Tampopo (1985)

タンポポ Tanpopo (1984)
Juzo Itami

Possibly the greatest food-cult film, disguised as a romantic comedy.

E5 0DN garden lunch

first summer garden lunch

The easiest baked peppers from my mum's receipes (can feed 4 as a side dish):
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2 peppers (yellow, red, orange)
2 big ripe tomatoes, finely chopped (half a can of tinned tomatoes can successfully be used in winter times)
2-3 slices of stale bread, finely chopped or put through the blender
1-2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
finely chopped parsley
salt and pepper
olive oil
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Pre-heat oven to 200ºc. Cut the peppers into small boats and place them in an ovenproof dish. Mix the finely chopped tomatoes with garlic (we prefer two cloves...) and parsley, season with salt and pepper (generously) add a slug of olive oil. Spoon in a tablespoon of the tomato mix in each pepper boat. Sprinkle a layer of chopped bread crumbs over each boat and finish with a drizzle of olive oil and salt and pepper.
Bake the peppers for half an hour.
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EAT
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Hot or Cold

empty plates!

Great meal moments with non-great meal images (I) Circa 2008–2010

The Birdcage — Free supper, Sour Wine, Snimky, Tatiana.

Bow — Such days, 12:30pm, GG

Lower Clapton — First non-vegetarian meal, Adrian & Sara

Evelyn House — No one
makes Sticky Toffee Pudding
like Sarah does.
No-bo-dy
(recipe stolen from Nigel Slater)
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For the pudding
150g dates, stones removed, chopped
250ml hot water
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
60g butter, softened
60g caster sugar
2 free-range eggs
150g self-raising flour
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For the toffee sauce
200g butter
400g brown sugar
vanilla pod, split
250ml double cream
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Preheat the oven to 180C. Mix the dates, bicarbonate of soda and the water together in a bowl and leave to soak for ten minutes. In a clean bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
(we are lazy and do it with the electrical whisk, you have to keep going until it has almost turned white - a bit of patience is needed) Still stirring the butter mixture, gradually add the eggs, making sure they are well mixed in. Still stirring (yup lots of stirring), gradually add the flour, then add the date mixture. Pour the mixture into a 20cm/8in square cake tin. Place into the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes, or until cooked through
(handy trick: you can stick a match in the cake, if it comes out covered in dough it needs to cook for a bit longer).
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To make the sauce, melt the butter in a thick bottomed pan over a medium heat.
Add the brown sugar, vanilla pod and cream and stir well. Simmer for five minutes.
(In our experience there's N E V E R enough sticky toffee sauce, we are considering making double next time)
To serve, spoon out a portion of the pudding onto a plate and pour over the hot toffee sauce. E A T !

Kingsland Rd — Aftermath Village Fete,
Pre-moving London, Household, Yuri.

Lansdowne Drive — Cake & Death, Sarah

Roding Rd — Sugarless walnut brownies

Roding Rd — D E N M A R K

BN1 — Nothing to declare

Roding Rd — Meal itself erased from memory,
but it appears to be the first ever dinner at Roding Rd.
Memorable

A post like these should to be followed by mores posts like these. And recipes to great meals. With great photos.

FOOD CENTRE 2 — Current Top 10 commodities

193 Homerton High Street, Homerton
London, E9 6BB

1. Cypressa Green Olives (overly salty, yet perfect for salads)             
2. Cypressa Can Chickpeas (home-made hummus)               
3. Onken Plain Yogurt (bircher muesli winner)               
4. Wholegrain McVities (out of stock)        
5. Giant leaf-parsley (big leaves, BIG)                
6. Ripen avocados (two for one sterling pound)             
7. Assorted nut-mix (life)
8. Crabbies Ginger Beer (4.0% alcohol, drunk-gaze after two of these)
9. Canned Foyo Coconut Water (with real coconut flakes – via Sonia)
10. Green & Black's Sour Cherry (Coffee intercourse)

As spring makes its way into Great London.

A little of what you fancy

Finally got to go to A little of what you fancy on 464 Kingland Road, London E8 4AE!
The place has been open for about 6 months, but I think my wallet had told me to wait for my mum to come visit and take me there... It's a little in the expensive end, sharing starter and desert, two mains, two glasses of white, half a liter of red, two espressos came to £76.50 - BUT the quality of the food was amazing. The dishes were simple letting the ingredients speak for themselves. Almost like Italian cooking... But with a East London vibe.
The place has a very nicely relaxed atmosphere and the service is sweet and the kind that knows when they need to pass by to check you haven't fallen of your chair of pure joy.
Here is what we ate:

Smoked Salmon, ryebread, capers berries, peashoots

the salmon was soft as butter, and the ryebread was soft inside with a crunchy crust

Mouthwatering tower of lamb cutlets, jersey potatoes and wild garlic pesto

The dessert was so delicious I forgot to photograph it...
Olive oil cake with salty caramel ice cream

JUST GO!
http://www.alittleofwhatyoufancy.info/

Yup it's right we are here...

Pastis Fishmarket - DK KBH

BEST Fish pie in Copenhagen, found when my Farfar took me to Pastis Fishmarket
- Hovedvagtsgade 2, København K 1103, Denmark
http://www.fishmarket.dk/

DK Meat Bonanza XMAS

Meat bonanza with a twinkle

The secret to the crunchiest "flaeskesvaerd" (crackling)...
LOTS of salt rubbed in-between the scores - bay leaves as well...

sauce and caramelised potato heart attack !

oh yeah the vegetable