A simple recipe for making rabbit terrine….
Rabbit is a very underated meat in my opinion, once the meat of the masses it has fallen out of favour with the modern generation and I consider that a mild travesty. The only problem with rabbit as I see it is cooking it properly because if it’s cooked […]
The single most important question (seemingly) in the world…..This week’s winners and losers…
Well it’s that time again, here’s my ‘up’s and down’s’ feel free to add your own…
Any Football Team That Can Pass a Ball to Someone on the Same Side….
1. A decent summer…thirty degrees in England, who’d have thought it?
2. Vauxhall Insignia, very nice..
3. […]
Photographs of the Great Crested Grebe Catching Fish….
An early summer’s evening spent strolling along a winding river waiting for the sun to set and the barn owls to appear, quite perfect. The river was busy with wildlife, it is a relatively undisturbed stretch of water and they seem to make the most of it. Further […]
Reflections of a summer visitor….
One of the highlights of any summer walk is the sight of a yellow wagtail in the early evening sun. They are a brilliant splash of colour with a voice to match.
I watched these two fighting over a puddle of water on a narrow country lane, they had been perched on […]
Photographs and information on Linnet’s…
The linnet is a striking bird which I have been trying to photograph for some time. The male linnet will happily perch on a hedge or other similar vantage point and sing to its hearts content for the benefit of the adoring females but will soon take off the moment it […]
Photographs and information on the British grass snake…
Britain, it has to be said is some way behing the US, Africa and Asia when it comes to snakes. We tend to give one another a wide bearth and I can’t say that the lack of poisonous snakes is something which upsets me. Our snakes tend to […]
The last two hours….
When you are a young up and coming chef which is generally regarded as down and out compared to most other professions the idea of cooking bar food is horrific. The ego just can’t take it. Steak and chips is what it is, you can’t turn it into a towering sculpture of […]
Following a recent spate of trial interviews for chefs in our English restaurants I was reminded of some of my interviews during my formative years in an attempt to better understand the nervous young men and women coming to spend a day cooking in my kitchens. What was yours truly like at their age?..
I can’t […]
A return to normality….
It’s been an eventful and testing couple of weeks and now I can see some small light at the end of the tunnel so apologies for being somewhat quiet with my blogging recently. As soon as I get a day off I shall be wading through the photographs I took on my […]
Information and pictures/photos of the Mod fishtail parka…
Last week I took delivery of a classic M-1965 parka. A coat I first wore more years than I really care to remember and has held a special place in my memory ever since.
What is essentially a piece of military kit for the US army which began with […]