I have a quiet affection of saurkraunt. I’m not sure why. The jars of it you buy are, generally, vile, which is a real shame. The best stuff I had was un Austria, and it went perfectly with the tarragon hinted mstard and meaty sausages I and my then girlfriend ate standing in the freezing [...]
I love the writing style of Allegra McEvedy. As it’s not obvious, click on the permalink to read each full article. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Jerking it
I lovelove love the last cartoon strip in todays BasicInstructions. I might possibly have done xtream roast chicken in the past. I brought it though. Definately. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus [...]
I have many arguments with our American cousins about cocktails* but this is just silly. Wine based cocktails are bad enough but beer based cocktails, you fucking heathens. *A martini is gin/vodka and vermouth, and nothing else. Nothing. Leave it alone. It’s the nearest thing you’ve invented to poetry. All other mixtures are just cocktails. [...]
While it’s not a stack of freezing cold melon with hard Italian cheeses, but I’ve just had some seriously over ripe gala melon with a strong cheddar, and it was excellent. And now I’m about to put a garlic bread in the oven, because I have the munchies. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow [...]
Yes, it’s all gone a bit BlackBooks as I druled over whatwereeating.com. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Jerking it
I think this little article about having an hour in the evening to decompress and shoot the breeze (a horrible American phrase which I’ve always liked because it sounds like sitting outside in the summer and chatting until it goes cold) is spot on. We rush our food, we rush our drinking, and all so [...]
First up,an apology. The spacebar on myibook isplaying up and notfiring evertime I hit it, which is extreamly annoying. Nodoubt I’llmiss a few spaces in tonight diatribe. At the weekend I was reading an article about girls who hunt down their men based virtually entirely on thier wealth. Not unusual I admit, but nowwith the [...]
Tesco’s Finest Bakery Products should actually be relabelled “Tescos Most Crunchy Crusty Products: WARNING WARNING: May cut the roof of your mouth when eatting”. Certianly this applies to their Tescos Finest Baggettes Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus [...]
After all my late night rantings about food I’ve spent a little time looking up briskets. I think my problems included not cooking for long enough and not brining before hand. Also – not using big enough pieces of brisket. Take a look at this tastey Instructable Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked [...]
There’s agreat article in the Boston.com food section about the film Waitress and the pie’s it features. I lvoe some of the names from “I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby Pie (a quiche with brie and smoked ham)” to “I Hate My Husband Pie (“bittersweet chocolate and don’t sweeten it”)” they are brilliant. Possibly Related Posts: [...]
When I can’t sleep, such as tonight, I lie awake andmy thoughts turn to food. I’ve no idea why, but I seem to drift towards imagined dishes when I can’t get my brain to slow down. I think of little parcels of white fish, steamed with pickled sushi ginger and garlic, or short beef ribs [...]
After reading one of Jeromy Clarkson’s rants about Daily Mail readers refusing to admit where their food comes from, I ran across “from day old to dinner” over at twwly.com which is a great short photoset that documents a frist “season” of chickens. I also like their tag-line – “Food for thought: If you couldn’t [...]
You’ve got to love the phrase “the wise owl brews magical beer!” Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101
Ok – the next of my exotic meats. Its been a while since I cracked into this box set of flesh from around the globe from osgrow.com, what with holidays and things, it must be nearly a month i guess. So, this afternoon I lifted a shrink wrapped packet of bison steaks out of the [...]
Last night I had a play to try and make Chinese style dumplings, because I’ve had some really good ones in the last few weeks, both steamed and fried. I popped down to China town at lunchtime and stocked up on loads of things (big bottles of soy and chilli, jars of minced ginger and [...]
I love the name, and also the weekly cocktails, how have I only just discovered /food.com. Maybe it is the /. effect, maybe I should actually write it slashfood instead? Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our daily bread(maker) Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 [...]
OK, so tonight was the first of my exotic meats from osgrow. I had two (little) kangaroo steaks, cooked quickly in a hot frying pan. The larger one I split in half so all three pieces were the same thickness. It cooked quickly, going from a dark meat to a dark brown in 3 or [...]
This is truely one of the most amazing pieces of TV I have watched in years. It’s very carefully not been done to be dramatic, because it could have so easily been meaty big brother, and all along the way they have tried to explain what people are seeing. For example, when the animal is [...]
Finally somebody has made a fabulous piece of TV. Long have I ranted on about people being ignorent and proud of it. BBC has a programme on at the moment called Kill It, Cook It, Eat It which follows beast from field to plate. The public are invited to watch the whole process, and to [...]
Eatting a pigeon and peach pie for lunch I am remindered that pigeon tastes like a livery bit of rabbit, which much the same texture as the latter. Possibly not suited to pie – stayed very dry. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked ham with cider and spice Give us this day our [...]
many things need commenting on in this field (for example why is it the new washing powder always makes things as clean as the old one did in it’s advert), but have you noticed that the hole created by the ringpull in drinks cans has got much bigger? This means you drink faster and thus, [...]
Dead easy chicken for boys to cook on their own (possibly even after a beer). Invented because we had a jar of really crappy lime pickle which was mostly chilli and very greasy. Chop up as much raw skinned chicken as you need (roughly a handful per person), of whatever bits of chicken you like [...]
A few weeks ago I bought a blender for about 12 quid. I nearly bought a “smoothie maker”, but decided not to for 2 basic reasons. 1) I want to make other things in my blender (such as soup). 2) every eejit seems to swear by smoothies, and I think they are nothing more than [...]