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I was really lucky to be offered the chance to hang out with some real food bloggers recently, and even luckier to sample a ten-course tasting menu at Tom’s Kitchen. Cloudy Bay hosted the evening as they wanted to find out which dishes we would pick for their Cloudy Bay Shack event hosted in July. [...] London lunchers will no doubt be familiar with the burrito, it’s still one of my fave choices to fill up my belly but there’s so much more to Mexican than that. Despite to the horrendous acoustics of the canteen-style dining (a pet hate of mine) and the kooky no-booking system I’m also a bit of [...] There are a lot of places that my love of food comes from, not least my grandparents’ incredible cooking, but school was also a big influence and forever cemented my dogged love of canteens. Lunch in the canteen was compulsory (no packed lunches allowed), and it being a French school was always three courses. Salads [...] I just ate these wraps sat in the garden soaking up the sun, and the mix of herbs, nuts and a pop of juicy fruit made it feel like being on holiday. They’re inspired by a tasty, tasty side dish I had in a Persian restaurant on a random trip to Merton. Just a [...] Having a between brunch and dinner hunger pang, heightened by the dull pain of a gin hangover, I decided to make some dang quesadillas, much more excited than your common cheese toastie. Hands up who can think of a quesadilla without saying ‘make yourself a dang quesadilla!’ from Napoleon Dynamite. I know it’s lame but [...] There’s nothing as cosy as having a clean house, new sheets on the beds and a chicken roasting in the oven on a Sunday night. A roast is a lovely way to end/start the week, but if you really get into all the trimings as I usually do it becomes a bit of a stodgefest [...] Like I mentioned yesterday, I had a stab at making hot and sour soup. Moonface had been going on about Viet Hoa on Kingsland Road and their hot and sour soup for about a year, and it wasn’t until I had to to go to a ’90s Summer of Reggae party (don’t ask, or do, [...] |
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