Category: comida / food
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Mr. Porky’s…”high in protein”! 😂
Hmmm…such tasty protein. Seasoned pork rinds ingredients: – pork rind – pork fat – salt – monosodium glutamate – hydrolysed soya protein. Yummmmm. – rusk contains wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin, salt – dextrose Yummmmm. Hydrolysed soya protein. 🤤🤤
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Citrus cake, take 2
Texture is muuuch better. It needs the full 40 mins. Also being on the bottom oven shelf. It’s a little burned on top, so temperature maybe needs to be 165° instead of 180°.
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Mixing cooked rice
Beef bulgogi bibimbap for dinner, one evening in Nagomi Cheltenham. Bibimbap, Korean: 비빔밥. The term bibim means “mixing” and bap is cooked rice.
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RIP Ciarán the colander
I’d like to notify you of the death of my good friend and kitchen colleague, Ciarán the colander. I first met Ciarán in Ikea, Dublin, about 15 years ago. He moved in with us and became a great asset to our kitchen. He then moved with us to London, and spent many years assisting us…
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Ensaimada de sobrasada
A Mallorquín pastry – pastry with sobrasada (a meat sausage with pimienta, strong flavour like fuet, nudja) topped with sugar. Strong, but tasty with a coffee. Normally eaten on a celebration day.
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Calçotada
The most traditional way of eating calçots is at a calçotada – an annual gastronomical celebration held between November and April. Calçots are grilled until charred, wrapped in newspaper to steam, then consumed by peeling off the charred skin and dipping the white portion in salvitxada or romesco sauce. The green tops are discarded. The…
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Korean seaweed omelette with sea spaghetti
I bought some tinned “fresh” (🤔) Galician seaweed a while ago, espagueti del Mar (spaghetti of the sea). It’s scientific name seems to be Himanthalia Elongata. I wanted to use it up so I tried a Korean seaweed omelette recipe. The recipe calls for Nori (edible seaweed sheets used for making sushi and onigiri) but…
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Homemade banana bread muffins
I had too much 🍌 🍞 dough so I poured the leftover into some bun trays. And voilà, made-up muffins. Iteration 1. Time to do usability testing, evaluate and iterate.
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The Eagle, Farringdon Road
If I won the lottery, and had £3 Million quid, I’d buy the Eagle, not change a thing, reserve a table for myself every night and eat a bife Ana sandwich every day. God bless them.
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Camins del Priorat 2016
Es un buen vino. It’s not the best of the years, but to make this find where we did, was alegría. I had the pleasure of a tasting of Palacios’ wines in Berry Brus Y Rudd a few years ago given by Mr. Palacios himself. I knew liked him for a reason, he’s another Sanferminero…
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Casa Manteca, que te cagas
Mojama de atún, chicharrones, y una cerveza en Casa Manteca (Calle Corralón de los Carros nº 66, Barrio La Viña), vino Garum 2016, y vino Quadis de Cadiz.
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Om ñom halloumi salad
Ingredients: Little gem lettuce Some greens (take your pick) As fresh as possible halloumi cheese (no mint) Grated carrot Sweet corn Ventresca tuna Red onion Nocerella olives Lashings of extra virgin olive oil Lashings of thick balsamic vinegar concentrate (get it from the olive oil man in Broadway Market) Glass of red 🍷 to taste
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Al Shami for dinner
The “original” Damascan restaurant in Dubai, Al Shami on Al Muraqqabat Road,Al Muraqqabat Area
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RIP Billy Bunters Burger Shack
Billy Bunter’s Burger Shack burned down a few months ago. It no longer exists. RIP.