Length: 4 mins My post today is pretty much a complete cop out, in that it’s a cut and paste job. But no less important for all that. Taken from an excellent piece… Read More »Stop using the supermarkets. “It’s the only way to be sure…”
Length: < 1 min No sniggering at the back of the class please… Make @TheFoodLab’s Cuban roast pork, and you’ll have a start on an awesome Cubano sandwich.
Length: 2 mins You did? Well thank you! Thank you for fucking up the country. The country that you claim to love and want to “take back”? (Take it back from whom by the way? Fucking leprechauns or Martians?) Thank you for bringing… Read More »So, did you vote to #Leave?
Length: < 1 min From the pages of the aforementioned deliciously wicked “Pornburger: Hot Buns and Juicy Beefcakes” via the beautifully diseased mind of chef Mathew Ramsey: come these two temptations: I’ll be undertaking this on the charcoal when the sun comes out again… And… Read More »Pork porn; one of which is a burger
Length: 4 mins The last part of the Suffolk run took us to Southwold and to the Adnams beer brewery & spirits distillery. They have these amazing copper stills, which seem to be perched, hovering in mid-air inside the brewery, used for their… Read More »Gin and things
Length: 2 mins Well done; you’ve made it through the marathon of the previous posts — so you may be pleased to hear that this is the last one of the “Chris & Val Go Wild On Holiday” set… One of the other… Read More »Tobias, knives, Tomb Houses & pigs. Part 3 of 3.
Length: 4 mins So, to the farm itself. We’d arrived mid-afternoon — on one of the last days of the festival — which meant that it wasn’t the maniacally busy place that the first few days apparently seem to be. Which also allowed… Read More »Tobias, knives, Tomb Houses & pigs. Part 2 of 2 (or 3 or 4).
Length: < 1 min If only because of their great, almost steam-punk influenced (and quite menacing) logo which I like. A lot… … the Unruly Pig looks like one to visit on the next trip into Suffolk. I want to work my way through… Read More »An unruly pig? Who knew they could be?
Length: 4 mins Health warning: This is likely to be quite a long post. So I may well stretch it out over a few separate ones, so as not to totally bore the pants off y’all. And whilst there’s a lot about pork… Read More »Tobias, knives, Tomb Houses & pigs. Part 1 of 2 (or 3).
Length: < 1 min I mentioned this great chef Matthew Ramsey, before, just over a year ago and finally his book, the result of a huge amount of work on his part, only some of which has been documented on his website, has arrived… Read More »Pornburger me…
Length: 2 mins So, exactly what shit just got serious? He, like thousands of other chefs & cooks & food writers, is taking up the cudgels for this campaign. And you should as well. Watch this video and then share the video. It’s… Read More »The mighty Richard H. Turner says “shit just got serious”
Length: < 1 min With a tip of the hat to Fergal Sharkey and accepting that this is the wrong internal organ, I’d kind of just assumed that people had stopped asking for pork chops with the kidney still attached — just as I remember them… Read More »“And a good heart, these days, is hard to find”
Length: < 1 min Regular readers will know that I’ve been thinking for a long time about my own business involving pork. In some form or another. But it’s a popular place to be. Lots of people have the same plans. So, maybe not… Read More »A van full of pork? You’re all talk…
Length: < 1 min Not quite local, I know. Bad me, especially after all my previous rants about only buying from butchers you know and trust in your immediate area, rather than from the rapacious supermarkets and how much carbon emission crap produced using… Read More »Shouldering the burden
Length: 6 mins “It was market-morning. The ground was covered, nearly ankle-deep, with filth and mire, and a thick steam, perpetually rising from the reeking bodies of the cattle, and mingling with the fog, which seemed to rest upon the chimney-tops, hung heavily… Read More »Butchers; Smithfield, Spitalfields & Borough Markets Part 1 of 3. Or maybe more. Who knows?
Length: < 1 min Today, I accompanied the wonderfully green-fingered Val Littlewood to a local garden centre where she bought some green plant things called, I’m reliably informed, “Sweet Williams”. Great for bees (like this Hairy Footed Flower one highlighted by Val in a… Read More »Green is the colour
Length: < 1 min Wildlife often flourishes in the interstitial contaminated areas left behind by both natural and man-made disaster; the population unchecked by normal human predation. Now in the dense forests surrounding Fukushima, the population of wild boars is exploding, having grown from 3,000… Read More »OK, so you’ve killed that radioactive boar? Now, WTF do you do with it?
Length: < 1 min Courtesy of some great work by the hugely talented Val Littlewood, I am now the proud possessor of this hand-painted Delft tile. Takes pride of place on my desk now.
Length: 5 mins And when asked, I have to answer “no”. If, like me, you’re lacking in more than a few of the skills necessary in, say, the building of your own house, re-assembling a dismantled car engine-block or trouble-shooting exactly why that rocket… Read More »The dreaded words: “are you any good at DIY”?
