Oh dahling! You are a symphony of aromas bringing my senses to harmony. A stew of sciences patiently simmered together. A lip smacking cream smeared all over my brains… You are a carefully focused spectrum of precision, a guided tour of passion, and a basket woven with love carrying a divine mosaic of toppings blended with choreographed troupe of herbs and stitched into an enticing quilt of flavours. You are MY food. I could eat you any day, every day and especially today! – That’s my breast, that’s my chicken!
While lurking on the streets of Berlin with Emma Svensson, we had a genius thought to go on our own pub crawl of Friedrichshain, a neighborhood in Berlin. Combing through tour books and getting advice from locals, we settled on five promising bars… The Berlin Pub Crawl article comes with a bonus video review!
With more pressure on our time than ever before, it is important that we allow technology to speed up the day-to-day tasks that are unavoidable. Well-prepared meals and delicious slow cooked recipes however, turn what was a teatime chore, into a simple culinary delight.
While Christmas for kids is about Santa, for dads it is the Hobgoblin that they look forward to, with his seasonal bundle of flavours for us all to enjoy. The Hobgoblin of Whychwood started to corrupt us at All Hallows Eve, with his little hatchet and pumpkin...
At your local Wetherspoon there is something interesting happening; a very small beer festival and a reasonable price. The beautiful editor of this magazine dragged me to the pub to try a few of them and this is what I thought...
Bishop’s Finger beer review - Bishop’s Finger is a wonderful mix of a beer, having tastes of spices, oranges and apricots with nutty and malty overtones. It’s as rich and wonderful as a Christmas pudding; indeed a warm Christmas pudding in a glass is a great way to describe this wonderful beer.
Another of Britain’s most wonderful and popular beers, made with the traditional Fuggles hops, maybe that is where the phrase Muggle was thought up too many Fuggles make a Muggle. Anyway back to the beer, Old Peculier is lovely rich, warm and fruity dark ale worthy of taking your time over to savour.
Get your aphrodisiacs for Valentine’s Day. This means you need to stock up on wine, fine chocolate liquor, Sambuca, then make Sangria or Chocolate Martinis, or just have shots - perfect for Valentine’s Day single’s party or to impress your Valentine date.
Brewer, Wychwood, a fantastic small brewery making handmade, unique beers fit for world leaders is the home of Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin beer performs an amazing trick, despite being stored chilled, it tastes warm and warms you once you drink it. It leaves a wonderful warm and spicy and tangy taste in the mouth. The overall Hobgoblin flavour combines chocolates, toffees, with citrus infusions along with a biscuit like undertaste. Made with Fuggles hops, which sounds like something from Harry Potter, Hobgoblin beer gets better every time you drink it.
Think mini-France, think superb food and fine wines, think regional recipes, great flavours, tasting and shopping! We had a French fun-filled weekend to look forward to at Earls Court London, and it indeed was great.
Quirky chocolate items that could make interesting gifts this season ...While searching for those fine chocolates we came across a few unique and fun chocolate items that intrigued us enough to photograph them… And just for fun, we thought we’d list them!