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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. 
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Tastes Like Chicken
2007-10-14 10:31:00 I distinctly remember my first taste of rabbit. It had been cooked lovingly by my own hand, back in the first year of my PhD. The flavour was distinctive, it was earthy and grassy and I’d call it an acquired taste to say the least. Despite what people had previously told me, it didn’t taste anything like chicken. ... More About: Chicken
A Rather Late Account of the first Weeks of Term
2007-10-14 09:36:00 What fortnight that was! Just over six weeks ago I was sitting in the Huxley Building at Imperial Colllege, not quite believeing that that would be my last day there. It would be my last day of sitting in the office on my own, staring at the wall while waiting for inspiration to jump out at me, my last day ... More About: Late , Account , Term , Weeks
Mutton Neck and Pearl Barley Stew
2007-10-08 20:07:00 Our new flat has some good points and some bad points. There are a few teething problems. We still need to have our washing machine repaired and the central heating is broken, but the only real annoyance is the journey to work. When I decided to take the flat, I looked at a map and thought the ... More About: Lamb , Mutton , Borough Market , Pearl , Earl
A Treat for Payday
2007-09-29 15:26:00 Last weekend I got my first paycheck! So naturally it seemed only proper that I should go shopping and spend all of it at once. The problem is that there see to be very few decent shops in my area. To have a fighting chance at bankrupting myself, I needed to go all the way back ... More About: Fish , Treat , Payday
Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly
2007-09-22 11:53:00 Good grief. What a fortnight! If any of you are considering moving, submitting a thesis and starting a new job within the space of a week, take my advice. Don’t do it. It’s not good for you, especially if the job turns out to have suprisingly long hours. Two weeks ago I was under the impression that ... More About: Service , Normal
It?s Been Rather Quiet Around Here Lately?..
2007-08-21 12:14:00 That’s beause i’m finalising my thesis. It’s almost done, I just need to check it through for spelling and grammar mistakes and possibly, if I feel really keen, check the big algebraic calculations again. If you’re very bored and want to see what maths geeks spend their time doing, I’ve put it here as a pdf ... More About: Rather , Been , Quiet
Someone Find Me a Decent Kitchen!
2007-08-17 18:09:00 A little while back I told you about my new job up in Highgate School. Time is certainly passing quickly and, with just a few weeks left before I start work, it’s time Goon and I found a new place to live. Of course, the most important thing for me in a flat is a decent ... More About: Kitchen , Find , Beef , Noodles , Chen
No Artificial Colours. Really, I Promise!
2007-08-09 16:20:00 Now, I like pink, but this is just ridiculous. Mackerel with gooseberry sauce is a classic pairing. I love this fish, so this is a dish I’ve wanted to make since I first came across it on the menu of a pub almost five years ago. The reason I took so long is, although mackerel is always easy to get, gooseberries ... More About: Fish , Colours , Promise , Really , Ally
Goon Cooks Baked Fish with Sour Cream and Capers
2007-08-07 17:11:00 Goon think’s there’s something a little scary about Delia Smith. I think it’s something to do with this picture. I never thought I’d end up buying a Delia book. It’s just not my style of cooking. I’m much more of a Gordon Ramsey fan. However, a few days ago, I bit the bullet and picked up her ... More About: Baked , Fish , Goon , Cream , Cooks
Ostrich ?Yakitori?
2007-08-03 15:51:00 Here’s a question for the food bloggers reading this. Have you ever made a dish that you were so pleased and excited about, you wanted to blog it right away so that other people could also try it, only to find that, when you uploaded the photos, every single one looked like utter crap? What do you ...
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 £3 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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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