Food

£35 to be free.

Just get a tin of Foie Gras and 2 baguettes. That's about enough ;P

Peoples, believe me when I tell you..

Is the best Mustard ever, in the whole wild world. Fact.
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Get it!

Does anyone make their own pasta? I make one with egg in that's great but I can't seem to find a decent egg free recipe that works well in my pasta maker.

ANyone have an egg free recipe that works?

Their fish prices aren't bad:

https://www.frenchclick.co.uk/c-136-fresh-fish.aspx?sortby=0&dir=0&res=#results

Could well be worth it if you were thinking of doing dinner for a few people..

Or just stock up on tins :)

This weekend I have been furiously cooking/baking. Tonight I made Ottolenghi's gado gado - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jun/28/recipe.foodanddrink and some white chocolate cookies.

i love indonesian food. i spent some time there in my early 20s and got quite obsessed. chicken satay skewers with chilli and peanut sauces from a street cart cooked over coconut husks and served with slices of coconut rice cut from a roll of banana leaf. nothing better.

i do like ottolenghi but he uses so many ingredients... it just seems so faffy and I can't be arsed. my cobbled together vesion of gado gado is:

steamed rice.
steamed cabbage.
steamed green beans.
boiled carrots.
quartered tomato.
quartered boiled eggs.
and peanut sauce made from:
crunchy peanut butter and sweet soy (ketchap manis) heated in a little pan with some water to thin it out a bit.
sambal from a jar on the side and add crushed peanuts or cashews, corriander and a squeeze of lime if you're feeling extravagent.

got this last week too.

Peoples, believe me when I tell you..

Is the best Mustard ever, in the whole wild world. Fact.
Not available in the UK, but available online.

Don't Colman's make something similar?

And also, I'm sure that one of those French shops around South Ken stock Savora.

I got hungry, so grilled some awesome black pudding, tomato from out back, and eggs from this morning, and fresh bread. Living back at home does have some advantages!

YES! That's just reminded me that I got sent a homemade black pudding on Friday which I didn't touch over the weekend. And still have some duck eggs back home. Dinner sorted :)

GRILL it.
Too many people fry it. Yeah mother bought this back from her rellies in Ireland, it's really good. I think she had meant to do some scallops with it, but she wasn't quick enough!!

got this last week too.

See him wandering about West London quite a bit. That's because I'm following him. One day he will reciprocate my devotion.

Don't Colman's make something similar?

And also, I'm sure that one of those French shops around South Ken stock Savora.

Yep, might be.
My friend just told about a few french shops in Sarf London that stock Savora.
I absolutely love this stuff, grew up on it.

I went to Ottolenghi's today with my Mum. Amazing food, as good as i was expecting/hoping and cannot believe it has taken me all these years to finally go. Something i noticed was that the dishes where far simpler than the 25 ingredient recipes his book is full of. Simple fresh and tasty.

Saw the man himself but then saw Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and was a bit disappointed to see a rock god buying his meringues...

You don't know what he plans on doing with those meringues...

Y.O. can shit the fuck off simply for having his name attached to arguably the worlds most pretentiously named restaurant.

Going to the Royal Academy of Arts of Fifteen for lunch on Friday, reasonably excited as Noodle King on Bethnal Green Rd is about as high class as I've been in recent months.

Anything on the menu I should choose/avoid?

You get that coffee machine working?

Yep, stripped the whole thing down, descaled it and bought a new seal (£3) and it seems to be producing pretty good shots.

I'm out of coffee at the moment and super busy but I was meaning to let you know how I'd got on with it, thanks for the reminder (and the bargain price when I bought it).

Great stuff. New it would only take a little more effort than i had put in to get it working. Glad it went to a good home!

I'm dreaming of bunnies.

...in a pot.

Big cooking session tonight - quick spicy pasta for tea, two big trays of biscotti for the coffee shop on saturday, burger patties for tomorrow's dinner and made jerk sauce to marinate the chicken for saturday night. I've never been so organised.

Gonna be a good weekend.

OCEANO in Leyton has just been visited. By Moi.

I'm a happy man tonite.