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Smoked salmon, basil and courgette rustic tart

02:56 AM, May 8, 2012 |

apple, feeding a crowd, french, goat cheese, In the kitchen, salad, starters

Sometimes when I’m on my own I eat cherry tomatoes with a sprinkle of salt and a glass of pink wine for dinner. Sometimes I’m sensible, follow my own advice and turn to one of my ‘cooking for one’s recipes – most often the sea bass with green beans and burnt butter and almonds or miso salmon with zucchini noodles. And sometimes I just don’t bother to eat at all.

Then there are the times that I take advantage of the fact The Hungry One is gone and I sneak into the house things that make his face wrinkle in displeasure. Chief on that list is smoked salmon. I’m not sure …

Chorizo Tamales (take me away)

02:52 AM, May 5, 2012 |

chorizo

There are some weeks when you want to run away to here more than others. Bureaucracy can do it. So can the etiquette of group emails, stubbing your toes, weeks of drenching rain, ripping the zip on your favourite boots and just a general dose of mild disappointment. There are nights when a glass of pink wine wine doesn’t cut it. Not even a carafe of ballsy red will do. It’s time for a margarita. I like the sting from the salt on the rim. I like it when the tequila is so cold it gives you an ice cream headache that makes you grimace. There aren’t any trips back to Mexico on …

Dark chocolate passion fruit puddings – Star Wars

02:09 AM, May 4, 2012 |

Oscars festival

The film:

The dish:

The reason:

Warning: these puddings can lure you to the dark side. We all know a Jedi’s strength flows from the force. You won’t find tat many midi-chlorians in these soft centred puddings (more 85% cocoa solids dark chocolate, butter, eggs, flour and a touch of sugar), but you can be sure that they’re destructively good.

As the ‘Sith Code’ obeyed by Darth Vader et al. tells us:

“Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me.”

(Found here, a place where much bigger Star Wars geeks than me hang …