I would like to tell you about some olive oil that is so good it is the staple at Elitistreview Towers; we always feel delighted when we have the chance to use it. ‘So good’ is the prime quality that interests the team here, but speaking for myself, I also have an eye for a [...]
The other day I had one of the most stunningly awesome meals of my life and it wonderfully affirmed the deep pleasure of being alive. That counts as ‘happy’! The Editor had cooked kofte and a tomato, herb and feta salad from the excellent cookbook Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi ( homepage here ) and Sami [...]
The other day I had one of the greatest meals of my life. A dinner marked by profundity of flavour in food and wine. If I may, I will enlighten you about the three core ingredients that made it such a downright enjoyable experience. Of their type, there’s little better easily available. I start with [...]
Last year we utterly adored the pickled onions from Perfect Pickles. They were vibrant, crunchy, acidic as hell and really rather spicy, so we purchased a few jars of the new season’s onions to have over the Christmas break, this is how many we got: As work has been a bit crazy over Christmas, and [...]
Moving to Hampshire has been one of the best things I’ve done in my life. I expected it to be more relaxed than London with a nicer environment and better services – all these it has. What I wasn’t quite expecting was to have such amazing food available. The food at the Hampshire Farmers’ Markets [...]
Readers whose memories stretch back to the dim, dark depths of May might have a passing recollection of me praising The Cheese Stall in Winchester. Those you you with more alcohol damaged minds will need reminding that The Cheese Stall sells a truly excellent range of carefully sourced, impeccably matured curd. But they are, of [...]
Listing all the types of cheese required for civilised existence would go on longer than Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, but buffalo mozzarella would certainly be one of the first requirements. Organic farm Laverstoke Park make some cracking buffalo mozzarella and other goodies as well. Even better, Laverstoke are based in wonderful, wonderful Hampshire! How [...]
Captain Peter came around for lunch the other day – my did we eat and drink well! The wines ended at a screaming, literally SCREAMING, peak of brilliance, but I’ll start off with a few words about the food. We started off with the usual sausage and gesier salad. This was lovely with some red [...]
I have long been hoping my excellent Jersey Bean chum Dan Richardson would contribute content to my organ; he is a charming, erudite fellow who knows the importance of having fun with nice things. His Tweets about lobster roll were so ecstatic I easily convinced him that People Need To Know. So over to Dan [...]
This is really a recipe for hot chocolate of incredible dissolution value, but I will start off by mentioning my other favourite produce from the hot chocolate ingredient mongers. Meadow Cottage Farmhouse Dairy Produce do incredible things with the milk from their Jersey herd. We shall come to the cream and milk, but their ice [...]
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