Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 27, 2012 · 17 Comments
Nothing beats a good spring cleaning It was long overdue but it really needed to be done, and what better way to make sure I stayed off my broken foot then to finally finish the blog clean up I started a few weeks ago. It’s taken me almost a month to do so, not just … Continue reading →
Filed under Adventures, Alcohol, American, amuse bouche, Baking, Barbecue, Beef, Breakfast, British, Cakes, Chicken, Cool stuff, Country life, Dessert, Dinner, england, English, Features, Fish, Pork, seafood, Stories, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Barbecue, Chinese cuisine, Cook, Jamie Oliver, London, Olive oil, Pork belly, San Francisco
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 20, 2012 · 17 Comments
A fish dish fit for a king I haven’t done a Friday Is For Fish recipe in a really long time, so it’s really disappointing for me when the photos I take don’t come out as nice as I’d like them to. This week, I made some steamed fish, Chinese-style, which I was really looking … Continue reading →
Filed under Adventures, Banquet, Chinese, Dinner, Fish, Ginger, Hake, Lunch, scallions, soy sauce, Spring onions, Stories, Sugar, vegetable oil · Tagged with Banquet, Chinese cuisine, Cook, Fish, Ginger, Hake, Scallion, Soy sauce, Steamed fish, Steaming
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 14, 2012 · 22 Comments
Be careful what you wish for… When I was growing up, I always wanted to break a limb, ideally my arm. It had nothing to do with wanting broken bones and everything to do with wearing a cast. Kids in the neighbourhood who did break bones and wear casts lorded it over every other able-bodied … Continue reading →
Filed under Adventures, American, Breakfast, British, Butter, Cool stuff, Country life, Dessert, Dinner, Eggs, Flour, Godalming, Lunch, Milk, Sugar, Sweet · Tagged with Breakfast, Butter, Cook, Flour, Home, Pancake, Shrove Tuesday
I interrupt today’s usual weekend broadcast with an extra special bulletin… Today is my town’s annual food fair – the Godalming Food Festival 2012. Today is also the launch of my husband’s new community-based online channel. He came up with the idea of creating a local, online video channel when he realised there wasn’t really … Continue reading →
I am alone at home today. My husband has gone to visit his family, providing me with the rare treat of having the house to myself to veg out in as I see fit. I am using this time to clean up this blog and am creating new tabs so it’s easier for people to … Continue reading →
Filed under Adventures, Cheese, Country life, Dinner, Garden, Herbs, Ingredients, Italian, Lemon, Lunch, Parmesan, Pine nuts, Sage · Tagged with Cook, Olive oil, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Pasta, Pine nut, Recipe, Sunday