Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
This week’s recipe is for spinach, mushroom and lemon pilaf from Olive magazine’s 30 Low-Fat Recipes booklet, free with the February 2008 issue. Spinach, mushroom and lemon pilaf 30 minutes * EASY onions 2, finely sliced garlic 2 cloves, crushed 50g butter chestnut mushrooms 150g, sliced cinnamon 1 stick cloves 4 whole cardamom pods 4, [...]
Julia over at A Slice of Cherry Pie is running this month’s In the Bag competition, which challenges us cooks and food bloggers to cook and eat more seasonal food. The ingredients for January are pears, lemon and nuts. For example, Julia has created a pear, smoked cheddar and walnut salad, while at new food [...]
The finalists for the 2008 Bloggies – the Oscars of the web – have been announced. Please go to the Bloggies website to help decide the final winners. There are a number of food-themed blogs in the finals this year, both in the food category and in other categories such as the Australia and New [...]
I heard on the Today show this morning that the UK Government wants to make cookery compulsory in schools for children up until the age of 14. The theory is that teaching children about food and food preparation will both prepare them for adult life and help tackle the nation’s burgeoning obesity crisis. I think [...]
A weekly round-up of foodie news and features online. * Should we be eating insects? Tim Dowling at The Guardian thinks so. * Lively discussion on the Word of Mouth blog on the merits of cloned meat. * 2008 is apparently the International Year of the Potato. (Maybe this will give me some inspiration for [...]
I’ve been working in Farringdon this week so I popped up to Exmouth Market to sample some food from the street market. I had various choices, including Italian sausages and Breton pancakes, but I was most struck by Spinach & Agushi, the Ghanaian food stall. It’s obviously quite popular because, as well as having to [...]
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