The lovely Food Urchin had extolled the virtues of his local Turkish restaurant so I, always eager to find a really good place to eat near where I live, asked for the details. High Road, Hornchurch is apparently the place to be for really good Turkish food. Life got busy for a couple of weeks, …
Tag: comfort food
Halloumi Pie
This is, basically, a variation on the filling from a Greek Easter pastry called a flaouna. I adore them. An addiction was born the first time I tasted one, still warm from the oven at my Auntie Helen’s house.A brief history: http://kopiaste.org/2008/04/easter-flaounes/ but there's no recipe there unless you buy the book. This link is …
Pork Belly, good for what ails ya.
I am a great fan of pork belly. There is something so very satisfying about it, so ultimately savoury and luscious. I love the contrast between the tender meat, the slippery fat and the salted crunch of the crackling. The treat of eating the flavourful meat from off the bones is also a very satisfying …
Winning ways with Cinnamon
This household has a love affair going on. It's not illicit, but many just don't understand it."How can you do that?" is a comment I often get. "We just don't get how that would work."But work it does. Our many times requited love is for cinnamon. That dusky brown powder, those curls of perfumed bark …
The Hot Cross Bun mission.
Yes, it has indeed been a mission. I was determined to make some for no reason other than I wanted to make some. I know you can buy them for silly money but it's not quite the same, plus the house smells so nice when they are baking. I never remember to get around to …
Shortcuts: not always a bad thing.
There are days when you just need a cookie. This often falls on a day when I don't have the spoons to stand up for too long so that's a bit of a bugbear and today was one of those days.I found a box of Betty Crocker cake mix in the cupboard which needed to …
Red meat and me.
A few weeks ago I had a bit of a disaster cooking some steak. It turned out tough and it had no right to be so, as it was very, very good rib-eye from Westin Gourmet. I began to worry that I'd lost my steak cooking mojo. I managed to forget about it for a …
I blog, you blog, they blog, WE blog
I have been thinking rather a lot lately about this whole food blogging phenomenon that has swept across the pages of our much beloved Internet. Long gone are the days when The Interweb was purely a geek preserve, a place to swap conversations consisting of capital letters and ASCII characters, spark amazing – and not …
Red and Black, Addiscombe.
I was actually going to go to bed about half an hour ago and then I started looking at the photos from my meal out on Friday. So now I'm hungry again despite eating the last of my brown rice and gammon bake.Lovely New Person (okay, Col from hereonin) and I had a weekend date …
That’s the leftovers done with.
Rice and gammon bake. That's what I had in mind.Now. I have learned a lesson here and that is that brown rice takes AN AGE to cook and far more water than white rice does.I have cooked brown rice before, and never had any such trouble but my word, I must have had what a …
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