As I mentioned in my previous post, I was thrilled recently to find chicken livers in my local supermarket. Yes, yes, I probably should get out more… but it’s just that I am always looking for them on our weekly grocery shopping trip and virtually never find them. This is pretty weird – mainly because […]
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It’s funny how you will cross town, brave weather and take time off work to visit certain restaurants, while others are very much on your beaten track, but somehow you just never get round to visiting them? I suppose it’s the same kind of thing as people who live by the sea but never go […]
Click here for a full portionHostess Twinkies… and more
First, my little phallic chiles (there’s a potential Googlewhack if ever I saw one!) and now this. Anybody want to put two and two together (so to speak!) and guess what my this post is all about?
Click here for a full portionPomegranate, pear, fennel and rocket salad
I have to admit that I am something of a salad slacker. Not to say that I don’t love salads – on the contrary, I do! But the problem is that by the time I have finished faffing around with the main course, I am not in the mood for dreaming up an exotic salad, […]
Click here for a full portionLe Pont de la Tour revisited
If the picture has a vaguely familiar look about it… it’s because it was taken just upstream from where I took a glorious picture the previous time I visited Le Pont de la Tour! But I really can’t resist posting this one because one of the most fabulous things about the restaurant (and the reason […]
Click here for a full portionHoney mustard swordfish steaks
If I ever write a self-help book I already know what I’m going to call it: “Clear your freezer – fix your life!” There is something so deeply satisfying about clearing out those forgotten and unidentifiable bits under the frozen chicken thighs – and it doesn’t even matter whether you make something delicious with them […]
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