Category: Food
Recipes
The starter I cooked last night was incredibly easy and totally delicious. It helps that it is asparagus season here in England; English asparagus is, of course, the best …
Recipes
Dinner tonight will be Spaghetti Bolognese, something I haven’t cooked in a remarkably long time. The ingredients are: 500g ground beef 250g dry-cure streaky bacon cut up into 2cm …
General
We have a couple of friends from Oxford days coming around for dinner tonight; there will be some hilariously fine wine consumed. Our starter will be salad with confit …
General
Once again, Sillfield Farm have provided quality pork products that fill one with pleasure when eating them. Namely, last night’s dinner of Sicilian sausages: You can tell they are …
General
This news story on the BBC is reasonably interesting. Apparently research has shown that chillies have been cultivated, exported and used in cooking for over six thousand years. That …
Recipes
This is a slight variation on the traditional recipe, but my minor changes are only designed to add flavour. I have to say I am not sure where one …
Fast food
Last weekend we took some people to La Porchetta. This time we went to the Islington branch. The food was, once again, high quality and I can highly recommend …
Recipes
We have a vegetarian coming around for dinner tonight. I am happy to say I have never had to cook for a vegetarian before, so when this challenge was …
London
Last Saturday night we stopped off in Holborn for an early dinner at a branch of La Porchetta; it was quite the best pizza I’ve had in Town since …
London
I met up with my step-father today, we both thought La Gavroche seemed like a good place for lunch so that is where we met up. It was a …
