Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Portugal, Spain, food heroes on Jul 29th, 2008
We were collected at Faro Airport by J&L and within 2 hours we’d got to their villa at the Quinta de Suadade and sat at one of there long term favourites eating an annual traditional lunch of Prawn piri piri at the Palladium(Guia). The Restaurant owner Diogo hasn’t changed in years nor has this tasty [...]
Posted in gastropubs on Jul 29th, 2008
With Chester in tow we started our 3 centre holiday at the birth place of the Globe Troffers. Arrived Friday lunch and kicked off with a small taster platter and 1 crab and lobster sandwich washed down with a pint of black sheep for G and a large glass of Mamre Brook Chardonnay, absolutely delicious.
Aysgarth [...]
Posted in home cooking on Jul 9th, 2008
Lovely, lovely fillet steak with twice fried home made chips and Phil’s special home made ketchup (Jamie’s recipe, nice one). Huge treat for a mid week evening - well worth the effort.
Tess, Julie and Georgia made short work of the fillet and chips and then we sat around the table and put the world to [...]
Posted in food festival, gastropubs on Jul 8th, 2008
Sunday saw a trip down to Derbyshire with Paul and Carol to the Belper Food and Drink Fest. Belper is a small market town on the edge of the Peak District and famed for the ‘Fresh Basil’ delicatessen which really is an aladdin’s cave of lovely foodie things.
The festival was quite small and there were [...]
Posted in curry on Jul 7th, 2008
I visited with Dawn and my curry group to the Saffron at Guisley. The lamb chops were the best I’ve had they tasted superb and the portion was ample. unfortunately the main course wasn’t that good. Dawn had a saffron delight and I had chicken in a very sweet sauce. I wasn’t that impressed with [...]
Posted in food heroes on Jul 4th, 2008
Great chorizo that Paul (aka The Calverley Crapper) brought us from Derbyshire.
Uncooked Chorizo is really hard to find, there’s not many butchers who do it. I cooked it -greedily - sliced and fried on its own with a nice glass of Italian Red.
I did find it quite salty but I suspect it was just well [...]