One of my all time favourite restaurant dishes is fillet steak with garlic prawns – served rare! But whenever I order this some diners will always question the whole meat and seafood combo and whether it really works. So what is Surf and Turf? Surf and Turf or more commonly ‘Surf ‘n’ Turf’ or better…
Category: winter warmer
Thrift
With the uphill month of January hitting people’s pockets hard and everyone trying to stick to their new year’s resolutions of which generally losing weight is a major focus, the home cook is being challenged to provide food that is flavoursome but light and easy on the wallet. A bowl of hot soup can usually…
Cold Nights; Warm Dinners
Autumn finally decided to creep out from behind the shade of the beach umbrellas and tiptoe into the limelight of falling leaves and cooler, darker evenings. The duvet finally came out. Over the past week the temperatures have dropped; especially noticeable at night time and early morning. Autumn has made a proper appearance and it…
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…
Christmas Party
“I’m no good at chatting up and always get rebuffed, Enough to drive a man to drink, I don’t do no washing up” But you will always find me in the kitchen at parties! And that is exactly where I spent most of my Saturday. Not just at the party but throughout the day as…
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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