The last knockings of 2023 are upon us and we find ourselves glamping in beautiful Northumberland. It’s freezing and the wind is blowing the rain sideways, but we are having great time and looking forward to seeing in the new year by watching the nearby Allendale Fire Festival where 45 brave (foolhardy?) men each carryContinue reading “Glamping Adventures in Northumberland: Fires, Food, and Fun”
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Mastering Asado: A Complete Guide to Short Ribs
I realise that having a blog and writing about all the food one has cooked inevitably sounds like blowing one’s trumpet. This week I cooked something so delicious my trumpet blowing is going to sound like when Han, Luke and Chewie got their medals from Leia Over a period of about 5 and a half hours,Continue reading “Mastering Asado: A Complete Guide to Short Ribs”
Fish Friday
Happy new year! Friday night is usually a fairly low-key night in for us, but the week before Christmas Polly invited a couple of mates round and ordered a box of delights from Pesky Fish. If you’ve not come across them, they are a business which aims to cut out the middle man between theContinue reading “Fish Friday”
Getting started on your Live Fire journey
Last month it was my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We had a family get-together in their beautiful garden; my brother supplied the booze and Polly and I did the catering. It was great fun and, even if I say so myself, the food turned out brilliantly. As I was cooking, I got a couple ofContinue reading “Getting started on your Live Fire journey”
Thermometers
Pretty much everywhere you look, the accepted wisdom of the BBQ/Live Fire/Meat Cookery world is that a way of finding out the internal temperature of what you are cooking is a must. There are 2 main reasons for this: 1. Food poisoning is not fun. 2. Good meat is expensive and you don’t want toContinue reading “Thermometers”
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