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Here's a nice article from my local butcher Richard in today's Independent.... :cool:
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By design I have no matching coffee mugs - all pottery and each unique and different. I enjoy drinking my morning brew of the hard stuff out of a different mug each morning.
At the eid I was invited to some friends, and they had a friend visiting from Saudi Arabia...they brought some of the delicious cardamon coffee...you know the one that is just like pure cardamon....
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I love the turkish type coffee and have that masbout ( sweet) and I also like Greek coffee and have that metrio ( medium sweet) but the saudi style coffee has NO real coffee in it...just cardoman I...
Tonights feast is slow cooked New Zealand Lamb Shanks & Mustard Dumplings.
The guy looking after this living breathing moving mud shack whilst I am away is coming for a couple of days introduction...
Went to the dark-side tonight to the curry evening at JJ's, brilliant curries, great popadoms nice people.
Our lady guest had the buttered chicken curry,mmmm.
So all in all about 30 odd people,...
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I have to say, all of us thoroughly enjoyed every morsel of food. My friend thought she was in seventh heaven. :up I was exceptionally impressed by the rough, home made apple juice. :up :up We intend...
Mushrooms giant Shrooms.
When I first came here one of my better ideas was to use tombs, there's a lot of them about, trust me! As……. Mushroom beds.
No Go said our local green fingered MD to hot. I...
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We have 1Kg of dried woodland mushrooms packed for our return from the UK next week :eat
I remember going to Smith's Top Floor ( John Torode's ) with Bruce & Nick and having steaks they were £35quid each and 35 days aged.
Now many restaurants are ageing meat up to 200 days or even more....
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There are some great restaurants all over the UK living in the East End for 20+years was spoilt for choice
The Sparkbrook end of Birmingham has a very good selection. The main road (A38) out of...
As you do 'gezzers pass by flogging stuff, horse and cart job, now you don't know what they are flogging but more often than not it's a deal, it's a steal.
Yesterday heard the call and had time to...
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So this is what you made?
What is the texture like? Inside/outside? And are they greasy?
Went to the 'dark-side today shopping, popped into Atar's when back on the 'bright-side.
Now his bread the last few months, if one de-thaws a loaf and cuts it, the crust comes off the bread.
Has...
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nnoted. The rye bread was excellent, and exactly what our coeliac student wanted. She has taken the rest of a very large loaf back to her hotel. Everything else we tried went down very well. He was...
A few days ago I made a shank stew, nothing new in that. I dug out some chickpeas, soaked them overnight and then boiled them in hungarian paprika water, nice addition to the stew. 5 stars!
Today I...
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please be careful if they are weevils they can make you very ill so throw them out
I was running low on this amazing pork rub. So On the label is:
Gran Sugar
Paprika
Brown Sugar
Maldon Salt
Garlic Salt
Black Pepper
Spices ?
So I emailed the owner Richard, saying a customer was...
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Note: Before ST say's what a ruddy palaver, I couldn't be 'arsed well this is how to make Haggis which is one of the World's great dishes…
1 sheep's stomach or ox secum, cleaned and thoroughly,...
Whist back in blighty wandering through my local market on a Saturday sunny morning, I bumped into Aunt Gee a very jovial Ghanaian lady who makes this in varying flavours and heat and was selling her...
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I know where the Guinness came from, I recently met with its twin on the eave of loss. ;)
As half my fun is playing in my kitchen today I prep for tomorrow, listening to smooth radio london sampling and altering my mulled wine as I tinkle around in my santa elf bell boots.
I like to...
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Only 2 cloves in the bread sauce? My family would kill me if I did not stud the onion with at least 30 before infusing it overnight! During final preparation the cloves and peppercorn are removed....
My mate Nick Green has left advertising to open a new food outlet.
Chifafa:
Now it's not as though this area needs another food outlet as since here I have spotted and visited over 10 new ventures,...
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It reminds me of the local hotels run by British ladies. We are respectable and trustworthy, because we are British. (and by implication, not Egyptian)
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