The Best and Worst of the last week or so..
Conil Beach, Cadiz Province:
1. Seeing my dearest friends again
2. Seeing them in Spain
3. Proper tapas bars, not an English pub or breakfast in sight
4. My new Canon EF 17-40mm ultra wide angle lens-awesome
5. Eating fresh anchovies and Galician style octopus-heaven
6. Beyond the Great Wall by Jeffrey […]
A chilled out classic….
For some reason gazpacho had fallen out of favour with me in terms of featuring it on my menus, no real reason but more a case of out of sight, out of mind. Until last week that is. Back to Conil in Southern Spain where the sun was shining, I was staying […]
Motorhead’s Front Man is the star of a new film…
Lemmy Kilmister, legendary singer/bass player and founder of rock band Motorhead is to be the subject of a film about his life and music.
The title and release date is not yet finalised but it should be out in early 2009. It features behind the scenes interviews […]
A quick pre-June seasonal food update…
This is an in-between shopping guide to food before the start of June. With soaring food prices it is important that chefs and consumers look towards other sources for their weekly shop. Wild food is on our doorstep and although it won’t sustain a family it is worthwhile knowing that […]
A seafood gem off the beaten track…
There is a restaurant/diner off a dusty track on the backroads of Conil in Southern Spain. As unspectacular a looking restaurant as you could imagine it plays host to the vanloads of workers who stop by every lunchtime between twelve and four for a plate of their house specialities.
Los […]
For fast results reach for the fresno!
Of all the varieties of chilli I have grown this has been the fastest to fruit. The plants raced on ahead of all the others and I feared the worst. Usually when a chilli plant grows quickly it ends up producing a lot of leaf and little, if any, […]
Cooking caracoles…..
April, I am told is a perfect time to visit Spain, the wild flowers are in abundance and the roadsides are a mass of blue, yellow, purple, white and red. I caught the last hurrah, the select few which refused to die without a fight. Walking along the cliff tops the tiny purple headed thistles […]
Taking it easy in Spain….
The Spanish have a saying called ‘tranquilo’, roughly translated it means ‘take it easy’ and that’s what I have been doing for the last four days. My venue for some tranquilo was Conil de la Frontera in Cadiz province, Southern Spain.
Conil is a beautiful town in a beautiful province, a taste […]
The wanderer returns…
Well I am back at my desk after a few days break from it all. Moderately tanned and very refreshed from four days in the Cadiz province of Southern Spain.
There was plenty of ‘blogging’ material out there and more of which later, now I have the small matter of hundreds of shots to […]
Good Times, Bad Times in Competetive Cookery Competitions
We are back in the Pope mobile heading off to compete in yet another salon culinaire The Renault is packed with knives, chopping boards, display mirrors, decorating equipment (we used to moonlight as painter and decorators) and table cloths.
We went all over on these jaunts; London, Manchester, Birmingham, […]