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…
Category: Dinner
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…
Blue Monday
“You got paid early in December ready for Christmas, so you are currently skint. Your New Year diet regime has now slipped and you are hoovering up food like there’s no tomorrow.” New Year’s resolutions start flying out the window and all those gym clothes you bought are a constant reminder of how little exercise…
New Years Day
In the past, no matter what time we went to bed at and no matter how much toasting to the new year had gone on, someone (Gran and Mum) had to wake up early and get started on preparing and cooking a New Year’s lunch for a family of 7+. On most occasions, the same…
Dinner Date
Last night, I was torn with what to cook for dinner. After a summer of BBQ’s and eating out, my cupboards were lousier than Mother Hubbard’s! Therefore a stressful supermarket session was necessary to replenish depleted stocks. Lacking food-shop-practice and forgetting where things were and having to return to the car to get my shopping…
El Capote – Italiano
“Good company, good food and good wine!” That was the welcome and introduction that we received at El Capote’s 5th wine and food matching held Thursday 7th June. The theme for this evening’s dining experience was Italian. As pretty much everyone had already been to at least one of the previous four evenings, they knew the…
El Capote
On Thursday evening I was treated to a wine & tapas tasting event at El Capote, Gibraltar. Organiser and host, Ian Gareze, informed us by email that: “the food & wine matching evening consists of 6 french wines accompanied by 6 tapas designed to best compliment the characteristics of the wine and vice versa” I…
Leftovers
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…
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…
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