I mean this most sincerely, it’s not some cheap trick to lure porn-surfers to my food blog; why would I want to do that? It’s wordplay on Pigs in Blankets but to satisfy those at the back, here’s an uncut image (for illustration purposes only, please) from the mind-boggling immeatchu blog. Not sorry to disappoint, I’m referring to [...]
Archive for June, 2008
strumpet in a sleeping bag (aka whore in a blanket)
Posted in ingredients, olive oil dough, packed lunch, picnic, recipes, restaurants, tagged food, olive oil dough, puttanesca, store-cupboard recipe on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
not-so-supermarket price wars
Posted in food politics, shopping, tagged Asda, supermarkets, Tesco on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Asda and Tesco have been investing wads of cash in advertising campaigns for their all-new all-phoney price war: loss leader largesse = long checkout queues. Much as I loathe the pair - for crimes against aesthetics as much as for their ethics - I must offer my congratulations: should keep some of the johnnies-come-lately credit-crunching yet 4-wheel driving [...]
parmesan custard, anchovy infantrymen
Posted in recipes, tagged anchovy, parmesan custard, recipe, toast soldiers on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An attempt at improvising le Café Anglais’ legendary menu item had me feeling like Midas with a golden pond at sunset gilding each ramekin, but we found a custard richer than Croesus made a heavy hors d’oeuvre. Mind you, I was using all-double cream, whereas surprisingly, Mr Leigh advises a lean – almost mean – half [...]
pain o’pulled pork
Posted in olive oil dough, packed lunch, picnic, recipes, tagged artisan bread in 5 minutes a day, olive oil dough, pulled pork on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A spicy, meaty, totally convenient-y version of my stuffed olive oil bread. Make a batch of pulled pork, freeze it on trays then bag for use later. Pulled pork is a Southern U.S. barbecue classic, yet amenable to countless variations and interpretations by those unfettered by the shackles of tradition (did I say bigotry?). Here’s the basic recipe: [...]
Cafe Baixamar, Mahon de Menorca
Posted in Summer, overseas, restaurants, tagged Cafe Baixamar, Minorca, waiting staff on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Call me weird but I just don’t like it when my waitress takes such obvious offence at any punters daring to invade her erstwhile empty restaurant. I understand her feelings; years of food service taught me there’s nothing so intrusive as a damn customer when you’ve just gotten used to a bit of solitude. But [...]
Wong Kei rules
Posted in restaurants, tagged cheap eats, Chinatown, dining out, London, restaurants, Soho, waiters, West End on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m slowly, surely, resolutely and absolutely regaining lost advantage. Time was, before my extended colonial (felt more like colonic) exile, the waiting warriors of the Wong Kei on Wardour Street actually recognised me: at my appearance in the doorway their faces broke into smiles, I was greeted with hellos AND priority seating – even on Saturday nights with the [...]
parmesan custard with anchovy toast
Posted in recipes, restaurants, tagged anchovy toast, Cafe Anglais, celebrity chefs, parmesan custard, Rick Stein, Rowley Leigh on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh joy! Today’s FT features Rowley Leigh sharing his wit, wisdom and, best of all, the recipe for this hot hors d’oeuvre, the talk of London town since the opening of his raved-over restaurant Le Café Anglais, which, I see, now has a visit-worthy website. Touching to read Rowley got his inspiration for this dish from watching Rick Stein on TV; [...]
restaurant Cafe Balear, Ciutadella de Menorca
Posted in Summer, overseas, restaurants, tagged Balearic, Cafe Balear, Ciudadela, Ciutadella, cod alioli, Minorca, pimentos rellenos, restaurant on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Thunderclap followed by dramatic downpour started our first full day with a bang and skewered all tanning plans – but what on earth to do in a vacation-villa ghetto with no sunshine? There’s this: or the teeming toddlers’ activity club (no pics natch) but I’m not short enough, so once the clouds had shed their motherload [...]
cafe-bar-restaurant Sa Nacra, Cala Santandria
Posted in Summer, overseas, restaurants, tagged Balearic, Cala Santandria, Minorca, restaurant, Sa Nacra, summer holiday on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Great view, not such great food So we fetched up at Sa Nacra, a waterside bar/restaurant in (or on) Cala Santandria on both our first and last days in Menorca. I suspect we ordered the wrong things, but I got the idea the setting is so perfect nobody feels they have to pay much attention to [...]
equal opps for crooked cucumbers
Posted in food politics, shopping, tagged EU on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well hooray!! News just in that the EU (about which I am generally positive so don’t start getting the wrong idea) in its wisdom is proposing to relax its rules governing the marketing of fruit and vegetables, so the less than ideally dimensioned may once more get a look in on the supermarket shelf. In fact, the restrictive [...]
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