I like cookery books. Even the modern kind of glossy coffee-table lifestyle cookery books, written by trendy TV chefs and filled with luscious colour photographs of artfully arranged vegetables of the sort that only middle-class people in the South East have ever heard of. Those things are probably a major factor in the superficial, celeb-crazed [...]
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Dinnerlog #3
November 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Food/Drink
(Chronology dispensed with for the time being – I’ve been a bit busy to keep track) I find my culinary urges change quite markedly as the seasons move from summer into winter and vice versa. With even the slightest hint of bright spring evenings, I’m all for zesty Thai salads and plenty of challenging flavours. [...]
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Dinnerlog #2
November 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Food/Drink
Monday Morrisons “finest” filled pasta “What’s in the fridge” sauce Typical midweek food. The pasta was on special offer and quite nice, although the fillings (one Beef & Chianti, the other Chicken & Lemon) had something of a “squirted from a big machine” texture to them. The sauce was just a typical hacked together thing [...]
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Dinnerlog #1
November 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Food/Drink
Not sure how long I’ll keep this going, and it’s more for my own future curiosity than as a proper “food blog”, but… Saturday Lamb & Olives Salsa di Pomodoro Puy Lentils We don’t eat much red meat, but found some lamb in the freezer. The lamb recipe is from Valentina Harris’s “Regional Italian Cookery” [...]
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Taking a breath
December 17th, 2004 · No Comments · Art/Culture, Drivel, Food/Drink, Music
Seem to be quite busy in the run up to Christmas, so no solid content right now. For all the wrong reasons, I was introduced, earlier this week, to the writings of William Grim, specifically ‘Aesthetics of Hate’, an article he wrote in response to the death of Dimebag Darrell, guitarist with Pantera. To say [...]
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The things you find in Croydon
December 7th, 2004 · No Comments · Food/Drink, Local
Regular readers of this drivel will know about my fondness for Belgian beer and, equally importantly, the attention the Belgians pay to the environment in which they drink their beer. Well… a few weeks ago, I saw a flyer for a place in Croydon called “Beer Circus”. Being at a beer festival at the time, [...]
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Find a pub with SMS!
October 7th, 2004 · No Comments · Food/Drink, Technology
Okay, you probably won’t believe me, but… A few months ago, probably while walking around a town I’d never visited before, I pondered the amount of time I waste in such situations by looking for a good pub. Now, I’ll admit I’m something of a beer geek; while some people would walk into the first [...]
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Brussels I
March 16th, 2004 · No Comments · Food/Drink, Travel
I’m always up for a trip to Belgium, as documented here before (this time last year and in pre-archive days). Last Friday, I and my usual three travelling companions set off, cheap Eurostar tickets clutched in hand, for a long weekend of Belgian fun. Arriving in Brussels, our first stop was Beersel, in the heart [...]
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Water of life
March 11th, 2004 · No Comments · Drivel, Food/Drink
What about that new Dasani bottled water, eh? Filtered tap water in a nice blue bottle. London water has always tasted fine to me, but not enough to make me want to buy half a litre of it from a shop for 60p. I can’t make up my mind whether it’s a huge con or [...]
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Soup. With cheese in!
September 2nd, 2003 · No Comments · Food/Drink
I feel I must share this with you. Well, the theory at least. If you want to do it for real, you’ll have to buy your own ingredients. Taken from the book ‘Soup’, appropriately enough… TOMATO, BLUE CHEESE AND BACON SOUP Ingredients: 8 tomatoes, 1tbsp olive oil, 200g streaky bacon, 50g butter, 2 medium onions, [...]
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