Simple and tasty food.
I just discovered a great new Irish beer and I wanted to share. There are some amazing new micro breweries springing up around the country and I think they deserve our support. I found this beer in a great new gastro pub – The Exchequer Gastro pub who serve fantastic food as well as having a great collection of beers. But back to the beer. Helvic blonde has all the …
Thai curry is now one of the easiest things to make thanks to the plethora of pastes available on every supermarket shelf. But what really goes into an authentic Thai Massaman curry paste, and how hard is it to make from scratch. I decided to find out. I recently got Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey and adapted my recipe from this wonderful book.
Soufflés are really about catching the moment, so it I think it’s pretty apt to make a soufflé for Valentines day. Soufflés takes a bit a work, alot of love and a little bit of patience, but the moment you see a perfectly risen soufflé come out of the oven, it all seems worth while. Read on for more cheesiness…
It was a Friday evening after work. It had been a long day and I was tired and cranky. I had come home to find lots of stuff in the fridge well past it’s sell by date. I hate throwing stuff out. I feel like I have let myself down and not followed up on all my foody plans. In the fruit bowl, there was a gaggle of bananas …
I am going to start my blog with a tart. I had lots of great pastry plans on Saturday. It didn’t all work out exactly as planned but the end result was really tasty. I had been craving a really nutty bakewell tart. I had just finished making my pastry and was putting it in the fridge to chill, when I realised I had only one egg left and I …