Lamb Shoulder with Wilted Spinach, New Potatoes Carrots and Redcurrant Sauce

Another tasty and easy recipe from BBC Good Food here. The recipe itself calls for loin of lamb, however unfortunately we couldn't find any at short notice, and our local butchers had shop. This dish is probably the closest I've gotten to a proper English roast, and I was pretty surprised how it came out. The… Continue reading Lamb Shoulder with Wilted Spinach, New Potatoes Carrots and Redcurrant Sauce

Icelandic Baked Cod – Bakaðri Þorski

This was a great recipe I found recently and tried out for the first time a coupe of days ago. As we've been watching Vikings again recently, we figured we'd have something Scandanavian inspired, but not the usual salmon I often do. A bit of searching later and we had this - Icelandic Baked Cod… Continue reading Icelandic Baked Cod – Bakaðri Þorski

My First Meal in Japan

x-post from The Japanese Food Blog Sometime on that rainy Wednesday afternoon I arrived in Japan and made my way across Tokyo to my hostel, somewhere North of Ueno. I immediately trundled to the other other side of Tokyo and spent a couple of hours in Shibuya. Unfortunately, jet lag hit me pretty hard, and… Continue reading My First Meal in Japan

Boqueria Tapas, Brixton

Boqueria in Brixton seemed almost misplaced by the time we had found it. It wasn’t near the station, or in those areas of Brixton currently undergoing gentrification. When we entered, the place almost seemed as if it wasn’t open. The bar area was small, with no customers in sight. However, behind the bar, the restaurant… Continue reading Boqueria Tapas, Brixton

Dmitiri’s at The Plough

The Plough is a centuries old pub back in my tiny home village of Trottiscliffe, in the middle of nowhere in rural South East England. This pub, for as long as I can remember, has been the more local of the village’s two pubs, and also as long as long as I can remember, absolutely… Continue reading Dmitiri’s at The Plough