The God Of Comfort Food

I prayed to the God(s) of comfort food and my prayers were answered this morning as a small box of goodies from the land down under have arrived which contains the much missed Soya King Soya chips flavoured personally by angels with sour cream and chives. And lo I was very pleased and almost reduced [...]

Brain Patched

I seem to be at the first marker of my recovery period following my ‘brain transplant’ shortly before Xmas. Most of the pain has now subsided save from the odd momentary stab, the stitching dissolved, and I’ve stopped spontaneously bleeding all over the house (never a good look).
Follow Up Not
I came away from a [...]

Recipe: Buttermilk Bread With Soya Bran

With the price of bread going through the roof (premium bread can easily be over £1 a loaf now in the UK) it’s good to make your own once in a while. The secret to the kind of fluffy bread I like is to use buttermilk but I like to add wheat bran, rye [...]

Green Supermarket Memory

On the thorny subject of recycling and supermarket food packaging I was reminded of a large local supermarket that attempted to pre-empt today’s excess packaging concerns by offering unpackaged food items such as rice, cereals etc in a no-frills, no packaging area of the store where customers bought their own storage receptacles such as Tupperware [...]

NHS Food A Disgrace?

Twenty percent of UK NHS staff would be unhappy to eat the food served up to many of the thirteen million patients admitted into NHS hospitals every year.
Research shows that hospital food had been improving up to the great financial deficits of a year or so ago but cutbacks put in place to help reign [...]