Super easy and super healthy recipes for the slightly lazy food lover, as well as tips for food shopping, health and eating out.
First things first, a rant. When I aged 16, spent my first month away (mostly) on my own, I came back to the UK and “amazing” was the word of choice to describe every experience. This over enthusiasm was misplaced and extremely irritating for my nearest and dearest (and I’m sure everyone else). The piss, … Continue reading The Bulgarian Black Sea: Burgas
Sofia reminded me of Tel Aviv: the small hexagonal paving stones ramshackled, broken and sticking up. The streets lined with over growing trees providing much welcome shade for the abundant cafés and independent shops, complete with their patrons smoking and drinking coffee outside. The recognisable smell of warmed up cat piss. It was pleasing familiar … Continue reading A very short account of Sofia (София)
This curry is a Pan-Asian mess. It’s got coconut milk and lemon grass, chilli, coriander seeds, a fuck load of cumin, and miso…and some Nuoc Cham dipping sauce too. Weird, properly weird. I was pretty tipsy when I was making this, and was a bit nervous that it would turn out bitter and nasty and … Continue reading The Quickest Curry: Spicy Coconut and Miso Curry
Hello India, you beautiful, crazy, colourful, smelly, enchanting country. I love you, And your sexually repressed moustached men Dressed in 70’s flares and shirts And your beautiful giggly sari-clad women Smelling of curry and sweat and sweet jasmine And your crazy tangled streets Full of aladins caves and cow shit and inscense I love your … Continue reading Ode to India
First day in KL… Let’s set the scene: Its 22:13hr on a hot and sticky Friday night, local time, and considering I haven’t slept since that 4 hours kip I got on Wednesday night GMT time, I’m feeling pretty bloody sparky. I’m also semi-drunk. What a day, a very pleasant one. A strange city, not … Continue reading Arrival: KL
Yo. I’m deviating, slightly. I eat a lot, and am food obsessed. So will continue to write recipes and stick them up here. However, I also travel a lot. To rather wonderful places. Where I also eat a lot, and become more food obsessed. So it makes sense to write about that here too. You … Continue reading The Travel Deviation
Whole Grain Noodles with My Peanut & Miso Satay Sauce with Fresh & Crunchy Veg This sauce is amazing. It was a struggle not to eat it all before it made it onto the pasta. We were dipping in oat cakes, celery, cucumber and our fingers (mostly our fingers) and it went delightfully with all … Continue reading Sort of Satay Noodles with Funky Fresh Veg
Chunky Chickpea, Coriander & Butter Bean Puree It’s for dishes like this one that I write this blog. For the random, delicious, off-the cuff recipes that are thrown together when the cupboard is seemingly bare, when ingredients to make some of the usual dishes I make are missing. The kind of dishes that prompt your … Continue reading Not Hummus!
After coming back from the vibrant, colourful and intensely alive India, sitting in my cold, dark and slightly damp flat in the slightly lacking town of Reading, I must say, it was not really a salad I wanted for dinner tonight. However, after 3 and a bit weeks of religiously scoffing and uncomfortably stuffing myself … Continue reading Raw Rainbow Salad with a Zingy Lemon and Smoked Garlic Dressing
Easy Tomato Soup Recipe While I’m still working on the recipe for my Donburi (I have to make it a good few times before I post it), I decided to put this recipe up; it’s really more of a rough guide than a recipe, but it is something that I’ve made possibly hundreds of times. … Continue reading Easy Tomato Soup
The Gluttonous Puttock 