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Tomme Crayeuse (Cheesy Lover #29)
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Cheese stats: Soft-ish raw cows milk cheese from the alpine patches of Franch
Bought from: Mons
This rind’s ochre, orange and white, bumpy and mottled, with specks of a bright yellow mould. Inside the cheese is a pale cream colour – crumb[…]

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Stawley & Harbourne Blue (cheesy lovers #27 & #28)
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Stawley
Cheese stats: Small round of goats cheese, bought from Neals Yard Dairy[1]
The stawley has a creamy yellow and white white wrinkled rind. A sticky, translucent layer lies just below the rind, and the cheese becomes a denser, opaque white towa[…]

Swallet & Cardo (Cheesy Lover #25 and #26)
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Swallet: a raw soft ewe’s milk cheese from Cumbria, bought from Neal’s Yard Dairy
The swallet has a wrinkled rind, and is a rich cream colour underneath a faint white bloom. Tiny patches of blue-gray mould are scattered across it. Directl[…]

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Vacherin Fribourgeois Crepi (Cheesy Lover #24)
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Cheese stats: Raw cow’s milk, semi-hard cheese from Switzerland, bought from KäseSwiss
This cheese has a dark, crumbly, dusty grey rind, and contrasting pale creamy yellow interior.
The inside of this cheese is BEEFY – a huge blast of um[…]

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Lunch with Katie (Cheesy Lovers 20 – 23)
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I met up with Katie for a cheesy Friday Borough Market lunch-and-review the other week.

This is our lunch! Clockwise from the top left you have salty ricotta, Raschera, St Denis and Roquefort.
Raschera
Mostly cow, with a bit of sheep, Italian, from […]

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In the Chips
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Posh chips.

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sugar-spiced salmon, prawn-and-potato cakes, VERY QUICK TO MAKE
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(full menu: prawn-and-potato cakes, sugar-spiced salmon with “chinese” hot mustard, roast courgettes, sauteed leaks in balsamic vinegar)
(raspberries and chocolate cake and cream to follow)
The ask here was an easy-to-chew-and-swallow FA[…]

Love chicken? Love waffles?
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Eat At Wally’s!!!
Oh dere lord, but I want to move to Akron, Ohio RIGHT NOW. I can feel my arteries hardening just reading that review:
I could eat that crispy coating and chicken skin all day for the rest of my life. Adding sickeningly sweet […]

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The Secret Of Abba – SQUEEZ BACON
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As deliberate foodologists we cannot wait for the arrival of SQUEEZ BACON in the UK. The difficulty of proper bacon, however well cured, is its intractability when it comes to being spreadable, and the difficulty in writing your name with it. As we a[…]

Format swap: Heston’s Feasts versus Big Cook Little Cook
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I’ve noticed many people saying the only thing wrong about the crazy world of the Heston’s Feasts series has been the celeb diners making their inane comments. So yes, the format is great — a talented man’s fabulous cooking in[…]

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