Food 2019 – Recipes (Zwiebelkuchen) Ingredients (Makes 12 portions): 125g butter 200g plain flour 500g onions 150g mushrooms 200g schinkenspeck 200g cooked bacon 125mls sour cream 150g Emmental cheese 2 eggs Salt, pepper 1/2 teaspoon ground caraway seeds Method: Rub the flour and 100g of butter together, and then use 3-4 tablespoons of cold water…
Category: Hospitality
Food 2019 – Vlet, Hamburg
Monday, 2nd December 2019 – Vlet, Hamburg Feeling altogether more human after Saturday’s illness, I have to say I was really looking forward to our final meal in Hamburg, lunch in a restaurant in the Speicherstadt, Vlet in der Speicherstadt. On their own website they wax lyrical about their location: “Among the red brick buildings,…
Food 2019 – Hamburg, Day 4, Heritage
Sunday, 1st December 2019 – Heritage, Hamburg After a Saturday to forget, by the end of Sunday afternoon I was starving, and dinner looked like a very welcome detail in our day. For Sunday evening I’d got us close to our hotel again, with a table reserved at Heritage, overlooking the Aussenalster. I hadn’t realised…
Food 2019 – Hamburg, Day 2, Wolfs Junge
Friday, 29th November 2019 – Wolfs Junge, Hamburg Friday night’s restaurant booking saw us again getting on the number 6 bus (I’m beginning to think there’s no other bus route worth bothering with in Hamburg – though I suspect I’m wrong) and this time getting off just three stops from the hotel as we headed…
Food 2019 – Hamburg, Day 1, Tyo Tyo
Thursday, 28th November 2019 – Tyo Tyo, Hamburg And so to our first dinner in Hamburg. We stopped off in the Crowne Plaza bar first, because they had given us a pair of welcome drink vouchers and it seemed churlish not to use them. The staff were friendly and fun, and we enjoyed a couple…
Food 2019 – Recipes (Celeriac, Pancetta and Hazelnut Soup; Tartiflette; Sausage and Cider Casserole with Apples and Sage)
Saturday, 2nd November 2019 – Recipes (Celeriac, Pancetta and Hazelnut Soup; Tartiflette; Sausage and Cider Casserole with Apples and Sage) This turned out to be a brilliantly earthy, deeply satisfying soup for a freezing cold day sitting in a grandstand watching Formula Ford cars race frantically. Wrapped in blankets, with thick coats, thermals and woolly…
Wine 2019 – Grape Harvesting, Chafor Wine Estate, Gawcott
Sunday 20th October, 2019 – Grape Harvesting, Chafor Wine Estate, Gawcott In a fit of possibly misplaced enthusiasm I volunteered for one of the local wine grower’s grape harvest, thinking that ahead of taking the WSET 2 course in January 2020 I should maybe take a look at the wine making process from the sharp…
Food 2019 – Leicestershire Weekend, Day 1, Case, The White Peacock, Leicester
Saturday, 12th October 2019 – Case, The White Peacock, Leicester Trying to find somewhere for dinner in Leicester proved less challenging that I might have expected given that most food guides display a massive empty space in the midlands, with just the odd oasis of hospitality, though if I’d stuck to Michelin we’d have had…
Food 2019 – Lorne, London
Saturday, 5th October 2019 – Lorne, London In between two exhibitions we really needed to make sure we found some food. A quick online search in the vicinity of Buckingham Palace threw up Lorne Restaurant, which was well located and well reviewed by a critic I respect, the splendid Marina O’Loughlin, back when she was…
Travel 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Days 16 and 17, Vaals, Aachen, Ghent, Rotterdam, Home
Saturday, 28th/Sunday, 29th September 2019 – Vaals, Aachen, Ghent, Rotterdam, Home I started Saturday with a run that took in two countries, literally exercising my right to freedom of movement while I still had it. I ran the half mile to the Dutch/German border and then went about a mile into Germany before turning round…
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