A heads-up that I’ll be taking part in the first Food 2.0 - Nom Nom Nom event this Sunday, the 18th of May. One of the things I’ll be making is Nettle Soup, a foraged delicacy I’ve recently discovered, and some more besides, in the fine company of my mate Ed, who’ll be making some of these delicious Scotched Eggs…
Check the site for full details, and check back soon for a report.
Stop sniggering at the back. As the above video proves, being able to crack an egg single-handed is cool. It must be, because Michael Caine does it, and Michael Caine is cool. Ipso. Facto.
Here’s a guy in a wheelchair who taught himself to cook one-handed: How to break an egg with one hand. Will give that a try later.
Russell posted the video today because he’s just got his hands on Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book, which rules. Go check out who’s really the one-handed genius in that film.
I’ve got a couple of very interesting-looking cookbooks on the way. Stay tuned.
It’s apple time. In fact, it was Apple Day last week, in case you missed it. My landlady has a big apple tree in her garden, and she gave me a big bag of them with the advice: “They’re not very good this year.” Nevertheless, I immediately conceived a plan.
After deciding that making cider was a bit too much work, I realised I could make Black Butter….
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Under threat of legal action, I’m not at liberty to reveal the identities of the two fine gentlemen in this photograph, but I can tell you that it was taken on the banks of the Zambezi, about 10km downstream from Lake Kariba, which puts it somewhere round here. That’s boerwoers on the braai, and a bream about to go on. Plus two generous Pink Gins in true Cooking With Booze fashion.
At a good 5,000 miles as the crow flies, that’s the furthest a copy of CWB has travelled - so far. Let me know if anyone can beat it…
Not actually connected with CWB in anything but spirit (geddit?), but I recently came across The Soho Project, a collaborative challenge game thing taking part across Soho - one of whose strands is ‘Soho Picnic’. This is Team Gintastic’s entry, and gets a mention for doing ‘Potato Vodka Surprise’ in the middle of the street.
More about the Soho Project, and a couple of similar vids from my friends Mikey and Tom: Steak Tartare and Soho Square Cerviche.
Today is veg day at Bone Towers - I’m a member of Growing Communities, a fantastic vegetable box scheme in North London. Every Wednesday I get a big bag of veg for the week, and go to work trying to polish it off. This veg is always so much better than the stuff from the shops - because it all came out of the ground in the last day or so. Some of it’s grown within a couple of miles of my house - and I live in Hackney…
Above is this week’s haul: potatoes, parsnips, onions, carrots, lettuce, broccoli and sweetcorn. I also picked up some fresh eggs and some mushrooms - and a pomegranate, because they’re lovely. → Read the rest of this post…
Yes! Cooking With Booze is officially out today. Check out this page for more info.
I made some more videos over the weekend. They were all pretty quick and tasty, but fine eating. Flambéing the mushrooms was particularly fun. If you’ve never flambéed anything, I highly recommend it.
Videos after the jump…
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So, I made a video of me cooking one of the recipes (this one):
I used fresh tomatos because I’d just harvested a bunch from my roof, so the sauce turned out a bit more liquid than it should be, but it was super-tasty.
This is actually my third cooking video (more here), but the first from the book. I’m planning on doing a whole series of them - but I’m hoping that other people will help me out and make some of their own. It would be great to have one (or more!) for every recipe in the book.
How about it?
It’s pretty easy - I’m using a really crappy webcam, and a free OSX programme called Gawker, then I edited it a bit with iMovie, stuck on a tune (in this case, Four Friends And A Microphone by The Black Dog), and uploaded it to Vimeo, which is like YouTube, but nicer.
Go on, have a go, and tag anything you do, anywhere, ‘cookingwithbooze’ so I can find it.
This is a little blog about Cooking with Booze, a completely awesome cookbook. The blog has its own RSS Feed.
You can read the whole book online, and let us know what you think of the recipes.
Here's the Introduction to the book, and the Table of Contents.
There's also some information about the web edition and some geeky stuff.
But hey, screw that—Why not just go and buy the book now?