the other is flat.
The idea of the spikes soften the fibres in the …
If you sipped your morning cup of joe overlooking this fantastic view then you’d be pretty pleased with your lot in life I think. The pretty little village of Box sits to the side of …
Bristol’s mighty Falafel King recently expanded his empire from the well known mobile caravan in the city centre to now include a proper sit-in Falafel bar located near the Clifton Triangle shopping centre.
The Falafels themselves …
I have to be honest, I think it has gone wrong.
I just syphoned the beer from the big brew tub into thte two individual bottles that need to sit pretty for a couple of weeks. …
