Quinoa. Amino acid rich wonder grain, heralded by healthy living types the world over as the answer to pretty much everything. The only trouble I find, is that it’s kind of a bitch to cook as the window between rock hard and granular mush is very slight indeed. As a result, I have a load […]
Read More Home Sprouts Part Two: QuinoaGardening doesn’t really come easily to me, mostly because I don’t have a garden unless you count the sunless patch of communal grass riddled with fag ends and staffy wee at the front of my block of flats. In fact any hands on cultivation of that land could well end up in literally green fingers. […]
Read More Home Sprouts Part One: Puy LentilsAh, haggis, signature Scottish foodstuff, official main player of a Burns Night Dinner and noshing nightmare of millions. Lets be honest, locals aside, most of us don’t want to eat haggis for the first time. Why? Because we know what is in it! Yes your traditional haggis is a mix of sheep innards (heart, liver, […]
Read More Are you going to eat……………….Haggis?Gordon Ramsay, God love him, is known to interview potential employees on the strength of their scrambled eggs. You don’t count as a cook if you can’t make decent scrambled egg. I employ an equally fierce vetting system on casual eateries and the quality of their fishfinger sandwich, and today begins the documentation on such […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt- TrottersHello, and welcome to the first snippet of Are You Going To Eat That? Here is where we, by which I mean I, look at rare, controversial and out and out weird foodstuffs. Today, it’s Bara Lafwr, Welshman’s Caviar or as it’s widely peddled, Laverbread. On a recent trip to Wales, my other half voiced an […]
Read More Are you going to eat………….Laverbread?So, it is time to settle an argument unwillingly opened by my mother this past weekend on the subject of the favoured lunch of millions- The Fishfinger Sandwich. The preferable, even out and out correct, serving of this dish provoked a firey debate in the caravan. There were many suggestions put forwards from my luncheon […]
Read More A Worthy Debate for a Friday
Food. Boom. 