Observations on the world and its inhabitants
It sits there on the supermarket shelf, a perfectly unassuming white plastic tub. You buy it weekly without a second thought, perhaps paying a premium for the thick, dense Greek style you favour, accepting the cost as just another line on the grocery bill. If you’re not a yoghurt person, move on swiftly. But what ...
A month or so after their breakfast discourse on love, Walker found himself in the passenger lift of Tarek’s building, invited to dinner. He was ascending to the domain of a man who believed in the tangible virtues of a well-calibrated life. The secure parking, accessed with a precise code and monitored by Tarek’s remote ...
I can fully expect to be most hated and called various names for this article. Flick through any social media feed on a Friday night and you’ll be met with a familiar sight: artfully arranged plates of food, clinking glasses, and grinning faces bathed in the warm glow of a trendy restaurant. Here in the ...
“What!” you exclaim. 😂 I’ll explain. I read from internet sources that it’s not a good idea to keep eggs in trays on fridge doors. The warning is about the temperature of eggs fluctuating and going too high, so that they aren’t cooled enough to prolong shelf life. In fact some sources say it’s dangerous. ...
I’ve been searching for the last 5 years for an economical very small microwave oven. This is something I could use when working out of hotels. Well, I gave up on the search. But not easily. I even explored trying to build with my own hands, a small microwave by taking component parts from second ...
So, you all scoffed. You sneered. You laughed, pointed fingers and snorted with derision about the many failures in my quest to conquer the impossible: microwaving an egg without it exploding like a miniature culinary grenade. “It can’t be done!” you declared, between guffaws. You sneered, “You’ll end up with scrambled egg on the ceiling!” ...
A couple days ago, someone suggested that I get out over the bank holiday weekend to a local restaurant. Calm down – they weren’t inviting me out or hinting at an invitation. They suggested I get a nice steak. I said, “No way. The restaurant would charge me about £20 for the same meal I ...
This is no joke. I’ve been looking for a particular brand and taste of chocolate milk for 50 years. And now I’ve found it. When I was a young child I used to enjoy it cold, in cans labelled C-CMEL. After searching intermittently for years, I could not find it anywhere on the net. So ...
In short don’t mess with The Captain’s time and money! And don’t expect him to just roll over, sulk and not return. See TripAdvisor report or not – it’s a very long one and contains extreme detail. Your cure for insomnia perhaps.
How strange and how nasty – some may have thought. Why would anybody want to do that? How revolting – right? Of course when you think of spitting, large hunks of spit being hurled comes to mind – and spitting on anyone even by accidentally sputtering on them whilst talking is far from nice. Most ...
This has meat in it. But it could be made without. That’s rice noodles amongst, Shitake mushrooms, sliced celery, fried onions, sliced cabbage. Yes it’s something Chinese but I don’t know what they call it. Not important to me, anyway. For those who need to find a name, full marks to you for finding it ...
Probably two to three years ago I had finally gotten out of my zone of comfort about eating oysters. No – you don’t eat the shell. When I was in Brighton I recall, I had tried one or two. They had a ‘different’ sort of metallic taste. I wasn’t put off by that. As time ...
Yesterday I went to a famous restaurant in my home town. It wasn’t very expensive – and in any case I chose to afford their prices. So, what’s the fuss this time – you’re probably wondering. That’s one wine glass with wine in it at extreme left (though you see two glasses – it’s a ...
The Cap has interrupted his busy schedule to give his seal of approval to Burger & Lobster! The pictures speak a millions words but I have to add a few. The Cap visited B & L in Farringdon on 26th March 2013, for the first time. He had the regular Lobster meal for £20. ...
I’m giving a few simple tips on making your cooked food last longer. Well no, you can’t eat it and have it – and this is not about eating more slowly. The short message is avoid as much as possible getting human spit or germs into your food. I’m not in the business of providing ...
No – this ain’t a recipe for it. This is about the service surrounding it. It’s a long one. I’ve taken several weeks drafting this (working on average a few minutes each week). It is such a difficult story that I could not put it down all at once. I really had to do it ...
