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'Easy' One Crust Cherry Pie
Choosing a favourite fruit rather feels like choosing a favourite child - is it the first bite of a crisp russet in October; a juicy Clementine at Christmas; a slice of watermelon on a summer's...
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Lenos & Carbon, Elephant and Castle
Columbia has featured quite prominently in the news recently - well, certainly if you've paid any interest to the small soccerball tournament that's just finished in Brazil. Firstly there was the 20...
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Fox and Hounds, Christmas Common
Like Orwell, I frequently muse about what makes a pub perfect - as can be seen in my previous ramblings on the Royal Standard of England in Knotty Green, having recently enjoyed another lovely lunch...
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Love and War, London Style
One of the many things I love about being English is the juxtaposition. Take our famed obsession with the changeable climate. I don't suppose many people in Oman or Quito or Corfu greet their...
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Village Mangal, Amersham
Amersham, the start of the commuter belt, a town thrumming with the gentle bubble of suburban life and the joys (and despair) of nothing in particular. Amersham, the end of the Metropolitan Line,...
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Summer Cake with Apricots, Almonds and Raspberries
A bit of late summer foraging always puts me in mind of the words of the wonderful Seamus Heaney:Blackberry Picking Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen....
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'Noodle Bar', Leicester Square (and some Unbirthday Cake)
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. Lewis Carroll A couple of weeks ago, as a precursor to Stealth's...
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Pizza (and Proms) - Homeslice, Covent Garden
While I’m not a huge one for life-affirming mantras, or ‘inspiring’ memes on Instagram, one lesson – taught to me by Madonna at the end of the Human Nature video – I like to live by is ‘absolutely no...
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Bermondsey Beer Mile
Thankfully, given my unfailing ability to overlook the finer details, I’ve never been much of a completionist. Throughout my life I’ve left a wake of unfinished collections – from baseball cards to...
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Castle Kebab, Elephant and Castle
Alongside her love of noodle soup, Stealth’s favourite food remains a Turkish/ 'Lesbian'ese hybrid - although I haven't known her to turn down much that's edible, in all honesty. This is borne of two...
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Bump Caves and Bocadillos
With a recent long, late summer's weekend stretching out in front of us it seemed the perfect chance to completely the final piece of the beer puzzle on the Bermondsey Mile - as well as the chance to...
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#crabandicecreamchallenge
In a change from my usual default horizontal mode things have gone a bit crazy bonkers recently; lots of work stuff, plenty of friend stuff, some family stuff and an allotment that is hemorrhaging...
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Sambal Kitchen and Diner
A few weeks ago the Ewing and I were tasked with picking up a parcel from Gerrards Cross. Not wanting to schlep all the way over to ‘mini Hollywood’ – Wikipedia’s words, certainly not mine - for...
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Eastern Sunday
I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other. Most people have rather lofty, or at least exciting, ambitions and ideas; if...
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Brick Lane, Curry Again
When it comes to Sunday dinner there are three choices I favour. The good old roast, when you’re feeling traditional; a barbecue when it’s too hot to contemplate lashings of gravy and Yorkshire pud;...
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Say Cheese! (and some crackers)
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of...
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Birthday Golf @ Swingers
I'm feeling pretty excited right now, as in less than 12 hours I'll be saying sayonara to these shores for a trip to the land of the Rising Sun, and by the time you read this I'll hopefully be necking...
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The Living Daylights
In a slight diversion from the usual food and drink based-shenanigans. I'm taking a time out to take Pies and Fries on location. Most avid readers of the blog (hi again, Mum and Mrs P) will no doubt...
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Using My Noodle, Japanese Style
Any trip to Japan wouldn’t be complete without an obligatory boiled bone and carb-fest, and with over 4,000 ramen shops in Tokyo alone I knew we wouldn't be short of choice. Add in udon, soba and even...
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Japanese Junk
One of the best things about travel is that the rule book goes out the window. 5am pint at the airport? Bloody marys on the plane? Half a giant packet of strangely flavoured crisps, bowls of spicy...
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