It went ont he fritz last week and I need to cook for six people today. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve done a dinner party for six with just a kettle and a toaster, but it seems such a setback. More importantly, I shall find out the answer […]

You know you’re probably pretty drunk when you only notice six sips in that actually you are drinking a completely different beer to the one you ordered. Last night post a free wine reception we went to the Cittie Of York where I asked for thre[…]

It is one of the hardest decisions an ale drinker will have to make. One of the problems with bitter is it has a penchant of going off much more regularly that any other form of alcohol. Which is why it is often preferable to drink in a pub which has[…]

Minging though it might sound to add ouzo to anything (such as a drink), i was pleasantly suprised with the yumminess of a sauce i made with it last night. For a pan-fried fish dish, a fennel sauce is more traditional, but last night, fennel had i no[…]

Woman Fined £75 For Throwing A Cheesy Wotsit Out Of A Car.
I find Wotsits offensive too. I bet it took them ages to remove the Wotsit dust off of the verge.[…]

YOU WILL NEED:
PROJECT A:
2 and a half x cups x PLAIN FLOUR
4-5 x heaped teaspoons ground ginger
1-2 x heaped teaspoons ground cinnamon
1-2 x heaped teaspoons ground allspice
1-2 x heaped teaspoons ground cloves
half x teaspoon salt [oops i just for[…]

There are pubs called things like The Spinning Jenny – which seem to celebrate some stage in British industrial evolution. And I bet they were not named just as said Jenny’s were new thrusting things in the world. Therefore I cannot help […]

I know I am always banging on about how good Lindsay Bareham’s cookbooks are – but yet again tonight she has come up trumps. From her book A Wolf In The Kitchen, which I was a bit sniffy about cos its a student cookbook really*, comes bro[…]

It isn’t easy being a student these days, with fees and financial pressures from all angles. Therefore the mind boggles at the story from Wetherspoon’s News: Students Prove Square Meal Value: in which two students eat out three times a da[…]

I was not a huge football fan as a kid. And anyway, my parents were not the sort to go overboard on elaborate birthday cakes. Therefore I have never eaten a football cake, either one decorated like a football, or a football pitch. Toying with the ide[…]