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Living to Eat!Living to Eat!Stories about discovering new food, recipes and restaurant reviews from an adventurous wannabe chef and student in West London. Articles
Bargain!
2007-08-01 18:14:00 I’m beginning to worry that I’m more like my parents than I previously thought. When I was little, I spent hours, bored, in Tesco as Dad did a very detailed weekly shop. It was completely beyond me how anyone could take such pleasure in grocery shopping*. Now the shoe is very much on the other foot. ... More About: Bargain , Curries
Goon Cooks Pork with Lime, Cashews and Mint
2007-07-30 16:37:00 Undeterred by the witty and cutting insult left for his previous culinary effort, Goon has agreed to go ahead with my plan to help him learn to cook. This is a great step forward for someone who has flatly refused to make anything more complicated than an omelette for the last six months. Now, it is clear that ... More About: Pasta , Rice , Pork , Mint
Food to Match the Weather
2007-07-28 20:09:00 Many of you who are resident in the Midlands and the South of England will recall a Friday not long ago when it rained very, very heavily all day. With such weather (which happened to catch me umbrella-less as I was wandering around Borough) it wasn’t too suprising that I was encouraged to buy and cook some proper cold weather ... More About: Weather , Food , Pork , Match , Borough Market
Tomatillos Galore
2007-07-26 17:56:00 A few months ago, my Dad brought me a few bargains from Borders. Among them was a Ł3 book on Mexican Cookery. Whilst I’m always up for trying new cuisines, I thought that this particular one was a bit out of my reach. The book described a lot of ingredients I’d never heard of before. ... More About: Vegetables , Beef , Borough Market , Galore
A Simple Recipe For Goon
2007-07-21 18:03:00 It’s a miracle! Yes, Goon is cooking! I think it has been at least 6 months since he last tried cooking properly and, even then, I had to take over. The reason for this suprising occurence is a rather nasty bug that hit me on Tuesday. It really was horrible. I ended up spending most of the day ... More About: Recipe , Fish , Pasta , Rice , Simple
A Use For Left Over Haggis
2007-07-18 19:40:00 Haggis is a funny thing. Providing you lie (or at least avoid saying anything) about what it contains, you’ll find that almost everyone who tries it absolutely loves it. However, mention the list of ingredients, and you’ll find most people run away from it, screaming. I’ve always loved the stuff and, since I started buying it from ... More About: Left , Haggis
Day of The Tentacles
2007-07-16 16:25:00 Of all the commonly eaten food creatures, shellfish and cephalopods seem to be treated with the greatest trepidation. I suppose that, in today’s world of sanitised chicken breasts in plastic wrappers, the sight of eyes, tails, legs and tentacles is a harsh reminder that you’re actually eating something that was a living and breathing creature. Then there is the fact that, ... More About: Fish , Curries , Tent , The Ten
Not Just Steak and Chips
2007-07-12 18:43:00 The problem I’ve found with being a foodie is that, the more you cook, the more sensitive you become about your cooking and the more particular you become about what you eat. At least this is true of me. I’ve discovered that there’s a part of me that can be quite a ridiculous snob. My ‘inner chef,’ ... More About: Steak , Chips , Chip
Mini Green Eggplants
2007-07-08 19:45:00 That Whole Foods supermarket is going to bankrupt me. I keep finding cool things like these that I want to try. Picture borrowed from nandalaya.com, until I remember to photograph my own eggplants. The market actually has a good selection of eggplants, from the normal aubergines we see all the time here to little yellow, white and ... More About: Vegetables , Green , Mini , Curries , Plan
