Posts tagged 'foodie' - page 3
16 January 2011
Review Of December 2010 Food Blogs (Part 2)
At Mahanandi, Indira shared some innovative menu ideas for the Christmas Season, or holiday season as it is called in America - see Menu 1 and Menu 2. Maison Cupcake was cupcake decorating in a Masterclass in Islington's The Make Lounge with Mich Tu...
Read more09 January 2011
Review Of Food Blogs - December 2010
At A Slice Of Cherry Pie, Julia Parsons has been relishing our wintry weather here in England with a warming, earthy Rabbit Casserole recipe that has a quaint olde worlde charm. I love the taste of rabbit, especially farmed rabbit, which has a light...
Read more15 December 2010
Recipe For A Warming Winter's Rabbit Casserole
Rabbit used to be the chicken of England with everyone eating rabbits that live in copious amounts around the countryside. I am not sure why chicken took over from rabbit in our nation's hearts, but it might be as simple as the fact that it is easie...
Read more08 December 2010
Elsewhere In Food Blogs (Part 1)
At A Slice Of Cherry Pie, Julia Parsons has been enjoying creating with candelight with a warming goulash for a warming early November night, spiced with the gentle heat of smoked paprika, plus some meringues for pudding. Then for a warm late Novemb...
Read more06 December 2010
Recipe For Traditional Steamed Ginger Treacle Sponge Pudding
Ginger is a wonderful spice, warming and earthy in flavour with a comforting aroma. For me, it is redolent with memories of warmth indoors with an open coal or wood fire while the outside is heavy with snow. It is also so versatile with the spice b...
Read more29 November 2010
Recipe For Lamb Biryani (Based On Madhur Jaffrey Recipe)
It has been snowing since last Thursday and the long range forecast indicates that the weather will not get any better for the rest of the week; a gritter has just gone past our house in the snow. Everywhere looks pretty and white, with that eery mu...
Read more14 November 2010
Traditional Mincemeat Recipe
I am winning with Christmas food preparations this year, which seems unbelievable considering how little time I seem to have to do anything at the moment;. I am running about one week behind last year. However, as a man who cooks, I do actually find...
Read more08 November 2010
Two Recipes For Simple Chocolate Puds - Chocolate Rice Pudding (Part 1)
This recipe for Chocolate Rice Pudding was inspired by reading a blog by Helen Best-Shaw of Fuss Free Flavours fame, who wrote a recipe for Chocolate Risotto with Peaches. I was intrigued by the concept, especially having just made the Indian Tea In...
Read more05 November 2010
A Journey Back To True Korma Recipes (Part 2) - Banquet Style Korma
Since my blog the other week, I have looked further into the concept and style of traditional korma recipes and have found them a fascinating social history and felt that a korma would be ideal for Diwali. They seem to be a fusion recipe in the firs...
Read more05 November 2010
Review Of Food Blogs For October 2010 (continued)
Continuing from the first part of my review of blogs, at Not Without Salt Ashley has been making Homemade Honey Roasted Peanut Butter, which sounds so easy and is something I would never have thought of making, like making Homemade Nutella, which see...
Read more03 November 2010
Review Of Food Blogs For October 2010
I cannot really believe that it is already November, the clocks have fallen back and I am preparing for Christmas, with the Christmas cake baked and Christmas pudding slated for this weekend. So on a cold, windy, dark November morning, I looked back...
Read more25 October 2010
A Journey Through Back To True Korma Recipes (Part 1)
When I made the Chicken Tikka the other day, I also made a Lamb Korma. The end result was nothing like the British Kormas that I had been used to, so I decided to investigate the concept of the korma further. The first thing to say is that I liked...
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