I love a good potsticker but I had never tried to cook them myself so this week when the desire to consume a large plateful became all too much I just had to make the effort to produce a panful. So where did the inspiration come from? It came from two places first from the…
Easy One Pot – Slow-Cooked, Five-Spiced pork with snap peas inspiration from Fine Cooking Magazine
Every so often I pick up a gem of a recipe from my ever expanding collection of food magazines and cookbooks. This one is for a Slow-Cooker Five-Spice Pork with Snap Peas (by Julissa Roberts from Fine Cooking). I had picked up a copy of Fine Cooking Magazine (the Winter Classics edition) while waiting in the departure lounge…
The ‘Gumbo Shop’ Gumbo – New Orleans inspired fare
This weekend we made Chicken Andouille Gumbo inspired from a trip to New Orleans. The recipe is based on one from the “The Gumbo Shop“, in New Orleans CHICKEN ANDOUILLE GUMBO – 8.50 “Boneless chicken, Andouille (a Cajun Sausage), okra and seasonings simmered in chicken stock – Selected by locals as the best Gumbo in the…
Clover Grill – For Breakfast on Bourbon Street, any time any day
Clover Grill at the end of Bourbon Street at Romaine is the sort of establishment that you should aim to find yourself at the end of a long night spent enjoying the delights of Bourbon Street, or at the start of a long night. Perhaps both? In a somewhat fragile state we were well…
Johnny’s PoBoys – Time for a Shrimp PoBoy!
Johnny’s Po-Boys has been in the French Quarter at 511 St. Louis Street since 1950, they started out as a grocery store and sandwich shop on Chartres, but as the Quarter grew th,ey moved where the people needed them. I came here just looking for a simple (or not so simple) Shrimp Poboy or maybe perhaps a tasty…
The Central Grocery – A Visit to the “Home of the Original Muffuletta Sandwich”
Located on Decauteur just across the street from Café du Monde and the French Market, the Central Grocery in the French Quarter district of New Orleans is renowned for it’s Muffuletta Sandwich and is famed as the ‘Home of the Orginal Muffeletta’ The Muffuletta was supposedly invented by Italian immigrant, Signor Lupo Salvatore in 1906. He was…
My Favourite recipes “Chorizo and Butter Bean Stew” from ‘Sausage and Mash’ by Fiona Beckett
I have had this ‘Sausage and Mash’ book by Fiona Beckett for ages. It contains one of my favourite go to recipes which is a Chorizo and Butter Bean stew. When I first bought the book and used the recipe chorizo was not as much in your face as it seems to be these days. At the…
Cafe Caribbean at Spitalfield Market
Café Caribbean in old Spitalfields market is the sort of place that you hope to find when hunting for lunch. The counter is filled with a whole plethora of delicious looking vats of Caribbean food. It looks homemade and authentic, it IS homemade and authentic, and in the end it tasted homemade and authentic. Their website tells…
The Ginger Pig – A Sausage Roll recommendation followed by Chops and Bacon
The Ginger Pig has six butchers shop across London all supplied from their North Yorkshire farm land. Tim Wilson says on their website that “At the heart of everything we do is good animal husbandry and welfare; livestock that is looked after well in the field will simply taste better on the plate”. That is…
Boston Sausage at Borough Market – Super Sausage Burgers
Boston Sausage have been trading at London’s Borough Market since 2007 and can be found there six days a week. Their hot food stand where they serve up a choice of sausage baps and burgers is in the Green Market right next to the Southwark Cathedral grounds. It gets pretty busy later in the day down…
My Food Hunt 