We eat a lot of pasta. Indeed, a lot of the food I cook is Italian/Mediterranean influenced. And one day I’d like to live somewhere where the olive is native.
One thing I’d never done, though, is to make my own pasta. I’d kind of lumped it with making pastry as one of those things I [...]
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’m completely knackered, and need a holiday.
So I’ve done the next best thing, and taken a long weekend off. And guess what I’m going to do? Yep - cook, eat, drink and be merry. And maybe even visit a restaurant or two.
Now, that’s a weekend
Hmm. MOB started so well, but last weekend we were away at a wedding in Dorset, and this week business has had me working evenings and most of the weekend… So not much to talk about on the cooking front.
Even a cooking fiend like myself gets overwhelmed and to the stage where he can’t really [...]
OK. I’ll come clean, it’s really eating on or by the beach, one of the great things about living by the sea during the summer.
I’ve been working all this weekend on a rush job for a client, so for lunch yesterday I grabbed some sushi from Marks & Spencer (more about sushi very soon) and [...]
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