A recipe for pease pudding…
Pease Pudding hot! Pease Pudding Cold!
Pease Pudding in the Pot
Nine days old
So the old English rhyme goes and a perfect description for a classic dish from the north of England. Pease pudding is a simple dish made from split peas (green or yellow) and traditionally served with a piece of boiled […]
Wildlife photography with a Canon 5D Mark Two
Late last week so me take delivery of the new pro level dslr from Canon, the 5D Mark Two. It’s a stunning camera and once the batteries were charged I headed out into the late afternoon sun to try it out in varying light. Because of its massive […]
Mojo magazine recognises a dearly departed legend…
A quick post before I hit the proverbial sack after a thirteen hour shift. The British based MOJO magazine held its annual awards ceremony this week and amongst the winners was the much coveted award for ‘Icon’ given to the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy. Now I make […]
Stick this on and forget about it all….
It’s been a long day today, or yesterday as the clock ticks past midnight. New menus on the go, new staff to train, other hotels to think about etc etc. So after a shower I poured myself a glass of sauvignon and decided to kick back for an […]
East meets West without the confusion!
I never really bought into fusion food, I didn’t quite get it to be honest. I prefered the original recipes and took the attitude that ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. I didn’t want to match truffles and foie gras with fish sauce and chillies for example and I […]
How nature adapts to an everchanging landscape…
One of the joys of going on my photographic walks is observing the way our landscape changes with every nuance a seasonal shift in temperature and weather conditions brings. In our busy lives we all too often miss those ever so slight alterations to our world as each day […]
How to make the classic Thai minced chicken salad….
One of my all time favourite salads and the regular choice of mine in any decent Thai restaurant is larp ghai or more acurately the cooked version of larp.
A true larp is a salad using chopped raw meat and onions, with its roots firmly set in ancient […]
Wildlife photography with the Canon 5D Mark Two…
Well I’ve gone and done it, upgraded my DSLR, the Canon 5D to the new and greatly improved mark two version. More of which later. I’ve not had much time to get to grips with it since travelling back home from working in the Lake District. Between unloading […]
Every bachelor should have one….
After an arduous first five months at work I decided that it was high time I treated myself. Being single and childless allows the sophisticated man about town to indulge in the little luxuries in life with what’s left of his meager earnings once this government have robbed him of forty […]
Spotting and photographing marsh warblers is no easy task…
If ever the term ‘like trying to find a needle in a haystack’ applied to anything then photographing marsh warblers has to be right up there as a leading contender for the title. Walking along the rivers edge of the brayford in Lincolnshire the air is full […]