“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…
Tag: eating
Kedgeree – a bit like Paella but curried!
Before any of you ask, this was not a student creation from my University days gone by! Kedgeree is at its most basic, a dish consisting of boiled rice, flaked fish, curry powder and hard boiled eggs. It is thought to have originated from an Indian rice and bean/lentil dish called Khichri, and widely believed…
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…
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…
“Oh Solomillo”
I was looking forward to dinner since its conception in the shower at 7am! There was a 600g pork fillet (solomillo de cerdo) with my name emblazoned across its sinewy flesh waiting for me in the fridge. There was only one thing that I wanted to do to this cut of meat. I removed any excess…
The Five Senses
I previously mentioned that eating was a sensory experience, however, there are some restaurants which actively campaign against this. They try to make the philosophy of their establishment about taste and not about the social experience that is a meal. Dans Le Noir? serves food in a pitch-black room. Another serves food dyed in blue!…
Gastro
The name of this blog suggests that perhaps this is going to be another one of those frivolous wittering blogs written by somebody who pretends to know about food. I wish to immediately push that idea out of your head. It is no such thing. This blog is a culinary voyage (so to speak) my journey with food….
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