One of the things about living alone (albeit temporarily!) is that you still go gorocery shopping as if you are buying for two. Your shopping autopilot just seems to reach automatically for so many apples, so many courgettes, so many salmon fillets… This means that, quite often, you have leftover bits and pieces. Half an […]
Click here for a full portionFeast, famine and Ferran Adria – and a challenge
Last night I (together with 900-odd other foodies) filled the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Royal Festival Hall complex to hear a talk by one of the biggest names in the foodie world today: chef Ferran Adria of El Bulli. Adria has been called the best chef in the world, and El Bulli has been named Best Restaurant in the […]
Click here for a full portionMushroom Stroganoff and the butterfly effect
Heard of the butterfly effect? (And no, I don’t mean the rubbish movie with annoying Ashton Kutcher.). It refers to a theory that a movement as small as a butterfly flapping its wings can create tiny changes in the atmosphere that could ultimately change the path of a tornado. In other words, small changes to the initial […]
Click here for a full portionSpicy green tomato and apple chutney – move over, Mrs Ball!
I like to believe that things happen for a reason. The reason is sometimes frustratingly not apparent at the time when things are happening, but if you wait long enough, nine times out of ten the reason becomes apparent later. If things had gone according to plan, I would have planted my Moneymaker tomatoes, […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #13
City Hall – London 2008
Click here for a full portionBar-One sauce – a South African classic
So you think you’ve had a rough week? Well, spare a thought for some of the occupants of the International Space Station. First they break the news to you that of the two spiders being sent into space, you are not the Lead Spider – you are merely the understudy. So you have no real […]
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