Further to sarah’s CAMRA piss-taking, 10 reasons to drink cask ale, including the frankly ludicrous number 8, which confuses things containing fat with things that are “fattening”. If atkins has taught us anything (which it possibl[…]

I just ate the best banana ever grown!! – so it is downhill from here on in I guess…[…]

Camra want more chixx0r to drink Real Ale Bouze, so I read once. YEAH THIS PICTURE MAKES ME WANT TO TRUST YOU PHOTOSHOP HAPPY FREAKZ0R, OH I MEAN, NOTT! Good job that elsewhere on the site they still have some nearly nudie ladies. Further tentative p[…]

And is there a good reason whywe don’tIsn’t it nice to have a have a sidebar link to A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down? Sort it out people with appropriate permissions! (I wonder if I have them, I dunno I am too busy wondering if I am goin[…]

Dudes! A warning to the easily frightened – always remember to store your Tunnocks Caramel Wafers in a safe place AWAY FROM YOUR MINT PRODUCTS. Are you listening Mr Man who sells Tunnocks Caramel Wafers for 35 pence outside Goodge Street tube?![…]

The world wide web has failed me. Pink Clove, the gloopy dark red drink which came back into my life last year (see entries on the Harlequin ) has zero presence on the interweb. Now I don’t expect all drinks to have all singing, all dancing web[…]

The stir fry 2: January is a month for trying out recipes from books received over Christmas. So far Madhur Jaffrey’s Curry Bible has yielded some lovely potatoes with ginger and a super-tasty coriander chicken dish. Actually the latter is part[…]

Somebody wrote in reminding me to name the Tooting curry house we liked so much (see below), so here we go…
Shahnaz Indian Cuisine, 102 High Street Tooting
“To avoid disappointment please reserve a table” it says here but Pumpkin Pu[…]

Ignore the waffling on about agas and scroll down to the recipe for sausage and black pudding with baked parsnips which i made for our teas last night.
Nigel, i think i love you (although i think next time i do it, i’ll brown the sausages first[…]

The stir-fry. It is not a thing in itself, it is a method of cooking. And yet it gets referred to as an end product not a process; where in the seventies Wednesday night might have been Spag Bol night, these days it may well be stir fry night. Its ea[…]