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Swedish Fermented Fish РSurstr̦mming
“Surströmming” translates literally as “soured herring”, which is a woefully inadequate description of the monster that is this particular Swedish delicacy. The herring is fermented in barrels for a month or two and then tinned, but continues fermenting in the tin with the result that the tins often end up bulging worryingly and some airlines […]
Read More..>>Alsace Tasting – Green and Blue
Last night, Kerri and I went to to an Alsace wine tasting at Green and Blue in East Dulwich. We have been there before for a rather intruiging wine and chocolate tasting and were excited about going back, so much so that on the evening of an impending Tube strike, we ventured out there without […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Steak
Another lovely day today, too good not to have a barbecue. After a hard day of lying around in the park, reading, sunbathing and generally not doing very much too energetic, we lit the barbecue and cooked some lovely ribeye steaks. We also cooked some mushrooms on the barbecue, topped with garlic and parsley butter. […]
Read More..>>Barbecue Pizza Second Attempt
After last week’s barbecue pizza attempt which was really tastybut not perfect, we decided to try again to see if we could perfect it. We wanted the fire hotter this time, to try to get it to cook more quickly and blister the edges of the base a bit. The fire was hotter, but still […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Chicken Kebabs
Given the success of Friday’s barbecued lamb kebabs, we tried a similar thing today with chicken. We still have loads of oregano, so used that again, with a little oil, garlic, lemon juice and salt and pepper. The weather taunted us a little, changing from bright sunshine to cloudy and back and by the time […]
Read More..>>Lentil Ragu
Another quick, easy and familiar offering this evening. Our teeny store-cupboard is about to burst so we’re trying to use up as many things as possible, as quickly as possible. It’s not often we base a meal around what we already have in the cupboards but it’s a great way to make room for new […]
Read More..>>WOM Challenge – Two Courses for Five Pounds – Courgette Soup and Crab Spaghetti
There has been a lot of discussion over at the Guardian Word of Mouth (aka WOM) blog because some people wrote pretty scathing responses to the “Dinner for under a fiver” feature that they ran in their G2 supplement. A lot of the criticism was based around two points: 1) the recipes were boring and […]
Read More..>>Squid Ink Pasta with Mussels
A few days ago, my sister kindly gave us some squid ink pasta. We thought that this definitely needed to be paired with something else related to the sea. Initially we planned to have it with actual squid, but were defeated at the last hurdle in our search and ended up with mussels instead. We […]
Read More..>>Eating Eurovision – Greece and Ukraine
A few weeks ago, following a very successful bloggers visit to Tayabb’s, the idea of Eating Eurovision was born. The premise was simple: could 25 food bloggers eat the cuisine of the 25 partaking countries, all within the M25, within 25 hours? This was not to be an exercise in Googling recipes and cooking the […]
Read More..>>Kastner and Ovens
Covent Garden isn’t particularly well known for it’s sandwich shops. I spent many a frustrated lunch time pounding the cobbled streets looking for something that wasn’t freezing cold (I’m looking at you, Pret) or covered in mayonnaise (I see you there, Marks and Spencer) until I realised that bringing in my own lunch was the […]
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