Sausage and Mash – English Comfort Food

  It is nearing the end of  my first full week over in the UK and it has rained nearly every day. I guess that I did wish for some rain when I came over as I do miss the English rain. But now to be honest I am bored of it and I could do with so…

Cooking at home aka Jamie Oliver – Meatball Carbonara

So earlier today I had a disastrous lunch at Burrito House, but never mind, as promised (mostly to myself) tonight I have cooked one of my favorite meals, my version of Jamie Oliver’s Sausage Carbonara or ‘linguine alla carbonara di salsiccia’. Now I do take some liberties with the recipe which all good home cooks…

Man off a tram “How a guy follows a recipe in Stephanie Izard’s ‘Girl in the Kitchen’ cookbook and spent $40 making soup (good soup mind you)

So sometime back when I started this blog I went down to Ethyl’s Food Truck Night where Stephanie Izard was selling her new book “Girl in the Kitchen” and selling soup from the Lillie’s Q food truck.  https://elstopfoodhunt.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/girl-in-a-food-truck-ethyls-dive-bar-truckin-thursday/ Since then I have watched that season of  Top Chef and finally this week made the attempt…