i know it's wierd

but i want to buy these

but seriously

how good are sleater-kinney.

kwik-e-mart

i was in seattle and next to the space needle they had set up a kwik-e-mart to celebrate the simpsons movie. it ruled, look at the picture of the tubby cop with wiggum...

donut soup

molecular gastronomy is a very intriguing topic for me. mixing up textures and flavours and the food stauts quo; snail icecream, melon spheres etc. i read all i can about the fat duck and el bulli and the crazy shit they get up to. i think it's beyond me, however it's interesting to read from a wtf perspective. however one of my regular food blog reads had a pretty easy one; donut soup . pretty easy, fry up some high quality doughnuts steep them in some milk and water, add some more donuts and then blend the hell out of them (that's the abridged version). so on one of my london work trips i went to krispy kreme (i said high quality) and made it. it's sweet, it's thick, it's donutty and delicious...

seekraal

i was at the fish stand the other day and they had this funny green seaweed/spikey stuff that looked interesting. i bought it as seekraal but found out it was called samphire, sea bean/asparagus and a host of other names. it grows near the sea hence it's salty nature. it's crunchy and great, and i've bought it a couple of times since

turkse pizza

We live near a pretty Turkish street (although there is a horse butchery on the road), and they have a delight called turkse pizza. It is a pizza style base topped with tomatoey paste with a little mince, rolled up with lettuce and chilli and garlic sauce. Pretty great and a steal for eur1.50. I think we may have found the holy grail of turkse pizza, a new shop on our road churns out these beauties which made me change my perspective on the genre; crispy base, tomato & cucumber (a vast improvement on simply lettuce), awesome

backlog

I need a burst of inspiration, had the usual busy summertime time. Lots of visitors, rose and her sister, dietmar and annie, I was in seattle for week (more on that to follow, lots of tattoos and coffee, no heroin and a disappointing lack of grunge). Anyway, here we go kids, this was a burst of fun cooking we had in june, about a week or so, most of them will get their own post so I can look like a prolific blogger.
I made some thai curry paste. It was pretty easy, you can see all the ingredients, just a little tough to chop them all before blending. You need an inordinate amount of chillis too (20 dried and 20 birds eye). I liked it, but it wasn’t all time, even though I did concentrate on making it as legit as possible (except I did blend it as opposed to pestle and mortar, which is supposed to allow more of the oils to be naturally released). Fuck that I say, life’s too short for pestle and mortar. I made some mussels with it tonight, nice but not as fresh tasting as normal mussels