There is something really satisfying about synchronicity when cooking. It was the one thing that my Mum could usually pull off, the roast beef cooked, carved and served with veg and roast potatoes all at the same time (I know know the veg was on far […]

Indie Chicken
#4 Ken’s Fried Chicken, Albert Road, Southsea
For Southsea residents post-pub scran and name Ken are synonymous. Two Ken’s Kebabs outlets await the drunk and peckish in the town’s main imbibing quarters while satellite[…]

I once spent an enjoyable flight to the enjoyable New York City talking about my job to my seat neighbour. Uh-oh, I hear seasoned travelers say, but its okay: the guy was fascinated by my job as a drinks technician. He joined me in laughing at the at[…]

I became a fish eater last April, when I visited an old friend in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We were at the pub, and I was through with eating gobs of hummus and fafel to satiate my titanic vegetarian hunger. So I had some fish and chips. No great revelat[…]

Great British Crisps
Newish wheeze from Walkers – crisps purporting to replicate the taste of ‘great British dinners’, very suitable for pubs where drinkers are missing said great dinners. Though if my table ever holds a baked ham a[…]

Indie Chicken
(i’m such a bandwagon jumper (but also a fried chicken eater, so i couldn’t really turn down liz’s offer to join in))
#3 Favourite Chicken and Ribs, High Road, N15.
The problem with my journey back from the pub to my n[…]

How to Be a Domestic Goddess
or
Diary of a Frustrated Girlfriend
I was sans bloke (due to a stag thing in Exeter) last weekend, and naturally I turned to baking as a displacement activity. It beats crying into your pint, eh ladies?
Getting up bright[…]

Noted on the side of Del Monte Pure Orange Juice:
Del Monte: The Healthy Way To Five A Day
Obsessed as I am to easy ways to five a day, this took me back a touch. Is it suggesting that there is an unhealthy way to five a day? Reading further it sugg[…]

Generosandwich, I think I sorta maybe love you, well maybe ‘love’ isn’t the right word… — so today I thought I would wander over to the maximegamall to see if what I was looking for was in stock at a Best Buy (it wasn&#8[…]

When a wineglass that has stayed overnight with a few drops of wine in it is filled with water, the smell of rose emerges.[…]