Monthly Archives: June 2007
Going away
This blog is going to be neglected for the next couple of weeks – a very ungrateful action on my part when you consider that it’s partly this blog which has led to me being shortlisted for a major national award tomorrow.
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A pizza Italian style
Everyone knows it – pizza tastes best when eaten in Italy. It’s a bit like eating fish and chips by the sea, tucking into game in Scotland or patisserie in France. There’s something about the locations which adds to the experience.
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Little Chef: A cure?
Returning to one of my favourite blog grumbles, I was interested to see this ray of hope in the news yesterday; Glamorous Benetton looking at dull old Little Chef .
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@ Allports, Porthmadog
Fish and chips by the sea! It’s one of life’s simple pleasures and an undoubted truth that the nation’s favourite dish tastes better eaten looking out to sea. But why is that? Is there a chemical reaction between vinegar and sea air or does the connection with the sea make the fish more fish like? Perhaps it’s the added danger of avoiding the gritty crunch of sand between your teeth or the thrill of snatching dinner from the jaws of hungry gulls that helps to make the whole experience so much more pleasurable.
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Steaming muffins!
Giving Little Chef another try and tucking into a hunt-the-bluberry muffin and a cup of we-don’t-do-herbal tea, Himself suddenly stopped in his tracks.
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The clip that’s banned – Go to Work on an Egg
Yes it’s the video they didn’t want you to see. The shocking tale of eggs for breakfast.
Watch it here
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Lentils, lentils everywhere
A mixed day in the kitchen – still picking lentils out of the plug sockets but have also discovered a new taste sensation.
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Fat kids – here we go again
CHILD obesity has raised its chubby cheeks again with today’s suggestion that fat kids should be treated as neglect cases.
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Last night’s F word
Gordon Ramsay driving a flash car to look at cheese – auditioning for Top Gear? YAWN. Note to self: Get out more.
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Nobody here but us chickens
Last night’s expose of organic chicken which is not all it seems was shocking indeed. Tonight with Trevor McDonald revealed high levels of risky bacteria but also claimed that chickens were being kept in conditions which we average consumers would see as far from “organic” or “free range”.
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