In Search of England’s Best Pork Pie…..
I love pork pies. I am to the noble pie what Oliver Reed was to vodka tonics. Driving through a Lincolnshire village today I passed a small, independant butcher advertising their award winning pork pies. Slamming the brakes on regardless of traffic and the elderly I ran into the […]
Led Zeppelin audition for a new singer
Further to a recent post about Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones recording new material together it appears that lead singer Robert Plant is to be offered an ultimatum by the band. Jason Bonham, son of Zeppelin’s late drummer John Bonham has been joining them in rehearsal’s together with […]
A breakfast to suit all tastes
This isn’t so much a post as an open forum to help make my life easier Let me explain, in between writing this blog I have to work for a living which isn’t all bad as it involves food so I’m quite lucky. One of several projects […]
Book of the Month for September
Aiden Byrne is one of Britain’s finest chefs, he is without doubt one of the brightest new talents the country has seen in a long time and now he has released his first book, ‘Made in Great Britain’ and I think it’s excellent.
Having worked at David Adlard’s, Pied a Terre, […]
A Return to an Old Stomping Ground…
I’ve not been at my usual ‘web desk’ for the past couple of days, a new role in my professional alter ego means that there will be periods of rather erratic blog posting times I am afraid but future posts should, in time cover a broader spectrum. That’s all […]
Forget Picasso…..
Just thought I would share this with you all. A letter from my sponsored child’s parents dropped through the letterbox yesterday and with it two pictures. The letter was from May Mi Mi’s mother this time and promises that as soon as her daughter is old enough she will write herself.
It was remarkable in […]
Rick Wright Obituary…
Sad news for any self respecting music fan with the passing of Rick Wright of Pink Floyd today. Wright was a founding member of the band and his skill as a keyboard player helped shape the classic Floyd sound. I often used to like the keyboard’s as much as Dave Gilmour’s guitar playing […]
Which side are you on?
Some of you may recall a post I wrote about Grasmere Gingerbread in which I gave a brief history about it as well as a recipe which I had held in my posession for some years. In the post I acknowledged Sarah Nelson’s version as undoubtedly the most famous of […]
New pictures for the gallery
Just to let you know that I’ve been busy photographing this year’s chilli harvest and have set up a new album in the photography section for pictures of chillies including the infamous bhut and bih jolokia. It’s not all about red hot chillies, I’ve thrown some mild ones in for […]
Harvesting fresh fennel…
Fennel is one of my all time favourite herbs, it looks so graceful swaying in the breeze and the flowering heads look stunning regardless of the time of year. In the past I have grown both green and bronze fennel but now I grow only green because their flowering heads provide me with […]