WHO THE HELL PUTS MILK IN VEGETABLE STOCK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Ahem. Well it all came very close to falling at the first hurdle I have to say but I am nearing the end of day one veganating without a slip. No thanks to you, Tesco Everyday Basics Vegetable Stockcubes. Whilst banging together my lunch for today I […]
Read More The Vegan Diaries: Day One- The Lactose MenaceI was hoping to have a nice long piece to write today about the Colchester Oyster Festival (not to be confused with June’s Oyster Fayre) but sadly it seems that I don’t have enough nice things to say about it to do so. It was a shame, as I’d been looking forwards to it for […]
Read More Just Beef StewIt may shock you, dear reader, to be told that I generally enjoy eating. No really, I do, many times a day and many things. What with loving food and being a woman of a certain age who doesn’t exercise an awful lot, I go through stages of hyper awareness of food lables and find […]
Read More Fuller longer and it ain’t no lie.For those of you used to seeing the more exotic foodery in Are you going to eat that? I should confirm first off that I am just talking about your bog standard eggs. Hen eggs. Chicken embrya. Un-fertilized pullus zygotes. Yeah, eggs. Eggs have been a topic of hot debate in the food/health pages for […]
Read More Are you going to eat……Eggs?Ah, Kedgeree. Famed anglo-indian brunch dish of curried fishy ricey stuff. It’s a personal favourite of mine I must admit. A bit like yorkshire pudding. Obviously, Kedgeree is nothing like yorkshire pudding in a literal sense, but as with the famed yorkies I have never made a traditional kedgeree that I was completely happy with. […]
Read More KedgerishEver wonder what would happen if celery and asparagus came together in some kind of stemmy hybrid horror film? Celtuce would happen. So what is celtuce, you may ask, as it does rather sound like a made up word. Ask you should and ask I did when a friend of mine told me that her […]
Read More Are you going to eat………………Celtuce?Le sigh. Yes, here it is kids, another week of hard rinsing and nurture (I even sang to them for a little while) and pictured above is my triumphant, single black bean sprout. Turns out that my staggering lentil crop of earlier weeks was a freak positive result rather than an easily swinging open doorway […]
Read More Home Sprouts Part 3: Black Beans.A casual conversation about the perils of mushroom foraging with a co worker earlier in the month left me with a real craving for the humble fungi. I love mushrooms, and they will soon star as Food Heroes in their own right, but I have to admit I’m too scaredy to attempt picking my own. […]
Read More Creamy Mushroom RiceYou know, there was a day a very long time ago that I was under the impression that I didn’t like potatoes. Unthinkable, obviously, it turns out I just really don’t like boiled potatoes (sorry Mum). I mean, what a bloody waste of a perfectly good vegetable! Or tuber or complex carb, whatever, your options […]
Read More Food Hero: The Baked PotatoGardening 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 Lentils
Food. Boom. 