May 2020 – Recipes (Scones, Cheese Scones, Canelés, Lemon Drizzle Cake With Edible Flowers, Runebergintorttu) I should probably call this the Great Lockdown Bakeoff (or something). I’m sure it’s a pretty common theme (certainly it would seem to be if you look at how damn hard it has been to lay hands on flour, yeast,…
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Food 2020 – Recipes (Pasteis de Natas, Baked Custard, Meringues, Naan Bread)
Saturday, May 23rd 2020 – Recipes (Pasteis de Natas, Baked Custard, Meringues, Naan Breads) I know, I know. Are we doing nothing apart from baking? Well, no, we’re also working full time, running, cycling, walking, so cake is essential to break up the day! For a while I’ve been wondering if I could make the…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Banana Bread, Blueberry, Lemon and Almond Loaf, Easy Lemon Ice Cream)
March/April 2020 – Recipes (Banana Bread, Blueberry, Lemon and Almond Loaf, Easy Lemon Ice Cream) It’s been an interesting four weeks so far, food-wise, in this house as we attempt to ride out the Covid-19 lockdown and hang onto our sanity. I realise we are both incredibly lucky in that we are both able to…
Food 2020 – The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club (Veneto by Valeria Necchio)
March 2020 – Recipes (Tagliatelle with Rabbit Ragu; Bigoli in Salsa; Marinated Courgettes; Milk Braised Fennel; Prosecco and Prawn Risotto; Roast Guinea Fowl; Rosemary and Garlic Mashed Potato) This was an early – and very happy – experiment in cooking with the Great British Chefs Bookclub, where a Facebook group spends a month cooking from…
Food 2020 – The German Gymnasium, London
Tuesday 10th March, 2020 – The German Gymnasium, London This was the last meal I ate out prior to the Covid-19 lockdown kicking in. And it wasn’t planned at all. I’d been in the office rather than working from home, and had walked back to Euston from the City as per usual. I arrived at…
Food 2020 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford
Saturday, 29th February 2020 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford We haven’t been to the Oxford Kitchen since it got its current – and much deserved – Michelin star, partly because we’ve not been in Oxford much, and partly because as a result of the award it’s a lot harder to get a table now than…
Food 2020 – The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club (Fire Islands by Eleanor Ford; Wok On by Ching-He Huang)
January/February 2020 – The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club As if I don’t have enough to do, I’ve recently allowed myself to be sucked into a rather fun group on Facebook (I know, I know…), the Great British Chefs Cookbook Club. The idea of this is that every month a cookbook by a British chef…
Food 2020 – Pompette, Oxford
Thursday, 27th February 2020 – Pompette, Oxford, Alsatian Wine Dinner Sometimes, when doing other things, you blunder across something unexpected but welcome. Such was the case in Oxford the other weekend, when we went to a talk at Blackwell’s bookshop and then needed to find lunch afterwards. There was a place in Summertown that had…
Food 2020 – Trishna, London
Saturday, 15th February 2020 – Trishna, London As part of a trip to London to go to the theatre, we do like to go and have a good dinner somewhere, and with Trishna, over in Marylebone, we certainly seem to have struck gold. We made our way over from a performance of Uncle Vanya in…
Food 2020 – Pompette, Oxford
Saturday 8th February, 2020 – Pompette, Oxford Oxford is a strange city in food terms (not as dire as Cambridge, though it remains a mystery given the amount of money washing around as to why precisely there aren’t many good and/or high end restaurants in either city). However, of late Oxford has improved considerably, with…
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