Category Archives: Food

Cooking

Action: "A drop of alcohol will spice up this bolognese sauce." Reaction: It now smells like an accident in a mulled wine factory. Action: Trying to cook bolognese at all. Reaction: My shirt is covered in red spots. Equal and opposite? Not so sure.

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More lunch blogging

Today sees a serious sandwich combination, namely ham and mustard. I recently provided a buffet supper for some friends, and included this classic combination a long with some others, all unashamedly stolen from the Hotel Felix afternoon tea menu: Ham & Mustard Cream Cheese & Cucumber Smoked Salmon Cheese & Pickle (admittedly their combinations were […]

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Lunch blogging

Ham and sun-dried tomato omelette, salad with thousand-island dressing. Maybe I ought to do more of this.

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Cake

I’d just like to point out that Madeira Cake is very high on the list of greatest cakes known to humanity. It manages to be luxuriously moist, proving far better than many inferior sponge cakes which generally prove to be dry and crumbly. It’s not quite up there with Mille-feuille, of course, which combines several […]

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Food

Today I’m eating a Sainsbury’s Basics range Macaroni Cheese meal cooked in the microwave. It tastes of virtually nothing. Although it was stupidly cheap so I suppose that makes up for it. Coincidentally I came upon this chap who has spent the month of November living on a food budget of only $30. That’s about 50p […]

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