David Rosam on Dec 19 2005 | Filed under: Food & drink, Stuff
Last night, I was cooking dinner.
I took a large celeriac in a plastic bag out of the fridge and asked my wife whether she wanted it with our meal. With a look of surprise on her face, she said “What’s that, a human head?”.
As if I normally keep my severed heads in plastic bags in [...]
David Rosam on May 01 2005 | Filed under: Food & drink
Wow! My habitual and usually fruitless searching for Ridgways Organic Leaf Tea hit the jackpot in Tesco in Shoreham yesterday.
I bought six packets, just in case Tesco gets bored with stocking it again.
David Rosam on Nov 25 2004 | Filed under: Food & drink
Something I invented this evening, method based on Chicken with Nutmeg from River Café Cook Book Easy, a favourite recipe in the Rosam household.
1.5kg organic chicken
4 pickled lemons
Pack of fresh thyme
1 head of garlic
125ml dry vermouth
Extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
Serves 4.
Heat the oven to 190 deg C or Gas 5.
Open up a pocket between the [...]
David Rosam on Sep 14 2004 | Filed under: Food & drink
A few weeks ago I bought a real cookbook - The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. This is a huge tome, with 200 pages of background before you get some recipes. These days, I’m increasingly hungry for theory and detail, rather than lifestyle - although Meat is perhaps more fundamentally about lifestyle than [...]
David Rosam on Apr 08 2004 | Filed under: Food & drink
Bacon sandwiches!
Especially when you didn’t realise there was any bacon in the house.
Does this bode well for Easter?
David Rosam on Mar 18 2004 | Filed under: Food & drink
Seems that bread exhibits fractal characteristics. Somehow I missed out on that little factoid.
And just to prove it:
Midwood Chaos: The Fractal Dimension of Bread
So what’s it doing on Dangerous Thinking? Well, I’ve been reading Jeffrey Steingarten’s second course of writings about food Was it something I ate? (it’s just as essential reading as his [...]
David Rosam on Sep 20 2003 | Filed under: Food & drink
I very seldom eat in Brighton. Not that there’s anything wrong with the restaurants there, as a whole, but we have some nice ones within walking distance here in Worthing.
But last night we went to celebrate a friend’s birthday. She chose a place called the Cactus Canteen, a Tex-Mex restaurant just off the lanes.
Please [...]
David Rosam on Aug 17 2003 | Filed under: Food & drink
I’ll make a note of this, while I think of it.
It’s a kind of evolution of Jamie Oliver and other pasta recipes I’ve made recently, incorporating all the things I’ve liked best from them.
For two
Half a pack of rigatoni
A splash of olive oil
A red onion, thinly sliced
Pack of cubed pancetta
Half an organic red pepper, [...]
David Rosam on Aug 15 2003 | Filed under: Food & drink
Wandering around Tesco in Hatfield last weekend, I found a bottle of Leffe Blonde/Blond Belgian beer, with a champagne-type cork, complete with metal basket.
Today is Friday, so it’s time to open it. And it’s great, with a flavour that only comes with Belgian beer.
I have told you about my theory that the Belgians have had [...]
David Rosam on Aug 10 2003 | Filed under: Food & drink
A little experimentation over the past few days when good old Blighty has had some nice weather for a change has shown how the posher the establishment, the worse its ability to deliver cold drinks - be it alcoholic or soft.
Take the Crowne Plaza Hotel, London St James, in Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1, just [...]
