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…
BunnyChow at Shoreditch Box Park in East London
The Boxpark in Shoreditch is one of those places that might sound a bit naff but turns out to be a really clever idea. It is billed as a Pop Up Mall and is essentially a small shopping complex made out of stripped, refitted recycled shipping containers hence the name boxpark. It started life in 2011 and is…
Kappacasein – A Total Grilled Cheese Fest
This weekend I headed over to Borough Market to hunt down some essential and perhaps not so essential tasty morsels. Even before I left I knew exactly which stall I was going to be starting off at for that pre-shopping snack! That Stall of choice, was the Kappacasein stall, which as always was located right on the…
Pâté Moi – Mushroom Pate at the Borough market
It is not often that I get that excited about things that do not focus on Meat or bacon related products, but on occasion I take an exeption and one of those is the Pâté Moi, a Mushroom Pate that I found in London’s Borough Market. It is described as being “hand made with organic mushrooms from…
Leftover Snack inspired by Nigel Slater’s latest book “eat”
It is around this time of the year that the fridge is full of leftovers and we are trying to eat our way through the freezer so that we can restock with more farmers market goodies. I was rummaging around in the back of the fridge and found a solitary chorizo link and a rather…
The Flavour Thesaurus – Chicken and Bell Peppers
The Flavour Thesaurus by Nikki Segnit is one of the best books about food and cooking that I have purchased this year, and to judge whether that statement has any value perhaps I should mention I have bought more than 50 other cookbooks (so far). In essence it is not really a cookbook per se, no…
