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Food 2019 – Sunday Lunch at the Muddy Duck, Hethe

Sunday, 5th May 2019 – The Muddy Duck, Hethe Having tested the “normal” small plates menu at the Muddy Duck a couple of weekends back, we headed that way again over the recent bank holiday weekend to try out Sunday lunch as a birthday celebration for one of our closest friends. Would they measure up?…

Travel 2019 – Lunchtime Tourism, Day 5, Walk from Euston to Borough Market, London

Friday, 3rd May 2019 – Walk from Euston Station to Borough Market via the City, London You see the oddest things when you walk through London, even just the small quarter that tends to represent my regular beat. Sometimes there’s just no explanation for them, the most notable being the pink elephant in the Brunswick…

Food 2019 – Recipes (Caribbean Pineapple)

Sunday, 28th April 2019 – Recipes (Caribbean Pineapple) A recipe of my very own, though it’s not exactly difficult or complicated (it does, however, require you to feel confident about caramelisation). It came about when a pineapple went slightly over and was about to become unusable… Caribbean Pineapple Serves: 2 Time: 20-30 minutes Ingredients: 1…

Food 2019 – Recipes (Wild Garlic Pesto, Wild Garlic Pasta, Wild Garlic Veloute, Pickled Wild Garlic Buds)

Saturday, 27th April 2019 – Recipes (Wild Garlic Pesto, Wild Garlic Pasta, Wild Garlic Velouté, Pickled Wild Garlic Buds) I like wild garlic, possibly excessively… and I have a patch in my garden that is pretty much full of it at this time of year. Now, it’s not the biggest garden, so we’re not talking…

Food 2019 – Pied à Terre at Weston Hall Supper Club, Weston

Friday, 26th April 2019 – Pied à Terre, Weston Hall Supper Club, Weston Friday night was another of the Weston Hall supper club events, this time with the cooking provided by Pied à Terre, a London restaurant I still haven’t got to (though I did eat at its now-departed sister restaurant, the rather brilliant L’Autre…

Food 2019 – Recipes (Souffléd Crab and Asparagus Tart)

Monday, 22nd April 2019 – Recipes (Souffléd Crab and Asparagus Tart) I made this over the weekend because I wanted a change from asparagus with ham or with Hollandaise sauce or both, and I had a couple of dressed crab in the freezer. I’ve been buying Food & Travel magazine for a while, which won’t…

Food 2019 – The Muddy Duck, Hethe

Saturday, 20th April 2019 – The Muddy Duck, Hethe Following on from a theatre trip to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the sublime Kunene and the King at the Swan Theatre, and unhappy to remain in the town on a sunny holiday weekend when you could barely move for the crowds everywhere, we headed cross country towards…

Food 2019 – Recipes (Plum Cake)

Tuesday, 9th April 2019 – Food/Recipes, London I have a confession to make. I suffer from an irresistible attraction to German cakes, particularly plum cakes. It goes back a long way. As a child in the 1960s we initially spent our holidays in the UK, but aged 6 I left the UK for the first…

Food 2019 – Wine Dinner, Cigalon, London

Tuesday, 26th March 2019 – German Wine Dinner, Cigalon, London I’m rather fond of Cigalon, on London’s Chancery Lane, and in particular I’m partial to both its monthly menu “test sessions”, which are usually on a Monday, and now of their wine dinners having attended a recent one. A reasonable (for London anyway) £50 per…

Food 2019 – The White Hart, Preston Bissett

Saturday, 23rd March 2019 – The White Hart, Preston Bissett This was a bit of an unexpected one. The White Hart had popped up on my social media radar with a friend request, and while I didn’t know exactly who they were (or for that matter precisely where Preston Bissett was, though the postcode suggested…