I’ve been a mild Japanophile since I was a teenager. The best games of the time came from Japan; you had to import them at extortionate prices. As such we pored over every detail and absorbed a lot of Japanese along the way. I took a Japanese module at university to bolster this further, reading James Clavell’s Asian Saga along […]
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Some of the best meals come when your hands are tied; everyone’s hungry and you just have to work with what you’ve got. I had this recently whilst on holiday at Center Parcs Elveden Forest. Worn out from trekking, swimming and climbing, the troops needed fuel! We’ve been to this village several times over the years and never failed to […]
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Ox cheek can be an acquired taste. A great big slab of meat that can be quite irony and offally. Someone that doesn’t need convincing is our Kavey, who can wax on the subject for hundreds of words. If you haven’t joined the army of converts, maybe this sous vide ox cheek recipe will change your mind.
Read moreLet’s get this out of the way: this is an inauthentic beef pho. It’s beef and noodles in a strong broth of Asian flavours. But pho tells you the general direction we’re heading in for this one. So why this dish? Well not only is a great way to use up leftovers (in this instance, specifically roast beef) but it […]
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