From Student to Teacher
2007-07-05 17:27:00 I avoid writing posts that aren’t about food, but these last two weeks have created a rather interesting turning point in my life that I’d like to share with you, my fellow bloggers and foodie readers. I’m not a superstitious person in any sense, but over the last two weeks it really has felt like the hand of ... More About: Student , Teacher , Teac
Lemon-Pernod Monkfish with Saffron Roasties
2007-07-05 17:17:00 Have I mentioned before that I hate Sundays? Since I’ve had so much time on my hands in the last week, I have had lots of opportunity to think about exactly what I want for dinner. I can create and recreate dishes in my head to my hearts content and, very occasionally, I get a good idea. On ... More About: Fish , Lemon , Saffron , Roast , Saff
Our First Meal Back at My Flat
2007-07-03 17:48:00 As you might have gathered from my posts this year, I haven’t done any cooking at my place for literally months. There are several reasons for this. For a start, Goon’s flat was literally three minutes from conveniences such as a tube station, a decent supermarket (well, decent in the sense it wasn’t one of those ... More About: Back , Al B , Meal , Flat
Kensington?s Amazing Whole Foods Supermarket
2007-07-02 16:56:00 This post has been waiting to be published for a few weeks now. I was delaying it because I wanted to get pictures. Then I found out the store I’m going to tell you about wouldn’t let me take photos. Why some people turn down free advertising, I’ll never know! On a Monday evening, a disgruntled Goon was ... More About: Amazing , Foods , Kensington , Perm , Whole Foods
Lamb, Lemon, Dill and Broadbean Stew
2007-06-30 20:40:00 Remember the large lamb leg that Goon had fun butchering? Goon had to move out of his flat this weekend and the remaining four portions of lamb leg, which had been sitting in the freezer, had to be used up. I decided to act on Schmoof’s recommendation and turn two portions of the meat into some harissa marinated lamb kebabs. That left ... More About: Vegetables , Lemon , Lamb , Broad , Dill
Tuna Twice
2007-06-27 16:08:00 One of the things I love most about tuna is it’s versatility. I wouldn’t normally have tuna twice in one week but I had to make an exception. For the whole of last week, Goon was asking for tuna steaks for dinner. I kept ignoring him because the weather was unseasonably cold and, as a result, I ... More About: Fish , Tuna , Twice
String Hoppers: A Bit of Food Nostalgia
2007-06-19 20:52:00 Exam season has ended and thesis draft 3 is currently being decimated by my supervisor so, for a rather lovely change this weekend, I had a day off! I think the last time this happened must have been August 2006 (yes, I even taught over Christmas and Easter). Unfortunately, my first days off clashed with one ... More About: Food , Vegetables , Pasta , Nostalgia , Rice
Goon Tries some Butchery
2007-06-16 16:31:00 As I mentioned in my last post, Goon had a couple of friends staying last weekend. I was supposed to be cooking for them, so we’d bought a huge leg of lamb to roast. After all, everyone loves a roast, right? Wrong. It seems that someone didn’t like potatoes and someone else didn’t like peas, or ... More About: Vegetables , Lamb , Some , Trie
Very Healthy, Considering They?re Duck Legs
2007-06-12 18:21:00 It’s been a bad week. A week that involved three take-aways. I am hanging my head in shame. It wasn’t all my fault. Goon had coursework due in on Thursday and stayed up all night on Wednesday to finish it. Running two companies and having a day job while doing a degree isn’t easy. On the same ... More About: Vegetables , Legs , Healthy , Duck , Cons
Oh my word. It?s Been a Year!
