Caroline was exclaiming that neither of the restaurants she wanted to book for Valentine’s Day had a table left. So what should she do instead? I got to thinking, perhaps on the night itself have a Valentine’s night in and eat at a favourite restaurant another day. So it will need…
We’ve been talking about coffee lately. Surely we’ve not lost our taste for tea? I was beginning to worry. During my recent extended stay in France I discovered that my favourite blend no longer tasted as good. I then bought what was supposed to be Earl Grey and there again…
I’m rubbish at selecting gifts. By now, most of my friends seem to have everything they need, and can get anything they want long before I find out they want them. (And if they can’t afford something, then neither can I.) It’s a good situation to be in but it…
I like cooking. Not everyone one does. The thing about cooking that sometimes get away from me is planning. And when I haven’t planned well, I tend to waste more: I don’t have the right things, or I don’t cook the things I have. Enter Gousto. If you’re a fan of Dragons’ Den,…
I wrote about my initial experiments with the SousVide Supreme Demi in September. That time, I looked at a number of different dishes including salmon, vegetables and vodka. As the weather’s getting colder and the nights are closing in, I’ve developed a hankering for warm desserts. Luckily, the SousVide Supreme Demi…
EF is a fan of sous vide cooking – if you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll remember that Mr. EF built a sous vide machine a while back. Recently, SousVide Supreme, a company that creates compact sous vides for the consumer market, asked us to review their latest machine.…
Cauldron asked me if I wanted to take their recipe challenge: making one of their recipes and trying it out. I did! Cauldron have a range of vegetarian products, from tofu, which we eat a lot – the plain in cooking and the marinated tofu pieces are a popular Friday night…
Tea and gin might be having moments, but coffee is still many people’s favourite drink. It soothes or invigorates. If you’re looking for a bit of variety in your coffee, you could try Bean & Ground, a relatively new kid on the mail-order coffee block. (They’re offering our readers a…
The wonderful world of food blogging brings with it PR opportunities of various types. Sometimes new products are looking for people to give them a road test, sometimes restaurants invite you along to launch events and at other times there are invitations to review places free of charge. Few of…
Rapeseed oil is a great alternative to other cooking oils. It has a gentle nutty flavour and a lovely rich yellow colour. We use it in our recipes as well as other oils and like it for mayo, cakes and dressings. But there’s more to rapeseed oil than the plain version.…
