What’s up, what’s down…
Time for the winners and losers awards folks. Summer is generally a boring affair in many respects, politicians make themselves scarce, bad news gets buried as we are all too busy complaining that we are too hot, too cold or too wet and if you live in England all three in the […]
How to make sugar garnishes….
We do a lot of work with sugar caramel in the restaurants, they are an inexpensive but effective way of finishing a dessert and their versatility alows us to flavour and shape them whichever way we wish.
I’ve attached a couple of photographs to show you how we make a ’sugar spiral’. […]
A tree’s lifespan…
Tree’s are remarkable, to think that some of our tallest, grandest specimens started life as a seed is truly incredible. When I look at trees I often wonder what they have bore witness to? Some specimens can live for hundreds of years, others for longer but whatever their lifespan they play an integral […]
What does a ripe bhut jolokia chilli look like?
A couple of years ago I managed to grow the world’s hottest chilli; the bhut jolokia which I wrote several posts about. These have attracted many visitors to the site along with a lot of questions on how to grow them but also when to tell when […]
A tale from the riverbank…
I love to watch swallows and martins, they are the busiest of birds and I watch in wonder as they feed on insects in mid-flight, swooping over and across a river snapping up flies with such incredible accuracy.
As I walked along a river bank close to where I live I was […]
My favourite photo from the last week or so…
After what seemed like a very long week away I am back home. Too tired to type much so it’s time for a cold beer, watch an episode of M*A*S*H, empty the washer and go to bed.
Two hundred miles away it rained all day, every day. Now […]
Cooking fillets of flat fish
Is the turbot the grandest fish of them all? I’m not sure what the dover sole would make of that but it’s certainly right up there. If price was the single determining factor then the answer would, at the time of writing be a resounding ‘Yes’!
It is a wonderful fish which […]
A light, Asian inspired fish dish..
Here’s a dish I have just put on one of our restaurant’s menus;soy and sesame glazed monkfish with Vietnamese broth. I wanted to come up with something light and healthy that would suit those tropical English Summer evening’s
Asian soups, broths, call them what you will are truly […]
Photographs of Barn Owls and Juvenile Barn Owls in Lincolnshire….
Yesterday was meant to be nothing more than a quick stroll along a river bank before work at lunchtime, I almost didn’t bother taking my camera. Good job I did…..
Barn Owl
I never expect to see barn owls at ten o’ clock on a July […]
Area Development Programme for Hlaing Tharyar (West)…
Regular visitors to this blog may recall an active interest I hold in an area of Myanmar called Hlaing Tharyar. For it is the home of a young six year old girl whom I have sponsored during her short life and an area sadly neglected by not only her […]