Having established a benchmark of food and drink at my parties a few years ago, what could I pull out of the bag to feed my 20+ guests this party round? After all I can no longer get away with several bags of doritos and assorted dips! Do I provide my standard party medly of spiced…
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Rockchef
Rockchef Final 2013
PURATAPA
The food at PURATAPA in Torreguadiaro, Spain is just incredible. Considering that this gastro tapas bar has been here for a few years now I’m shocked that I only discovered it this weekend! The tapas are inventive, modern and classy. There is a touch of barcelona/el pais vasco about the menu. Even with the screaming…
Foodie Weekend
Licking my lips, I alighted from the Heathrow Express at Paddington and made my way to the Southbank Centre to check out the Cheese and Wine Festival. Having arrived late-afternoon (I had just flown in from Gib!) I had missed the ‘food theatre’ and even though there were not many people jostling around the food…
El Capote – Chef Lede
I can’t wait for Ian to either email me or send me a text message letting me know about the next food and wine matching event at El Capote. Talking to Ian about the direction the events are now going in, he admitted that they are no longer food and wine matching evenings where the wine flows from beginning…
El Capote – Chef Lede
If I were to tell you that I ate delicate flowers, thai basil and soy air at El Capote you’d probably mistake me (and El Capote) for eco-hemp-hippies. And I too thought that I’d left my best tie-dyed muslin t-shirt at home when I read things like ‘aire de soya‘ on the menu! But I…
Comforting Fish Pie
We leave Winter behind and step into Spring but sadly even though the temperatures have gone up the weather does not really seam to be reflecting this yet. So with the dreary weather hanging over us I still have penchant for comfort food. So what does comfort food really mean to me? If I were to…
Rock Chef
When it comes to food, Gibraltar should be very proud of herself. Not only do we have a celebratory food festival “Calentita” in June where we celebrate food from the different backgrounds that make up our unique heritage but now we can add Rock Chef to our food culture. “Passion for food, fierce competition, a…
Vegetarian
The recent Horsemeat scandal has left farmers incensed as meat sales have plummeted, supermarkets have lost billions in profits and governments struggle in vain to draw a line under the scandal over horsemeat being sold as beef. So with consumers ditching beef for veggie ready meals it makes me question why people feel that creating vegetarian dishes…
Shrove Tuesday
The pagans knew how to party! They marked every festival with mirth and merriment but above all food. Food playing a central part to their festivities. So it isn’t really surprising that the Christians adopted this ethos before embarking upon a period of abstinence and denial. Throughout the 40 days of Lent, people are called…
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