http://garlicconfit.com
Can be bitter but, if lovingly covered in oil and slowly poached for hours, also so so sweet.
This is a little late. Mainly due to having a life and spending it covered in grub.
Some of it will be memories, some of it will unjustified bile and some will be delicious.
Try me. That is all that any self respecting gastronaut wants.
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Feb 08
If you have ever been walking down Leather Lane, around about the Lunching hour, I am sure you will have seen a few people (ok, quite a few people) in a very long queue. If it was your first time on Leather Lane you would be forgiven for thinking tha (read full article)
chipotle, coriander, Every Day Of The Week, Food Experiments, Food History, Garlic Confit Review, GC Recipes, Haas Avocado, jalapeno, lime
Feb 07
So. It took me a few attempts but I have worked out how to cook within the constraints of this diet. It is not that hard, but the first few days of detox had me a bit….let’s say cranky. I got some lovely lemon sole filleted and skinned by (read full article)
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Feb 04
So. I have started to do this diet thingy. It is for a good reason, I suppose – healthiness. There is a school of thought that says what I am doing will help my ulceration, after two years of pills I have decided to jump on the very old Vedic (read full article)
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Feb 01
Ok. So I am not on Death Row and I have no affiliation with Jesus. I am going on a kinda diet tho. Purely medical. As we all know there is NO good reason to restrict ones intake of tasty things. This morning everything began – Quinoa Porr (read full article)
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Jan 29
Jeffrey Steingarten does it the best. The French made him a Chevalier FFS. Total dedication to food. I reckon that if he were to appear on an episode of ‘Just A Minute’ should the subject on the cards be about food there would be no hesit (read full article)
ayurvedic, Croque Monsieur, DégustationCroque, Diet, Food Experiments, reviews
Jan 27
The Mrs has a quarter Vietnamese in her. I have yet to spend a proper amount of time there, but oh how I do love the cuisine. There is something about it that just trumps all the other Far Eastern lands. Don’t misunderstand me, I adore all the (read full article)
Caramel Chicken, Caramel Pork, chicken thighs, chilli, Food Experiments, garlic, GC, GC Recipes, ginger, sake
Jan 23
Debacle? Diligent? Dependable? Nope. Diet. Having reached the halfway house for 3 score years and ten, I have never attempted to restrict, reduce or change my eating habits in any way, let alone deprive my self of things I love. Alas the time has com (read full article)
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Jan 22
What is a Brownie? Young girl that achieves things and then gets badges, normally on a Wednesday evening giving Mummy and Daddy alone time to [as William Smith of Fresh Prince and Wild Wild West fame once sang] get jiggy with it. No. Not what I was t (read full article)
baking powder, brownies, butter, cardamom, caster sugar, Chocolate, eggs, flour, Food Experiments, Food History
Jan 10
There are certain things, in a culinary sense, that you just should not fuck with. One of those is: Croque Monsieur. Originally a beautiful accident, the story goes that French workers had left their sandwich on a radiator and by lunchtime the cheese (read full article)
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Dec 30
I am not one for entering competitions. I understand the concept that ‘you have to be in it to win it’, however I never did win anything as a child (except the spelling cup at school aged 9) and so relegated competitions to the bottom of (read full article)
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