Protos Verdijo 2012 by M. Kuehn
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a source of this wine in the UK, but if you are ever in Spain I would buy a case of this young wine -citrusy, full bodied and just a lovely mouthful. Exel wines in Scotland … Read More
Halloumi Cream Dip by M. Kuehn
The very gracious manager of Antipliler on Green Lanes gave me the method for making this. I’d never heard of this dish so was pretty excited to try it out. It didn’t come out as well as the version I … Read More
Coriander and Lemon Hummus by M. Kuehn
So, the next few blogs are going to concern themselves with making life easier at Xmas. In other words, cheating. So many people get stressed to hell over the ‘festivites’. If you can make life a little easier why the … Read More
Café O’Porto, Goldborne Road by Michael R. Goss
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The Café O’Porto has been an institution in the Ladbroke Grove area for decades, opened up by an earlier generation of Portuguese immigrants escaping the dictatorship of Salazar and settling around Notting Hill before its gentrification. All those years later they … Read More
Mozzarella and Cheddar Cakes by M. Kuehn
We’ve been selling our potato cakes like er, hot cakes in the cafe. So, I decided to experiment with some ingredients and see what came up. The result – a very tasty, crunchy on the outside and gooey on the … Read More
Jerk Spice by M. Kuehn
If you don’t have a spice grinder then you can use a processor – if you’re a virgin grinder, the aroma will hit you like a train when you open it. Instead of Scotch bonnet chilies I have substituted red … Read More
Chimichurri Sauce by M. Kuehn
What a difference a sauce can make to pep up a steak or a piece of chicken and there’s nothing simpler than shoving everything into a food processor and voila, thirty seconds later you have a shiny, bright green thing … Read More
Toasted sourdough with beetroot hummus, walnut pesto and goat’s cheese by Zina Manda
When you sink your nashers into this these ambrosial tartines, the taste sensation is something to behold. Crunchy, soft, salty, tart, creamy yumminess all rolled into one. This was the first time I had married beetroot with hummus and substituted … Read More