3 pepper pasta with chorizo. Serves 4. This is something I cook quite a lot – it’s easy to vary the ingredients a bit, depending on what I have in the cupboard and who I’m cooking for. I suspect this will make a lot of the more serious cooks on my friends list cringe, as [...]
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Enticement To Shop
February 14th, 2009 No Comments
My office is not the best lit room in the world. The window is small, the view is onto a gap between two buildings, and these days, there’s a sodding great iMac blocking the lower half of it. What this means is that if a I want to read a book off my desk, I [...]
Tags: sheappin'
To Justify God’s Ways To Man
April 8th, 2008 No Comments
Topic: “Alasdair!” I hear you cry, “What happened to your minimum of 800 words a week plan?” Fear not, I haven’t forgotten, it’s just that I wrote this lot, a basic summary of supermarket whiskies, for the excellent food and drink blog Very Good Taste, and wanted to give them a chance to run it [...]
Malt Does More Than Milton Can
March 14th, 2008 No Comments
Topic: Hugh Hancock asks What’s So Good About Whisky, Then? “I like the little things. The way a glass feels in your hand, a good glass – thick, with a heavy base. I love the sound an ice cube makes when you drop it from just the right height. Too high, and it will chip [...]
Tags: Food And Drink · opinion · Whisky
Two Hundred Quid?
February 29th, 2008 No Comments
Topic: Hugh Hancock amongst other suggestions, gave me this one: “I’d never pay 200 quid for a meal. Discuss.” I’ll state my position from the off: I have already paid over 200 quid for a meal. Twice. I hope to do it many times more. Having had three-Michelin-star food once, I want to do it [...]
Tags: fat duck · Food And Drink · opinion