2007-06-02 18:52:00 It appears it is approximately birthday time for my blog. I can only guarantee it is ‘approximately’ because I have no idea exactly when I started writing. I can already hear some of you saying, “Well just go through your archives and look at the timestamp on the first post, dummy!” It should be that easy. But, the problem is, I ... More About: Word , Year , Been
Green, Knobbly and Very, Very Bitter
2007-05-31 20:38:00 Last Sunday, over lunch, I was telling Goon about how I wanted to enter WTSIM no 5 (which Cooksister Jeanne is hosting) but was totally stuck on ideas. The theme this time was stuffed vegetables and fruits. Goon had a suggestion. GOON: I know what you can stuff. I’ve seen green wrinkly things. The label said you ... More About: Vegetables , Green , Lamb , Bitter , Knob
Marina and Ted?s Excellent Adventure
2007-05-25 18:07:00 Well, perhaps ‘Bogus Journey’ would be more appropriate seeing how poor Mari na and Ted ended up. I think I have mentioned before that one of Goon’s flatmates is into having late night parties with her church friends in Goon’s living room. When this happens, Goon and I tend to eat out. The reason why we abandon the ... More About: Adventure , Fish , Vent , Advent
Goon’s ‘Gourmet’ Omelette
2007-05-22 19:39:00 I tried to stop this, I really did. But Goon insists I post his pictures. On Sunday morning, Goon decided to make us breakfast, which I thought was great. He rarely does anything in the kitchen now so I was quite excited to see what he’d produce. I think I must have been a bad influence on ... More About: Gourmet , Mele
Better Than Any Ready Meal
2007-05-20 19:40:00 This has got to be the best thing to come home to after a night out. Well, it would have been if things had gone to plan. I don’t get to go out very often any more. In fact, apart from occasional trips to the pub after seminars with my fellow mathmos, I don’t go out at all. ... More About: Better , Bett , Ready , Meal
Pheasant? In May?
2007-05-18 18:44:00 Apparently so. On my last trip to Notting Hill’s farmers’ market I was pleasantly suprised to find a pack of pheasant breasts at the Manor Farm stall. They weren’t cheap, but I really miss pheasant when it goes out of season, so I was delighted to grab hold of these. At first I thought they must ... More About: Sant
One Duck Salad, Two Interpretations
2007-05-13 19:57:00 A few posts ago, I mentioned a pub meal I had that was really not as good as it should have been. This ‘duck breast salad with pomegranate and blueberry dressing’ was a great idea, but somehow had come out all wrong. The biggest problem was the duck breast itself. It was overcooked, but hadn’t had enough ... More About: Salad , Interpretation , Duck , Interpret , Etat
Dab Dab Dab!
2007-05-11 01:36:00 I don’t think I’ve ever come across a fish that looked so thoroughly delighted to be on my plate. Doesn’t he look happy? What a weird creature! I didn’t even know these things existed until last week. I was in Sainsbury’s, perusing the fresh fish counter when I encountered a very talkative fishmonger. If you’re a touch on ...
The Fish Incident
2007-04-23 18:48:00 Putting two foodies in a flat with three typical students can occasionally have disastrous consequences. It seems that Goon’s dislike for his squeamish blonde flatmate ran a little deeper than I thought. True, she did throw away the pheasant pasta that was supposed to be his lunch because she didn’t like its smell. True, she does ... More About: Fish , Incident , Cide
Assorted Post
2007-04-19 19:59:00 Thesis draft 2 is finally in! o/. Now I can finally emerge from my relative silence. To those of you that I’ve been ignoring over e-mail etc, my sincere apologies. It really has been THAT hectic over the last two weeks. Tuition sessions have also settled down a little (she says returning from teaching until 9pm ... More About: Post , Sort
Pigeon with Caramelised Onions and Plum Wine
2007-04-11 15:07:00 This was the second of my late night midweek dinners that grew into something unexpected. These pigeon breasts had been sitting in the freezer from the time I made my unfortunate bastilla. Since there was just enough for one, it seemed sensible to use them while Goon was away. Again, I was just planing to cook them ... More About: Wine , With , Pigeon , Plum , Caramel
Tuna with Gotu-Kola and Coconut ‘Pesto’ Noodles
More articles from this author:2007-04-08 20:37:00 Â It’s been a funny old week. I thought that since half my students were going on holiday I’d have loads of free time. But it seems the few remaining ones had other ideas. Ideas involving three hours of tutorials a day. Each. I have been starting teaching at 9am and finishing at around 9pm, with ... More About: With , Coconut , Noodles , Tuna , Pest 1, 2, 3 |
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