While I’m a self-confessed expert on the subject of potatoes, there’s another carbohydrate I’m fairly clueless on: noodles. I know about the dried egg ones from Sharwoods, the soft ones from Amoy, and I’m aware there’s such a thing as flat ribbon noodles, Udon (the chunky ones) and soba. Beyond that my knowledge is really sketchy. Enter noodle pro MiMi […]
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I love reading In Search of Heston’s recipes. United by our passion for all things Blumenthal-flavoured, he goes the whole hog in attempting to recreate Heston’s entire recipe index. And he really pushes the boat out to make them as accurately to the original text as possible. One of his recent posts was Heston’s fish pie. I’ve kind-of blogged about this […]
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It’s my biggest giveaway ever: win a fridge freezer! This Zanussi fridge freezer worth over £300 could be yours courtesy of Argos! As you would expect Argos have a massive range of Zanussi fridge freezers and this model is packed with all the essentials: three shelves in the fridge compartment and a slidey salad drawer, three drawers in the freezer and […]
Read moreFifty Ways With Spuds It’s been a whirlwind few weeks at Big Spud towers. About a month ago I self-published my first ebook, and would-you-believe-it, it’s all about potatoes. Fifty Ways With Spuds features fifty recipes (no!) of marvellous things you can do with potatoes. Five lovely people have given it 5 stars. It’s available on Amazon now. Noodle! While we’re talking […]
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