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…
Tag: Food
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…
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…
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…
Friday Fish Night
Why is Friday night always considered Fish Night? Surely anyone can eat a fish as and when they choose? I understand that due to religious observances some people may adapt their dietry routines to accommodate this, e.g. Catholics do not eat meat on Good Friday. Some orthodox Catholics have made this a Friday tradition and do…
“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….
GastroRob 