Month: May 2009
General
We spent a long weekend in Sweden, so as I am sure you can imagine there is bugger all to report about the food. However, this meat merchant did …
Recipes
Roasting beef is really easy. You need instructions? Ok, here goes: Turn your oven up to 220 Celsius and roast the beef for 30 minutes. Then turn the oven …
Germany
The answer is ‘None, none more intense’. Riesling Auslese Kiedrich Grafenberg 2005, Weingut Robet Weil The nose of this is utterly refined and pure. Sure, it is really minerally …
Podcasts
I just thought it would be fun to record me raving about a couple of wines and see if I said anything amusing. I suppose I did in the …
Burgundy
This is an audio tasting note, recorded in the heat of battle. Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru les Pucelles 2005, Domaine Henri Boillot There will be another audio tasting note tomorrow.
Recipes
This recipe is so not mine I’d hate hate to actually repeat it here. I can post a link, though, to Heston Blumenthal’s brilliant spaghetti carbonara recipe (with handy …
Chablis
I swiped this from the partner’s collection whilst he is in Estonia. Sssshhhh! Don’t tell him! I need wine for my guest. This is not quite, at least on …
General
My mother was recently in Australia visiting my sister and brought back some of what she claimed was the best lime marmalade she had ever tried. She is clearly …
Non-alcoholic
I neck about a litre of Diet Coke a day; the anti-psychotics I take sedate me and I rely on caffeine to lash my mind into a less moronic, …
Perry
The best thing I had at the shamefully inadequate Hix Oyster and Chop House was this drink. Weston’s Perry, 7.4% A lovely, lively nose of delightfully fresh pears. The …
