Pesto Although I’ve made pesto many times before, I’ve generally haphazardly chucked the ingredients into the food processor and left it to chance. Despite the results usually being good, I thought it was about time I consulted the mama of authentic Italian home cooking, Marcella Hazan and see if she had an angle on this […]
Entries from August 2010
In Search of…the Perfect Pasta Sauce No 4
August 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: cheese · Main Course · pasta · Vegetarian
Travels: Marie Celeste Ward, Whitechapel
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments
A belated thanks to all the staff at the Marie Celeste Maternity Ward, The Royal London Hospital. In these dangerous Cameron days it’s important to fight privatisation and commercialisation and support the NHS. View all images
Tags: Stuff
Lemon Thyme Cake
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment
I’d never made a lemon cake before and we have thyme aplenty on the balcony so how about a lemon thyme cake as featured in the Observer mag a few weeks ago? Oh and the cake master herself was coming to visit Yumblog Junior, perhaps I could show off my culinary skills – she’s tasted […]
Tags: Baking · Cake · Vegetarian
Friet? T-Shirt
August 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Inspired by a trip to the Brugge Chip Museum. Please exit through the giftshop
Tags: Uncategorized
Yumblog Celebrates 100 Days of the BIG SOCIETY
August 18th, 2010 · No Comments
If you had any doubts about the half-arsed nature of Dandruff Dave’s BIG SOCIETY, visit the official website.
Tags: Stuff · Vegetarian
Baked Cod* with Prawns, Tomato & Butter Beans
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments
A recent trawling of the recipe archive of the excellent Australian Gourmet Traveller Magazine website, produced among other things, this simple ‘one-pot’ fish dish. Instead of cod we opted to use the (considerably) cheaper and (coincidentally) sustainable whiting and spend the money we saved on an impressive quantity of prawns.
Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood
Shakshuka
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments
There are some recipes you can taste just by reading them. This was one such recipe and it read delicious.
Tags: Brunch · Eggs · Main Course · Vegetarian
Ribbit Rabbit Robot
August 10th, 2010 · No Comments
You bought the T-Shirt in your thousands, so why not buy the book too and bring alphabeticalised joy to the child in your life. Buy this book | …or make your own
Tags: Book
Raspberry Flapjack
August 9th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Bored with biscuits out of off of the cupboard? Want to eat a flapjack that will taste nothing like the dense sugar marathons that you can get in packets labelled ‘Mrs Futtocks’ home-baked country goodness treats’? Have you a spare half hour? I have the answer.
Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Vegetarian
Chocolate & Honey Meringue
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
In our new guise as parents we have entered a world where being invited to someone’s house for lunch doesn’t necessarily mean that you will be leaving at midnight having drunk the Rhone valley dry. It’s novel and despite our underlying fatigue, sensible drinking on a weekend still seems inherently wrong. So we had been […]
Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Chocolate · Vegetarian
Jme’s Double Chocolate Biscuit
August 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
In the lull between milk extraction and nappy changing I remembered the vast amounts of 85% plain chocolate I had bought and sought to put some of it to work. I was looking for a chocolate biscuit with a melty bit as I’d never made one before and none of my books could help. A […]
Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Chocolate · Vegetarian
Gremolata Poached Tuna & Bean Salad
August 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments
As soon as I saw this recipe with it’s unusual ‘Boil in the Bag’ cooking technique, I knew I had to take it to our experimental kitchen here at Yumblog Towers and see if it was worthy of a place on the menu of our amusingly post-modern and knowingly ironic restaurant ‘The Yummy Duck’.
Tags: Fish · Main Course · unusual foods
Garlic & Rosemary Prawns with Butter Beans
August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
In theory you could arrive home from work after an exhausting day Ice Road Trucking, and 10 minutes later be sitting at the dining table sipping a chilled white Rioja and tucking into this tasty treat… quicker than it takes to microwave a bowl of Batchelors UnSavoury Rice.
Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood