Where's your self re-cocking-spect? Apparently people hate those posts where errant bloggers go, "I'm so sorry for being AWOL" or "So you're probably wondering (...)
Tarragon sugared doughnuts with pink peppercorn ice cream
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Tarragon Sugared Doughnuts and Pink Peppercorn Ice Cream I am contrary. If someone tells me to go left, I feel myself veering to the right (this is possibly (...)
The national dish of Burma is called mohinga, a kind of fish chowder with lemongrass and banana stem that's served over rice vermicelli noodles. But arguably (...)
Some people don't like century eggs. Those people are wrong. Whenever I visit Burma, I try to consume five times my bodyweight in food - that’s just the way I (...)
Google "macaroni cheese recipe" and you'll get over 400,000 results. So why am I giving you another recipe for mac 'n' cheese, aka macaroni cheese, aka mac & (...)
Gong Bao or Kung Pao Chicken As a child, my musical tastes were dictated by my parents. Having arrived in the UK just before I was born, their choices largely (...)
Crispy Salt and Pepper Squid There's nothing wrong with succumbing to the occasional takeaway, and I've recently been craving a lot of Chinese food. Our usual (...)
Killer Kimchi Kimchi. Practically the national dish of Korea, this potent pickle is pungent, sour, spicy and unnecessarily delicious. It works well as a (...)
Last year I was lucky enough to be one of the judges at the inaugural Scotch Egg Challenge held at the mighty Ship pub in Wandsworth. 2012's Scotch Egg (...)
Egg and Bacon Tarts So Sainsbury's contacts me. They say, "Next month is Organic September - a month long promotion of organic food by the Soil Association - (...)
Japanese scallops with soy butter and black sesame
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When I was ill, the doctors ran all sorts of tests on me and discovered I had a slight calcium deficiency. My diet doesn't contain an awful lot of dairy, so I (...)
"Take one camel hump and mince finely. Add diced shallots, capers, Tabasco and a raw egg and mix thoroughly..."I have a morbid fear of being the first person (...)
Tonkatsu japanese pork cutlet with panko breadcrumbs
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A lot of people think Japanese food is just raw fish. Whilst sashimi is one of my favourite things to eat, this notion couldn't be further from the truth.My (...)
A friend of mine who runs my favourite pub* recently told someone that I had some brilliant stir-fry recipes right here on my blog.I was forced to admit that (...)
Wafu pasta or wafuu pasuta is the slightly bonkers, Japanese interpretation of Italian pasta dishes (wafu meaning Japanese style).The first time we went to (...)
Som tam recipe - spicy thai papaya salad from thailand
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Som tam is more than a Thai salad - it's a trial by fire.Journalist Marina O'Loughlin commented that, "I had one in Bangkok that was so fiery I almost had an (...)
Regular readers may be aware that I'm not a fan of baking, partly because I haven't got a particularly sweet tooth, and partly because I cannot be faffed with (...)
I've never been a fan of spring rolls. I'm fairly sure this is as a result of early exposure at school dinners to a comestible dubbed a pancake roll - a huge, (...)
Tom yum, that soup of wonders, that spicy restorative, that Thai dish which even gave its name to a Tony Jaa action film for reasons that still escape me (...)
Saturday evening, I'm at a family wedding, full of cake and gazing happily at the flickering tealights dotted around on my table. My 10 year old niece comes up (...)
The first time I had laksa was almost a decade ago in South Kensington, in the uninspiring environs of Oriental Canteen (which was dilapidated even then), due (...)
A new series of Gordon's Great Escapes hosted by Gordon Ramsay starts tonight (Monday 9 May) on Channel 4.In the last series, Ramsay explored India, but this (...)
Speculoos Biscuits with Prune and Armagnac Ice Cream
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I'd never heard of speculoos till Edd Kimber aka The Boy Who Bakes mentioned it to me. Speculoos (or speculaas) is a spiced, gingerbready biscuit from Belgium (...)
