http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress Food - Photography & More Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:39:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en iPhone diary for Saturday 3rd February 2012... Rolling the butter...we make lots of different types of flavoured butters also known as compound butters in the kitchens, some are used to flavour bruschetta and fish, others to thicken and flavour reductions for sauces. I first wrote about this nearly four years ago and ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/making-compound-butter iPhone catches a thief!.. That's it I told myself, bloody pigeons pinching all of the bird seed from my table feeder. I get remarkably grumpy when anything larger than a blackbird eats the food I put out. They should know it's not meant for them! So, yesterday morning I went out ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-phantom-seed-nibbler iPhone Diary continues... I want to include things in my diary that I can look back on and think 'bloody hell'. The photo for today will serve as a perfect reminder of the way I write menus and later in the week I shall post another which shows the finished product. The ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-menu-writing-process iPhone diary has the answer!... Cardio and more especially stationary bike is incredibly dull, I dislike it with a passion but it has to be done. As my weight training moves into its next phase (see yesterday's entry) I have been instructed to double the amount of cardio I am doing ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-stay-motivated-doing-cardio A variation on a classic... Here's a dish I came up with based on the theme of ham and eggs with a couple of extras thrown in for good measure. I quite like playing around with old standards, on the plus side you are doing something the customer can relate to ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/ham-and-eggs iPhone diary weight checker!... Well, after eating like a proverbial horse for the last six months it is now time to diet down and see if I have achieved anything at all in the gym. This diet lark isn't easy but I enjoy the discipline of it and feel better for ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/going-on-a-diet Travels with my iPhone... I took this image yesterday and it struck me that my local council were being quite brave here. It is the St. George cross and the flag of the English which, rather sadly has become synomynous with the National Front movement. In recent years stories have turned ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/is-the-english-flag-racist iPhone diary for Sunday 29th January 2012.. This last week has seen me spend as much free time in my studio as possible. I love it in there, it's a quiet, relaxing and inspiring. My friend Laurie has recently become the main UK distributor for an American bodybuilding brand of clothing ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/product-photography iPhone diary marks a landmark birthday-Part One!! It's a rough old couple of months for the boss (me) I've got three chefs with landmark birthdays; twenty one, eighteen and thirty. Doh! First up is Carrole, twenty one and a hell of a worker, she started working for me when she was ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/twenty-one-again iPhone diary entry... I was in two minds about this one if I'm honest. When I saw the scene I was struck by the bitter irony of it. Someone sleeping rough in the doorway of a bank. I was walking through the city centre and on my way to check my bank ... http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-homeless-in-britain