If music be the love of food!
So ont days when it’s biting cold n frosty
I whip up my goto winter brex dish….
Good quality porridge oats
Midfields, Sainsbury’s Scottish Organic are my faves.
I add one part oats to two parts water.
Heat till bubbling
Two Desert-spoons Kefir (see earlier posts)
1 Banana Mashed
Tea Spoonful Manuka Honey
A slug of Organic Omega Cool Oil
Dollop of Clotted Creme
And that’s it, Jazz Porri or What!
Suggested listening: Let the four winds blow by Fats Domino
Lidz had one of its Spanish Weeks food wise so I bought a tonne of their marinated mussels
Apart jus heatin n eatin with some crusty bread was wondering what else I could do with the little blighters…
So Jazzed up an ol goto pasta recipe of mine.
In a frying pan slop in a healthy glugg of quality olive oil
Chop some garlic and a small amount of chilli flakes
Add the above, a small cup of chicken/veg stock a healthy schlurpp of white wine and bring up to fizzing temp wise and add les mussels, simmer. (I tend to leave the schjooz they come in to one side.)
When that’s all marinated slowly on a low heat add creme, single/double doesn’t matter.
Meanwhile heat a big pot of water boil Lidz Deluxe Linguine and cook for 15 – 20 minz.
Drain pasta and add creamy alcoholic garlicky crustacean flavoured schjooz…
Stir through and add a grated sprinkle of Lidz 30 month matured Parmigiano Reggiano Dop plus a healthy grind a black pepper. And as they do say in Sunny Italy, Roberto’s your Padre’s brother!
Suggested Listening: Lucky Lucky Lucky Me by Evelyn Knight.
I am paying my weekly pilgrimage to the best chermun deli in the UK Hansel & Pretzel
If you fancy some sweet tuetonic delicacies/fermented goodies head to South West Loondum.
My particular tipple is their coffee and a sliced spelt loaf. It is by far the best I have ever tasted. They bake on the premise and you’ll be served by the friendliest frauline this side of The Siegfried Line.
Suggested Listening: Anything by Marlene Dietrich.
I am currently house sitting in Nevis in the Caribbean and have been aquanting myself with the local cuisine. My go to dish is Rice n Peas (which in this case I used black beans soaked in water overnight). They are then cooked in a pan with some brown rice and a teaspoon of marigold veg stock. I picked up some plantain and avocado at the local market here in Charlestown on a tues. I fry the plantain in organic coconut oil imported from aldz as all food here is very expensive. And also a tin of mackerel in olive oil again imported from the great God Lidz. All washed down with a bottle of fizzy grapefruit drink Ting.
Suggested Listening: 007 (Shanty Town) by Desmond Dekker
On today’s BBC News website page…
An interesting article about fermentation especially interesting to me was the part about kefir. There’s another interesting article about Gut Bacteria in The Gruaniad
I’ve been growing my own kefir for over 5 years now. With the live yoghurt I make a smoothie from:
Chilled Kefir Yoghurt
Bananas
Red fruit – Strawbz Rarzbz etc
Teaspoon Lecigran – GM free lecithin granules
Teaspoon Milled Chia Seeds
Teaspoon Spirulina
Slug of Flaxseed/Udo’s Ultimate Oil
And blitz. Will keep you going till lunch.
Whilst I was driving back from one of my Cotzwoldian House Sits. I was lucky enough to indulge my Sunday Morning Guilty Pleasure of listening to; The Archers followed by Dezzy Ilse Dix and finally I’m Sorry I haven’t a Clue!
As my journey back to Wes Dorse was taking a lot longer than usual I stay tooned to the Food Prog. This week it was all about the way Diet can stave awff Alzhiemerz/Demensch, and it didn’t dissapoint! To me it made alot of common sense as I mostly eat that way anyhoo, mainly down to the fact that I took the anti malarial drug LARIAM for three months in the early 90’s whilst working in Nigeria.
Tests have already linked the use of Lariam with early onset of… : (
But worth a listen non the less. I think if you’re outside the UK it might be difficult to listen (even the humble Kefir gets a mensch) and if you’re are in the UK it won’t be on iplayer for long.
Sorry who are you again?
Suggested Listening: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
Bringing to an end my short daliance with everything eye-tie. I’ve rejigged the classic italian salad starter of avacado mozzerella and tomato.
As you see it’s basically; the same with the avacado asparagus (optional) capers (in brine/olive oil, not vinegar) halloumi cheese sun dried tomz a flash a fresh basil and a healthy smattering of black pepper/good quality olive oil. All of which are V. cheap from Aldz/Lidz. For the full effect get a forkful with a bit of everything on it.
Suggested Listening: Puccini’s La Boheme
Continuing my theme of Gay Aunty lunches in out of the way places, me and Garry Edmiston-Taylor KG (pictured) adjourned to Cardiff City Centre to lunch at one of our fave hostileries.
Cafe Citta is a classic family run restaurant and this is my fifth visit and I am slowly working my way through the menu.
I orderd Linguine Citta.
And my compadre, one of their fine pizzas
All washed down with a bottle of San Pellegrino Aqua Minerale and two coffees, with some bread and olives on the side. Total cost £32 guv. Barg!
The food here is of the highest authentic eye-talian cuisine and they have a roster of specials. Was too full to order a dessert but, their timirisu is TDF!
If you ever find yourself in welsh wales they’re well worth a visit. Yacci Dar!
Met up with one of The Gay Aunties – Mad Dog for post bday lunch just round the corner from his chambers in Islington. He recommended Saponara and it did not dissapoint!
The moment you walk in you half expect to see Al Pacino or Robert De Niro sitting in the corner, or at the very least some of The Sopranos.
I orderd a Quattro Fromaggio and Mad Dawg plumped for a Piccante
I lived in NYC in the mid 80’s and the bench mark those days was a slice from Rays. Well this was way better and reasonable price wise too. For a small deli there was an extensive choice from anti pasta, pizzas and pasta. They open in the evenings till 10 wedz – sat. Would love to spend an evening watching the azure playing on telly while the euros are on! And when the sun shines there are chairs and tables outside. It’s south of Essex rd/Britannia Row and worth a visit if you like good honest eye-talian food.
Suggested listening: An Evening in Roma by Dean Martin
I saw this in this weeks Waitrose Weekend Propaganda Mag. So in the true meaning of Jazz – Take the basic idea and make it your own!
100g of Cashews
75g Walnuts
40g Porridge Oats
50g Goji Berries
10 Dates (pitted)
Bundle that lot into a blender and blitz.
Add this to mix
2 tbsp Coconut Oil (add a little at a time whilst blitzing as maybe too much depending on the moistness of ones fruit)
1 tbsp Flax Seed Oil
2 Tbsp Honey
Pinch a Salt
Blitz again, decant into a greaseproof lined tray. Bung in The Tower Bridge – Fridge for an hour. Dunski!
I cut mine into bar shape shapes and freeze as they go harder, but that’s just down to personal prefs… The joy of this recipe is that you can replace any of the primary ingreedz, raisans, currents, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds. It’s Jazz Baby – You Make It Up!
Suggested Listening: Mountain Greenery by Mel Torme
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