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Friday Food: Top Table
Top table is an online booking and review service for restaurants, although primarily in London is does also cover quite a lot of restaurants in Bristol (and other major cities).
It allows you to search restaurants by cuisine and price. It also allows you to only search special offers. A great idea if you aren’t [...]
FRIDAY FOOD: Eating in London
This week I have been in London, so Monday night I ate in the Rhodes Brasserie Bar (Rhodes, as in Gary Rhodes) in the Hotel.
I started with breast of pigeon with tagliatelle, followed by Pork Osso Bucco, with Mash. I would of really liked to have a desert but I was rather full after the [...]
FRIDAY FOOD: The Clifton Sausage
Last week we went to The Clifton Sausage for a birthday celebration. It is situated in the heart of Clifton Village and furnished with pine tables, candles and warm yellow and sky blue walls, and as its name suggests serves sausages. It also servers other British classics, such as Toad in the hole and ham [...]
Website: Cooking for Engineers
I came accross this while looking for something completely different.
http://www.cookingforengineers.com
It is designed for analytical minds and gives you a handy visual recipe card, which looks easy to follow
FRIDAY FOOD: other websites
Being rather busy today, and not having eaten anything wonderful recently, I thought I would share with you a couple of food websites.
The first is Chocolate & Zucchini, a blog written by Clotilde, who lives in Paris. She shares all things food related – recipes, cookbook acquisitions, restaurant experiences, ideas, and inspirations.
The second [...]
FRIDAY FOOD: Sausages
I have found a wonderful place to buy sausages and pork straight off the farm.
Cherry Lodge in Iron Acton, specialise in Gloucester old spot pigs. As you drive into the farm, you can see the pigs, chickens, ducks and now lambs and sheep in the fields. The animals are free range – especially [...]
FRIDAY FOOD: Indian
A couple of months ago we went to an Indian restaurant with a bit of a difference. Ganesha claim to serve authentic southern Indian food rather than the standard Anglo-Indian food that you find in most Indian restaurants. I haven’t been to India so I can tell if it is true or not, [...]
FRIDAY FOOD: A Vegi Option
This is a bit of a different Friday Food as I haven’t really got a recipe for this. I’m planning on cooking this over the weekend, so I will find out if this version works.
It is an adaptation of a Rick Stein recipe off one of his TV shows, so no accurate quantities.
Vegetarian leek [...]
Friday Food: Warming Beef Casserole
This is a cross between a beef stroganoff and a beef casserole. No pictures this week, some of the quantities are approximate, depending on what you have to hand. This will serve 2.
Ingredients:
350g Braising Steak
100 ml Red Wine
250 ml Beef Stock (or hot water and a stock cube)
Mushrooms
1 clove of garlic
1 onion
1tsp paprika
2 [...]
Friday Food: Clementine Muffins
This is one of Nigella’s recipes [via Nigella.com] but I have made it into muffins.
Ingredients
4-5 clementines (about 375g total weight)
6 eggs
225g sugar
250g ground almonds
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
Method
Put the clementines in a pan with some cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 2 hours. Drain and, when cool, cut each clementine in [...]
Friday Food: Venison
Venison steak with red wine & red currant sauce, served with basmati & wild rice
As per Reg Coombes Coombs request here is my first proper food update. If you would like to suggest future food features, please use the comments form.
Ingredients
For the venison
2 venison loin fillets
salt and freshly ground black pepper
olive oil, for rubbing
For [...]
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Carpe Diem
A couple of weeks ago Brad and I went to the Carpe Diem restaurant.
Carpe Diem is a green and ethical restaurant, they use green energy, recycle as much as possible and their ingredients are fair-trade, organic and 50% are sourced within 50 miles of the restaurant. Even the furniture is made with wood from [...]