Monthly Archives: February 2009
Learning to cook Chinese @SweetMandarin
We cooked, we tweeted, we ate! This morning I took part in a Chinese cookery school in the Northern Quarter. Here’s how it went.
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Sweet Mandarin’s sweet and sour chicken
This recipe is used by the Northern Quarter restaurant and was passed onto me during its cookery school. Not only is it straightforward to follow, but also uses surprisingly few ingredients for such a delicious end result. And you don’t … Continue reading
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All the city’s food bloggers in one place
Manchester’s food bloggers certainly are a busy bunch so I’ve put together this RSS aggregation of all of our efforts so you can get the latest foodie news as it happens. The feed below is created using yahoopipes – feel … Continue reading
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Pot-roast pheasant with celery and sage
Being off work (as I am this week) means more time to do some proper cooking. I gave this recipe a try last night – it’s very simple one-pot cooking and not the way I’d usually cook pheasant. It works … Continue reading
The 50 best recipes ever
The recipes featured in today’s Observer food monthly are well worth a foodie look. Particularly useful for amateur cooks such as me are these best simple recipes Chosen by “expert foodies, chefs, restaurant critics and cookery writers” who were asked … Continue reading
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Chinese restaurant’s neat tweets
If further proof was needed that Manchester has gone potty over Twitter – you’ll find the first UK restaurant to take to the micro-blogging platform serving up some virtual dim sum in the city.
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Earth WILL re-open!
News just in that Manchester’s veggie and vegan cafe Earth will live on. Although it is still to close at the end of February, the Northern Quarter institution wil re-open at some date in the near future under new management.
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Revealed! Paddington is still into marmalade shocker
It’s almost 18 months since I first blogged about Paddington Bear’s conversion – the day he finally gave up on the marmalade to take the sensible breakfast choice of Marmite. But it seems the stuffing-for-brains creature hasn’t got with the script after all.
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How your chicken choice could impact on the rainforest
OK, let’s get the issue of price out of the way first so that we can move on to discuss some more important aspects of poultry production. Is £9 a lot of money for a chicken?
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Chip flicks? Well it is National Chip Week!
Today sees the start of National Chip Week which is why you’ll find plenty of potato related stories around at the moment. The campaign to promote our favourite fried stuff is online and across social media platforms this year so … Continue reading
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