While the black pudding was used in a successful dish, the chorizo found its way into a failure.
The recipe came from Rick Stein’s Food Heroes, currently resident Chez Rosam courtesy of Worthing Library.
The flavours just didn’t work. It may well have been because our chorizo from the market and Waitrose butter beans weren’t up to [...]
Actually, nothing at all to do with market, but a general grumble about my inability to get the stone out of a mango without dragging half the flesh with it.
How do they do it in restaurants? Or is it a variety thing like the strawberries we get these days in the shops that never give [...]
I got a bit narky when I went into the shop at Carluccio’s in Brighton recently. And not just Carluccio’s - we have Oil & Vinegar here in Worthing and in Brighton.
They, and their ilk are the home of overpriced Lifestyle (with a capital ‘L’) branded food - one showing a very Body Shop-like corporate [...]
For someone trying to lose weight, like myself, the artificial sweetener, Aspartame, is a fact of life. Something that’s pretty unavoidable without some serious lifestyle change considerations.
As my friend Loli once remarked, my consumption of diet cola is so out of kilter with my advocacy of things Organic, and active avoidance of too many processed [...]
When I started Meals on Blogs, just a few weeks ago, I wrote on the Food for Thought page something grandiose like promising my manifesto for food.
This week, the promise has been gnawing away at the back of my mind, so I guess I’ll have to knuckle down and try to develop my thinking without [...]
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