As the (last) recession crept up, pubs and restaurants got a lot of airtime. And not for a good reason. Back in 2009, 52 pubs were closing each week and there was just a 20% chance that a restaurant would survive its first two years. Scrimping and saving was having a knock-on effect, and the [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Lovely Hugh’s celeriac and squash pasty
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, tagged blue cheese, butternut squash, cabbage, celeriac, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, puff pastry, puff pastry parcel, recipe, squash, veg, vegeterian on November 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For the past four mounts, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been vegetarian. Good on him. I often think that I could be vegetarian too – well, until someone puts a steak in front of me…or a pork pie, a roast chicken, a Cornish pasty…you get the point. I was in fact vegetarian when I was about ten [...]
Recovering from chutney-related trauma
Posted in Light Lunch, Savoury snacks, tagged apple, brown sugar, burned, chilli, chutney, cyder vinegar, Old Doverhouse, pear, pear chutney, plum, recipe, ruined, seasonal, spicy tomato, tomatoes, trauma, vinegar on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My first foray into the world of chutney took place purely by accident. One evening in August I asked Tom if he could pick up one of those market-sized bowls of tomatoes on his way to the flat. An hour later, he still wasn’t back. I was starting to worry. Then, with a big flourish [...]
Food Odyssey in Kerala
Posted in Reviews, News, tagged Alleppy, almond cake, backwaters, Botanical Gardens, cafe, chai, Coonoor, curry, Dal Roti, dhal curry, fish, fishermen, Fort Cochin, India, Kerala, Kochi, Lulu Roy, Nilgiri hills, Ootacamund, Ooty, restaurant, rice boat, south India, Teapot, train, travel, Udagamandalam on November 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Back from Kerala about a stone heavier, covered in mosquito bites and buzzing from an epic adventure. We travelled between Fort Cochin, Ooty and Alleppy on trains, buses, and boat. We infiltrated the Maharaja of Mysore’s summer palace, had an epiphany over the actual meaning of ‘masala’, and Tom narrowly escaped serious injury after throwing [...]