So a while ago I fell in love with bacon again, due mostly to my favourite cafe's bacon, which is organic bacon which they char-grill.

I finally bought myself a charcoal barbecue and tried it out today:

Bacon and bread:


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I made chocolate chantilly today, inspired by Heston Blumenthal doing it on TV, and found a reasonable site with quantities ( Read more... )

I made a very tasty pea and ham soup the other day ( Read more... )

And I don't think he's much of a public speaker, but his passion on the subject of food-related diseases is really contagious. Watch this!

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Translates as "burnt almonds", a toffee-covered almond thing.

A delicious Scandinavian Christmas snack!

Madness
250 g almonds
250 g sugar
1 cup water
1 tbsp butter

MethodPut almonds, sugar and water in a wide pan (the pan has to be large enough for the almonds to be in one layer ( Read more... )

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbreads.html#bruschetta

Also, pronounced "brusketta". So, now I know.

Take two onions and a bag of mushrooms (25 normal sized mushrooms or something). I also used three potatoes to bulk it out. Finely chop all the veggies ( Read more... )

Order is important, do the eggs last - they're the part of the dish that's worst cold, but get the water boiling right at the start (you use it for the hollandaise too).

Red onion jam
Heat a tablespoon of oil, with about half a tablespoon of brown sugar
Add 2 chopped red onions (I use quarter rings), cook on medium heat until quite soft (about 10 mins ( Read more... )

http://www.cybershingle.com/recipes/pages/soup-fishSoup-Norge1.htmRead more... )

Batali and Bourdain talk about food and sex:

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