20 Aug Bling napkins
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I love these napkins!Apparently, you can get toilet paper like this too, from the pound shop in Dalston...
20 Aug Yucatecan Chicken Soup to make you feel better
Posted at 12:49h in Uncategorized
All around the world, when ill, people eat chicken soup. One of the best is a really simple Polish/Jewish- style one called rosol. My mum and gran used to make it all the time when I was little. Once I was so ill that it...
14 Aug A couple of delicious wines from the Wente Estate in California
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Discovered some great new wines in Friday's wine tasting at City Beverage. We were tasting various wines from California but my favourites were from the Wente Estate Vinyards, which double up as a yoga school apparently. Wine and yoga, what an amazing life!Myself and my...
13 Aug Stuffed red peppers with rosemary-roasted sweet potatoes in a wild garden
Posted at 17:28h in Uncategorized
If a garden reflects the person that it belongs to then I must be at least slightly wildMy peas and pumpkins appear to have vanished, and the courgettes and broad beans are doing whatever they please. Which is nice for them (I'm going to make...
08 Aug My avoiding -the-riots spaghetti
Posted at 20:06h in Uncategorized
As I am writing this, a helicopter is hovering right over my flat (at least it sounds like it) and gangs of youths are heading towards the main drag, while normal people are heading away. Being very close to Mare Street in Hackney is a...
07 Aug Baked plaice, squid and samphire
Posted at 18:24h in Uncategorized
One of the things I love about Eastbourne is that there seem to be lots of worse drivers than me. I also love the way that the sea changes all the timeIt's been great spending the weekend with my old man. I don't know think I've...
02 Aug Coffee shake
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This shake wins the best summer beverage prize hands down for meAnd that's coming from someone who doesn't particularly like coffee. You need a blender, some instant coffee, honey, ice cubes and good quality milk. The milk is key - I use full cream Tesco...
31 Jul A few veggie things…
Posted at 17:44h in Uncategorized
I love meat. I also love animals. So when I see images like I did the other day from Elmkirk abattoir, it causes me a massive amount of stress and conflict. What to do? I tried to find out where they supply to, hoping to...
24 Jul Kale Tortilla and Sweetcorn Soup
Posted at 14:32h in Uncategorized
I made plans to go to Eastbourne and hang out with my dad this weekend. Then I changed my mind. About five times actually, back and forth (luckily, my dad is extremely chilled out). I've been doing that a lot recently and I'll tell you...
23 Jul Manhattan Tophat
Posted at 11:07h in Uncategorized
I love unusual cookbooks and this one that my friend gave me tops the weirdness chartsIt's put together by SPACE studios and each recipe is from a different artist. It goes from hugely surreal recipes like Worm Sandwich, Cornish Pebbles on a bed of Concrete Fool,...