I love salt beef sandwiches on light rye bread with lots of mustard and some dill pickle on the side.
It’s a fixation that goes back to when I worked in Soho in London. There was still a definite Jewish presence in the area then, and there were a couple of great salt beef places - [...]
It was a disappointing lunch yesterday.
I’d been told that Food in central Worthing is owned by the same people as the excellent Fish Factory, so was keen to give it a try. As it happens, having been to Food, I’m not so sure if it is.
The Fish Factory does very little apart from fish, and [...]
There are few words on a menu that get my goat as much as ‘with a salad garnish’. You know it’s going to be a disappointment - an excuse for a mean, sad little bit of boring food, a visit back to the bygone days of the 70s.
And then sometimes the damned garnishes just creep [...]
For a long time, I’ve often cut a lemon in half and stuffed into the cavity of a chicken before roasting. Too often, I’ve wondered why I’ve bothered. Sure, the juice evaporates and keeps the meat nice and moist, but what happened to the lemon flavour?
Squeezing the lemon and rubbing in into the skin before [...]
Dieting doesn’t mean boring food or something spewed out by a factory associated with whichever diet brand you’re following. I’ve been doing the Weight Watchers thing on line - let’s face it, it saves feeling as if I’m in a Little Britain sketch
As far as I’m concerned, the secret is to find ingredients [...]
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