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One fish two fish, red fish, blue fish, and turtle for dinner with Edwardo the Greek…
It may not rhyme but it does still sound freakishly like a scenario Dr Seuss would conger up. But it isn’t. And another untruth that may have occurred is Edwardo is not actually Greek. He is Italian. Edwardo was in fact introduced to us by our friend Micky (who now has two feathers for his…
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The late night lamb sandwich… consumed one afternoon at Bay Kebabs
This post is for the kids who yearn for the flavour of the late night lamb sandwich (kebab).Lamb sliced from the only-god-knows-how-long-that-has-been-there giant meat stick, lettuce, tomato, onion, tabouleh, tzatziki and hot chilli sauce all wrapped in an edible, carry anywhere skin aka. the flat bread. This is thee only energy bar needed for a…
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Cotechino Spaghetti
Cotechino (Fresh Salami Style Sausage) The Cotechino is similar to salami but that it has to be cooked – generally it is poached at a low heat for some hours. Its name comes from “cotica” meaning rind. The finely chopped skin slowly releases gelatine during the cooking process, giving Cotechino its incredibly silky texture. Traditionally…
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This is a story about getting dressed
Getting dressed is something that a lot of people learn how to do in the early years of their life. A bit like doing their wees and poos on the toilet, and not eating steamy dog turds from the back lawn… or was that just my kids. The most basic of life skills, yet one…
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The Standing Rib Roast
The standing rib roast… a celebration of life… unless you are the cow it came from. There’s nothing wrong with eating well, you know. Eating well is celebrating a task that we need to perform to live, taking it from boring or mundane and punch throwing into the realm of a ménage a trois with…
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Burgers for boy’s night
Burgers for boy’s night It was myself and my sons Seba and Obi, both young. Probably to young to be watching hardcore porn and drinking straight whiskey, but it was boy’s night so I’ll let the age thing slide. And we also had the company of their cousin Gareth, who was doing work experience at…
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300
300 “Give them nothing but take from them EVERYTHING!”… ummm, that may be the wrong 300. A fine moment for Gerard Butler though. A fine moment indeed. And then I wake from my pseudo gay dream and realise I’m actually embarking on another brain to finger electromagnetic intercourse from me to you and it appears…
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chef’s pet hate #42
Chef’s pet hate #42 “When is my food ready?” Are you effing kidding me? It’s been 10 minutes since you ordered and if you get your face out of you iphone for a minute or two you will notice the restaurant is full. These people should not be allowed to leave the house unsupervised and…
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Baked beans… and the debt they owe to a good piece of smoked meat
Good baked beans are super easy but they do owe a debt of gratitude to a good ham bone or smoked sausage, it just improves the flavour of these little legumes ten fold. Unless you are vegetarian or one of the other groups of people out there who are wrong about smoked pork. Except Muslims……
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Lamb-ancini (lamb arancini) with caper mayonnaise
Just a quick little note with a compulsory amusing anecdote about my life at the moment. Dear diary. This week I started a new job. The new kitchen has lots of fun toys for me to play with, new work mates for me to torment, a baker/pastry chef (I must have done something good in…
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