OK this is not an proper omlet but a SPANISH OMLET minus TATERS but PLUS PAELLA but MINUS RICE
i. Fry big bunch of pre-cooked shrimps or prawns in butter and a bit olive oil, ideally in griddle pan (=has little ridges)
ii. Also smoked mackerel (take[…]

Also from Never Had It So Good by D.Sandbrook:
“When the budding promoter Andrew Loog Oldham wanted to impress the American record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s he took him to lunch at the Angus Steak House in Soho.”[…]

You will need: Five potatoes (floury; medium size — one can be small!) Young-leaf spinach (half a salad bag) One ripe avocado Three small onions Chicken or veg stock cube (actually I used matigold swiss vegetable bouillon powder) Chilli Oil But[…]

I have a rule, not often tested, where I won’t go to two restaurants in one day. It is mainly a rule based on financial prudence, but yesterday when I broke the rule other things became apparent. You eat out twice in one day it stops being spec[…]

1. The geezer who made pikachu cheese shapes
(except they all look disgusting, and kind of not much like a pikachu, maybe if you put MARMITE on the brie to create his stripes!)[…]

v.neat and tastable SBD-friendly recipe
YOU NEED: salmon steaks (size as per M&S’s giant bag o’salmon) (ie strips 1 x 3″); young spinach leaves; eggs; dried chillis; butter; wok oil (i use groundnut); vinaigrette
THEN DO THI[…]

The new quiz season at the Three Compasses started last night. This is a twelve week season, unlike the six week one which we walked just before Christmas. And out team is understrength, having lost members to the 21st century malaise that is traveli[…]

1: Its open til 1am Monday – Wednesday, 2am the rest of the week.
2: It does White Russians for £3.50. Most other cocktails are £4.00.
3: It has a free sequential jukebox.
4: They are adding two karaoke boxes to the venue as we speak.
5: The […]

…The story so far. Once upon a time there were some pubs in London which did not do the same beers as everywhere else. People scoffed, but we tried out the Happy Shopper lagers on offer and became quite enamored of the cooking lager: Ayingerbra[…]

There are lots of angles with which you can look at the sad news that Golden Wonder have gone into administration. You can hark back to nostalgia, when a bag of Golden Wonder were in every child’s lunchbox. You can suggest that the increase in […]