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Radish Salad: A simple supper and doing fewer restaurant posts

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Radish and goats cheese salad

You may have noticed a drop in the number of restaurants posts I’m writing. From a bit of a deluge in October and November last year to just three so far in 2011. Partly this is down to eating out less as I try to breathe life back into my battered body and bank account. But it’s not just that. I’m suffering from restaurant fatigue.

This is more in the bloggy rather than the eating sense, but not totally. Making mental notes about the food, thinking about the best camera shot and worse of all, choosing dishes to fit what I want to write. It’s all got in way of simply enjoying the food. Continue reading →

Pear stilton and hazelnut salad

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Pear, stilton and hazelnut salad

A salad may not be the first thing that comes to mind when gloweringly grey skies close in and rain starts plopping down. But bear with me here, because this salad is no wishy-washy, lighter-than-light, sunny day food. No sir.

There are pears (more of the buggers from the tree), nuts, and – the not-very-secret weapon that makes this a great autumnal dish – great creamy lumps of gooey blue-veined stilton. All smooth and strong with a hint of sharpness, the James Bond of the cheese world. Continue reading →

3 courses for £12? A grand deal at The Little Bay

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Hello there! It’s me, Catty! While Aaron’s busy honeymooning around Japan (me? jealous? NEVER!), we’ve hi-jacked his blog so that you don’t go hungry, and we’ll continue to post on his behalf, keeping them gastronomous eyes of yours well fed!

I thought I’d share with you all something a little special to Aaron and I. I went to The Little Bay Restaurant back in March this year. I hadn’t even met Aaron at the time and when he saw I’d tweeted that I was going, he responded and said I absolutely had to, HAD TO, have the pig’s cheek. And much to the disgust of my near-vegetarian colleague, I did have the pig’s cheek and boy was it awesome.
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Cauliflower & potato cheese

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Cauliflower and potato cheese

Sometimes, when faced with a big white ball of a cauliflower I’m stumped. It’s one of the few vegetables that I can’t think of something to do straight away. Then I remember cauliflower cheese and all is okay with the world again.

Along with spicy curry, this is the best – and certainly most comforting – way to cook cauliflower. If you do it well, thick and cheesy with a bit of bite, then it can be extraordinarily good. Continue reading →

Saag Paneer and Okra curries

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Saag Paneer

I’ve made Paneer before, when I lived in Islington where I could get hold of cheese cloth. But now, you would have thought the whole of North Lonon had run out of muslin. How annoying. Ever since I found out how easy it is to make Paneer it seems to be a waste to buy it. As Londis did have paneer, even if it failed miserably in the muslin stakes, shop bought would have to do. Continue reading →