As I savour the last bite of my Pesto Chicken Quesadilla with its melted cheese oozing around white chicken breast pieces, I look back at an inspired menu where the leftovers played the starring role. After Sunday’s lamb roast I could not face red meat again on Monday. There is something about lamb that even…
Author: gastrorob
Cake
Cake. It’s not that difficult. We all know the eating is easy, especially if in cupcake or muffin form, the joy about these being that they are also portable snacks of sugary love. Actually the hard part is sometimes restraining yourself from eating that 3rd slice! Seriously though, making a cake is not difficult but…
Oriental
This Easter I am very fortunate to be travelling to Malaysia. I have never been there but looking through travel guides and online comments it seems to be one of those places that involves a lot of pounding the streets and fueling that energy demand by stopping regularly for street food. There are many Asian…
Disappointed with Dinner!
It’s not very often that I can say this, well, once there was a salmon and spinach en croute thing that should NEVER be repeated but nonetheless I tend to be adventurous as well as optimistic in the kitchen. However, whilst trawling the aisles at the supermarkets I’ve always tried to look for something unfamiliar…
Sweet
As a child, my favourite part of a meal was dessert. If I went to a restaurant I would sometimes not finish my main meal and claim I was full up! Hence leaving room in my second stomach for dessert. My dessert stomach. Which was never full and always wanted more! It was always something with…
Americana
Of all the places I have travelled to, New York aka New Yoik, is still one of my favourite destinations. Having been there on three seperate occasions with three different groups of people, I can encouragingly recommend this place to everyone. Other than the typical tourist attractions statue of liberty, times square, central park, etc which I will…
Nostalgia
My parents are in the process of redecorating their kitchen and getting rid of kitchenware they no longer want; subsequently passing it onto me! In between random cutlery sets and unwanted easter-egg mugs they have given me a stainless steel pot which according to both Mum and Dad, they bought in Portugal some 20 years…
Weekend – Sunday
Pancakes…mmmmm! Which type should I make? American style, french crêpe, ricotta hotcakes, galette, gridle cake, pfannkuchen, pannenkoeken, poffertjes, palacinky, palacsinta, blini, drop scones, pikelets, crumpets, waffles the list goes on. Or so the internet tells me! “Ultimately, all of the above are a variation on a theme.” They all have flour, milk and eggs. Some…
Weekend – Saturday
Hard as it may seem, it had felt as if I had not thrown myself into the kitchen for a while. So at some quiet moment on Friday, between breakfast and after work beers (of which there were lots) I sat down with orange post-it notes and pen in hand and decided on cooking/baking that…
Nigella is for life not just for Christmas!
Damn! I just dropped the piece of chicken into the jar of chilli jam. Literally scraping the last few fiery flecks of sweet chilli onto the scalloped chicken breast “gallina empana” I look back, even though a few months late, at what was a highly successful seasonal cooking extravaganza. Seduced and inspired by Nigella, whom I…
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