New Gibson Signature Guitar..The Jeff Beck Les Paul Oxblood Guitar
Legendary guitar makers Gibson have designed a signature Les Paul modelled on English rock God Jeff Beck’s famous model. If you want one then you’d better be quick (and well off) because in true, understated Beck style Gibson will make 150 and that’s it. Finito.
The first […]
Full UK Tour Dates for Motorhead and US Tour set list….
Motorhead are set to make a rapid return to the UK stage this year with a full tour schedule in November. Having just finished a major promo tour with fellow British rockers Saxon as part of a promo tour for their last album, Motoriser I […]
My duck dish for February…
Duck paired with fruit, nothing new there but then ‘if it ain’t broke why fix it?’…..I’ve already written about what we do with the legs and the bones of our ducks now it’s the turn of the breast meat.
I like spices with duck, I don’t often stray from the path […]
My new favourite food…
For years I’ve pronounced quinoa wrongly, I’m not alone I’m sure. Well I know I’m not because I’ve told dozens of chefs and waiting staff how not to pronounce it!! It’s pronounced keen wah and I think it’s great. One thing I did get right was its origin, South America. It was […]
More surf and turf!!
I’m back on the meat and fish thing again, this time it’s scallops with duck. I’ve done something similar before but this time I serve the duck differently and have added a creamy parsnip puree for a bit of ’stodge’.
The ducks are deboned first, the breasts are kept for the main course, […]
For Melissa….
I’ve just googled ‘how to chop an onion’ and was staggered at the number one result. A video of a woman wearing swimming goggles demonstrating THE way to chop an onion. I have to say it is THE only way I have never seen one chopped in all my years as a chef.
So here […]
Alsace meets the Sea…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, meat and fish combos are the way to go. My French pastry chef looked at me as though I had a chicken on my head when I came up with this one but changed his mind when he stuck it down his gullet!
Choucroute […]
Cheese and Biscuits with a Difference
I like serving alternative cheese courses, there is much you can do with cheese given its huge variety of flavours and styles and you shouldn’t always stop at a few biscuits and grapes.
Roquefort is a great cheese to use as a starter, cook with or simply eat with some good […]
Wise words from Mr.Beck…
Once upon a time before they were famous a certain Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood made up the Jeff Beck Group. A group at the forefront of the British blues scene in the sixties they would indeed be considered a supergroup by today’s standards.
In a recent interview Jeff beck expressed […]
Celebrating New Year Chinese Style…
January 26th is the chosen day for the Chinese New Year and this year it is the turn of the Ox to be celebrated in all its glory. I love Chinese New Year, I have witnessed its celebrations in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia amongst the thriving Chinese communities, watched as they […]