I know this isn’t really fair of me to review a place that hardly anyone will get a chance to go to, but I was so impressed with this restaurant that I had to write about it. I also had to share some of my rather bad photos with you, in the vain hope that …
Tag: comfort food
Inspector Montalbano; enabler.
He is you know. That entire series just exists solely to enable my cravings for pasta. Not just pasta. To be more specific, my cravings usually centre around spaghetti. Every time I watch an episode, he is somewhere eating either caponata, fresh fish or spaghetti. Last night it was spaghetti con vongole, and spaghetti with …
Cake and Ice cream.
It’s a winner isn’t it? The idea of a good, rich cake, its gooeyness cut by tangy ice cream? Heaven to me. It’s like eating hot Christmas pudding with cold, cold cream. (My mum’s light Christmas pudding though, no other.) This week, my husband has been working stupid hours. Such long hours, in fact, that …
Baking Challenge with Tesco Real Food
I was recently invited to attend a baking event, courtesy of Tesco Real Food, via my esteemed chum, Kavita of Kavey Eats. The baking event took place alongside Tesco’s Real Food Baking Challenge, so have a go at that! “Our Real Food Baking Challenge is running for six weeks until 21st October. We're asking customers …
No churn lemon curd ice cream.
This is all Kavey’s fault. No, really, it is. If she hadn’t run her Bloggers Scream for Ice-cream then this would never have come to my attention. I always read, because I like ice cream on occasion, but it has to be creamy, and definitely with NO ICE CRYSTALS. I don’t own an ice cream …
Slow Cooker Barbecue Brisket
I blame Adam Richman from Man Vs. Food. Oh and then Guy Fieri from Diners, Drive Ins and Dives. It’s all their fault. If they hadn’t featured brisket on their shows, SO MANY times, then I wouldn’t have an obsession with trying to cook the perfect one. They have also made No 1 Husband lust …
Hush Brasserie, Holborn.
A spur of the moment dinner decision this week, when my friend Liese was visiting from Athens, led us to a very good meal indeed. I work in Holborn, and used to go past French Kitchen every day and think how nice it looked. This is probably more due to a slight girl-crush on Rachel …
Slow Cooker Beef Short Ribs
I think it’s fair to say that we do like a nice bit of beef in this house. There is a certain fascination with barbecue as well, as the first time that No 1 Husband and I visited the States, we went to a fabulous smoke house in Portsmouth, New England called the Muddy River …
Oxtail Pie.
British Pie week was a long while ago, it seems, but I have been very lax in writing up this recipe. Actually I’ve been very lax in doing anything to do with blogging as I’m back at work now, and by the time I get home my brain is bleeding out of my ears. I …
Olive Branch recipe: Deconstructed Caponata
I love Italian food. Ever since my first exposure to it way back when I was a small child spending the summer holidays with my family in a friend’s apartment in South Eastern Italy. We stayed in Pontecagnano, a small industrial town on the coast, inbetween Salerno and Battipaglia. The main industry seemed to be …
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