Category Food

Chicken Cacciatore

Here’s a little bit of an insight about what it’s like cooking a meal in Klaus the Knaus, my motorhome. This is pretty much all the space that I have. There is a lift up workspace with two gas rings…

Clotted Cream Ice Cream

Now Hot Stuff is a bit of a dab hand at making scones and on the Jubilee weekend we’d arranged to have a cream tea with the neighbours. Sadly they got poorly and had to cancel at the last moment.…

Triple Fried Chips

I enjoy reading the food reviews in the Guardian and my eye was caught by a recent headline. As I am a sophisticated beastie, ‘Serves Fabulous Chips‘ was enough to draw me in to read about Toklas, a London restaurant.…

Aubergines with Pasta and Cheese

I’ve had bouts of vegetarianism in my life, the first when I was a teenager living at home. Mum, bless her, embraced this wholeheartedly. She bought a book from Sainsburys, Vegetarian Meals by Rosamond Richardson. Meals from it formed my…

Bad Diet Day

Here’s my ultimate dessert dream from childhood, an illustration from The Cat In The Hat Dictionary Beginner Book a very well thumbed volume from my early years and still available now.  This funny clever book would be an ideal gift for…

Fish ‘n’ Chips

We are blessed to live within walking distance of England’s biggest fish market. It means that the seafood that we eat around is superb. I’m planning a future post on where I buy fish to cook myself. But today I…