This is the first of ten posts on possible food pairings for the films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. If a sensuous lily white mound, speckled by with dark vanilla seeds and smothered by a tide of darkness doesn’t make you think of Black Swan, maybe the wings of dark chocolate will […]
Oscars festival
Not everything works out the way you want it to. Just ask George Clooney. I was really hoping that our chocolate souffles would go way up up up in the air on Oscar night. But sometimes a little bit of height is all you need. The excitement of smashing through more than 200 grams of […]
Let’s be honest; Carey Mulligan doesn’t look like she eats a lot of any kind of pudding-but when you’re looking for classic white-bread conservative English fare; bread and butter pudding is pretty much where you end up. This is the easiest version I know. Take a pannetone that’s left over from Christmas. Slice it and […]
I’m guessing that most of our guests were pretty relieved that we chose to go the ‘prawn’ route, rather than their preferred delicacy of catfood for District Nine. A risotto is perfect for a crowd, and with a couple of semi cheats along the way, the kind of thing that you can 3/4 cook in […]
One of the lesser talked about nominees for Best Picture, and one which, without prior knowledge of the story of Job- one where some of the nuances were lost on us. It just felt a little, undercooked to me. But you can read a much more insightful take on it by the very clever Alice […]