Category Archives: Food and Recipes

School dinners

This blog called Never Seconds is written by a 9 year old schoolgirl who every day takes a picture of her small sized, highly processed school dinner and posts it on the site. The price of each meal is £2. … Continue reading

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Sly Antro in Respekt

My friend Sly Antro interviewed for Respekt magazine recently. English translation.

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Growing food on your balcony

The Telegraph has this article on balcony gardens written by a former ginger flat mate of mine. Former flat mate that is – he’s still ginger.

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One a Day 166/365 – T-bone

Popped into the Savoy Grill today. Expensive but great and friendly service. I had the Crab Mayonnaise, T-bone with mashed potatoes and carrots, and Eton Mess. A bottle of Medoc washed it all down.

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Kenya Peaberry coffee – try it now!

This coffee has to be tried. It is available from Whittard as a medium roasted coffee and is exactly the coffee I like. Not too strong, but good enough to get me going in the morning. Buy beans and grind … Continue reading

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Chicken and Leek Pie

Serves 4-6 This recipe is based on the Beef and Mushroom Pie recipe. Several things are different for a chicken pie – the main one is that the chicken has less fat so I’ve added some butter in to help … Continue reading

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Beef and Mushroom Pie

Ingredients (Serves 4-6) 1.2kg of Beef. Stewing steak is fine.4 large flat mushrooms1 stick of celery1 carrot2 onions3 cloves of garlic500ml beef stock (e.g one stock cube made up)Half a bottle of red wine3 tablespoons of plain flourFreshly ground pepper … Continue reading

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Cheese Fondue

We start the blog with a simple Fondue recipe. This is an exceptionally easy thing to make considering that you will pay at least 20 Swiss Francs in a restaurant for a good fondue. Ingredients180g grated Swiss Gruyère cheese1 tablespoon … Continue reading

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Open bananas more efficiently

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Gluttony

Maybe I’m getting old, but I’m beginning to get distressed by gluttony, particularly when there are people going hungry in the world. As a slightly fatter person maybe I’m not in a position to comment. Anyway, here is a video … Continue reading

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