Food

Plenty of friends living there atm if you want anything specific I can bounce the query to them.. Otherwise from my limited experience of Milano I'd recommend aperitifs, they are more expensive than many other places in Italy, but you get bigger drinks and the food is proper food, very large selection usually. My favorite areas for that are Porta Ticinese and the Navigli area. Also very good restaurants in the latter..

Never mind square plates:

http://wewantplates.com/category/worst-of-we-want-plates/

my fave

I much prefer swordfish a la pineapple.

needs a pie-n-apple meme

I like the irony of the cutlery.

Re pesto alternative uses:

I made a baked frittata with pesto and tomatoes, light and tasty.

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your pesto-fu is weak with this one

what happeneded to teh pesto coktails?

Will get there

no sense pretending summer isn't over; time for heartier fayre:

from > lemon-thyme-chicken-with-roasted-balsamic-beetroot

Yep, embrace those autumn roots.

I made a warm beetroot salad the other day: roasted loads of beetrrot with chilli, salt, cumin seeds, carroway seeds and olive oil for about an hour. Mixed it up with chickpeas, rocket, torn young goat's cheese and balsamic vinegar. Bags of black pepper.

It was fantastic.

I am also looking forward to the return of swede and Brussels sprouts.

Warm beerroot salad sounds great.

I am starving, but hopefully going for curry at some point.

i had a curry last night. from the fantastic Lal Baag in #wn4l

lal baag.

pfffff.

Go to ritas in southall and enjoy a real curry ;)

Went to Borough Market today, so many beards and over priced stuff. Went to Neals yard dairy and wanted to buy some cheese and it was filled with annoy people with kids who wanted to try cheese and not buy.

The french cheeses were nothing special and the couple of french areas seem to sell stuff that is supermarket fodder.

Thats a lovely story

I ran out of fresh basil so in keeping with the pesto theme bunged a load in when making pasta. Worked out noice. Yeah I own a fucking pasta tree, bite me.

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Nice drying rack. What are you going to make?

^^ #FASCIpaSTa

The rack's a bit nazi but it sure is useful. In my best Italian Scialatielli con Melanzane, Pomodori, e Mozzarella. Fried aubergine, garlic, tomato, basil, mozzarella and parmesan. Add the chopped pasta and some of the cooking water and mix. It was yesterdays tea.

Smokestak brisket sandwich, BEST SANDWICH, get involved

That's pretty bespoke.. What triggered that?

Pasta shapes giustifies the size of basil bits. Good choice!

Would have also worked with shallots instead of garlic, and salted cured ricotta rather than mozzarella.

I'm sure it tasted ACE!

I made wide tagliatelle with clams, cherry tomatoes and moroccan olives on Saturday.. Wish I had made more!

It was one of the recipes from the Leiths 'Amalfi Coast' course. I can email you some rather food splattered copies of the dishes if you want?

Just got back from Mallorca, good times, brought back some saucisson or whatever the Spanish version of it is, half a kilo of it isn't going to last very long...
Currently have some pork belly marinating in a mixture of bourbon, golden syrup, maple syrup, cumin, smoked paprika plus salt pepper..
Gonna leave it for a couple of days then slow roast...

Great thing about funemployment is odd time supermarket trip .. waitrose had a 2kg bone in whole lamb shoulder for £10; dry rubbed with ras al hanout, smoked paprika, salt, pepper, lemon zest; slow roasted on the bed of peppers, sweet potatoes and mint, made 2 meals for 2. Lamb with roasted peppers and couscous with mint yoghurt, sweet potato soup with leftover shredded lamb. About £2.25 per meal.