The near-mythical ‘Indian summer’ has suddenly become a reality. Londoners are shedding their macs and leaving their brollies at home, flowers have been tricked into blooming all over again and Edgware Road has sold out of ice cream. Britain has gone bezeerk. So, I thought it would be a good time to tempt you with [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Italian supper
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged berlotti beans, chianti, food, Indian summer, Italian, review, sausage, tomatoes on September 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Cheese quiz
Posted in Reviews, tagged cheese, food, guardian, quiz on September 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Rate yourself as a cheese connoisseur? Wile away your lunchbreak with this cheesy quiz on the guardian website. Share your score in the comments below. Cheese fail or cheese master?
Laptop lunches
Posted in Light Lunch, Reviews, tagged flickr, Ginger Elanor, laptop lunch, lunchbox, picnic on September 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
100% kudos to Ginger Elanor for making such enviable (and fun to browse) packed lunches. Truly inspirational There’s been some debate over which laptop lunchbox looks most appetizing…these two have got to rank pretty high up. Better than a tin of soup any day…
Disappearing Dining Club
Posted in Reviews, tagged Club, Disappearing, Disappearing Dining Room, East London, food, Old Street, private dining, review on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I live in an edgy East End flat. I know it’s edgy because a poster next to the lift tells me so: “In close proximity to edgy Hoxton and Shoreditch.” My friends find this particularly funny because they know that I sometimes play my left hand versus my right hand at scrabble. They know I [...]
Game for it….popping up with the Queens of Cue
Posted in Reviews, tagged East London Line, food, game, Millwall, pop up, quail, Queens of Cue, rabbit, restaurant, review, squirrel, stew, venison, wood pigeon on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to have a really epic night out in London for just £25. You could buy three warm beers at Mahiki….or you could just about check you and your coat into Raffles. Dammit, you could put £25 on your Oyster card, and leave it on a bus. I suppose you could just about get [...]
Mini Toad in the Hole
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Savoury snacks, tagged baked beans, batter, cabbage, comfort food, food, mini, rain, recipe, sausages, toad in the hole on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If, like me, you were near Bethnal Green tube around 6pm last night waiting for the Indian Summer to begin…then you may, like me, have been drenched by the Indian monsoon instead. Round the point that the rain was bouncing off the road, I was drenched and stranded in Tesco’s with all thoughts of sheeshy [...]
Modernist Cuisine
Posted in News, tagged cook book, Modernist Cuisine, review, sous vide, Stephen Hawking on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Former student of Stephen Hawking and winner of the World Barbecue Championship Nathan Myhrvold has, together with a team of 30, finally finished his magnum opus: Modernist Cuisine. The 2,468 page book took three years to complete by the former Microsoft chief technology officer, despite help from his sizable staff. Throughout the five volumes, there [...]
Tom’s stuffed cob - the best sandwich ever
Posted in Light Lunch, Savoury snacks, tagged Best sandwich ever, cob loaf, cream cheese, huge, Leon, loaf, parma ham, salami, spinach, sundried tomatoes, ultimate sandwich on September 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A wise man once said “life is like a sandwich – the more you add to it, the better it becomes”. I’m writing this on a Sunday afternoon. Tom and I are still in our pyjamas and haven’t moved from the sofa for a few hours. It doesn’t feel like we’ve stuffed too much into [...]
Broadway Market in September
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Broadway Market, chorizo scotch egg, Dalston, East London, food, market, mushroom risotto, smoked salmon, stalls on September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Gin ramblings
Posted in News, Reviews, tagged Bombay Sapphire, botanicals, drink, food, gin, Hogarth, juniper, orris, recession, tuscany on September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Recently we’ve seen scandals tear through politics, the police and press. We’ve been rioted, we’ve been looted, we’ve been screwed by hikes and strikes. And bankers. We’re living off less but everything costs more. There’s an apocalyptic mood lingering over the city, and it won’t go away. While recessions bring a general feeling of doom [...]