Food and Drink – Page 13 – Smtfhw's Travels

Food 2019 – The Chinese Cricket Club, London

Wednesday, 22nd May 2019 – The Chinese Cricket Club, London This one was not of my choosing – it was a work-related dinner – but turned out to be much better than you might expect of a restaurant in an hotel (the Crowne Plaza Blackfriars). With a group of 13 of us booked to dine…

Food 2019 – Aldo Zilli and San Carlo Restaurants at Weston Hall Supper Club, Weston

Friday, 17th May 2019 – Aldo Zilli and San Carlo Restaurants A couple more Weston Supper Club events came and went in May and July, with mixed results, the July event being far more successful than this one, which was disappointing in a number of ways. The Aldo Zilli and San Carlo Restaurants event was…

Food 2019 – Recipes (Carla’s Potato and Mushroom Bake)

Friday, 3rd May 2019 – Recipes (Carla’s Potato and Mushroom Bake) I was stuck with an unplanned vegetable box from Abel & Cole (I left it too late to say I didn’t want one this week) and thus needed to find ways of using what I had. This recipe came up in the Guardian the…

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?…

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…