Monthly Archive for April, 2010

I really like good quality and cheap pub meals.  They usually have all the favourites like chicken parma, calamari rings and inevitably steak.  Some places do these foods extremely well and matched with hot, crispy thickly cut chips and a few mates it is always a good time out.  However many pubs do these foods [...]

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Read descriptions such as ravioli of octopus with rice and tomato, cured goose breast with chicken liver parfait, poached rhubarb, black pepper and ginger bread or Low temperature cooked hapuka fillet with braised leeks and baby onions, clam beignets, curry and crème fraiche and you can’t help but be impressed.  These dishes all sound amazing [...]

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Recently Jeroxie from Addictive and Consuming launched the International Incident Party.  Earlier this year she held the Gnocchi Party which was a great success and I was keen to participate. This month the challenge was pizza pie.  I didn’t really know what this meant.  Was it to be pizza, a pie, a combination of both?  [...]

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Of all foods I think roast chicken is one that practically everybody (barring vegetarians) enjoy.  It is really easy to cook, cheap and it looks pretty cool as well.  I like the fact it can be enjoyed on its own or as leftovers in a myriad of different dishes.  However with all the great things [...]

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I am a massive Dexter fan.  The show is superb, the books are not that great.  In season three (episode seven “Easy as Pie”) Dexter’s confidant Camilla Figg is hospitalised with terminal cancer so Dexter the very empathetic serial killer agrees to find her the perfect Key Lime Pie before she passes.  I have never [...]

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