Archive for April, 2007

The Utterley Sexy Cafe

by Andrew on April 30, 2007 in Online Retailers with 1 Comment

Utterley Sexy Cafe cakeThe Utterly Sexy Café is a highly original, full service catering company which provides beautifully prepared food creatively decorated and elegantly served. But they offer more than just menus for weddings and christenings, they also do a rather fab line in mail order cakes.

The highly decorated Mandala cake to the left is £49 plus £4.50 postage. It is available in a choice of round or square cake and comes complete with a personal greeting in iced lettering included in the price.

The delightful cupcakes are £20 plus £3 postage. You can order online but it is advised that you order at least a week in advance.


Utterley Sexy Cafe cupcakes

Leaf Tea Travel Bag

by Andrew on April 27, 2007 in Online Retailers, Specialist Shops with 1 Comment

Leaf Travel KitLeaf, the London and online tea boutique has released a limited edition tea travel kit “so you don’t run out of a good quality cup of tea on weekends away”.

The bag, of which there are only 500, was designed by Parisian designer Les Petites Emplattes is exclusive to Leaf; it is made from grey felt and other natural materials. It contains 6 mini refillable tins of tea, of your choice, and little filters.

Choose which 6 teas you want from the list (e-mail us with your selection) or choose a surprise assortment. Earl grey tea (2 cup tin) – Organic blue oolong tea (2 cup tin)- Black tea scented with rose (2 cup tin)- Black tea scented with lychee (2 cup tin) – Black tea from Nepal (2 cup tin) – Organic green tea (1 cup tin)- Green tea scented with osmanthus flowers (2 cup tin) – Everyday black tea (1 cup tin) – White tea (1 cup tin) – Darjeeling tea (1 cup tin)

The Tea Travel Bag is available for purchase at Leaf for £35.

Leafshop
26-32 Voltaire road
Clapham North Art Centre
Unit 3F
London SW4 6DH

In Search of… Frogs Legs

by Andrew on April 25, 2007 in In Search Of..., Online Retailers with 5 Comments

Frogs LegsFor those who follow the vibrant food culture online cannot have failed to have run across the wonderful Bron Marshall writing down in New Zealand. She has just announced a fun little ‘theme’ for the myriad bloggers out there – Wild Food – Reptiles. Basically a recipe is required for some form of reptilian dish – Crocodile perhaps or snake. Maybe a chocolate Crocodile!

Frogs Legs sprang to mind. Having never tried them I have no idea, in fact, on how to cook them or where to buy them from!

A search online revealed two ‘specialist meat dealers’ – Dunstan Game and Osgrow Online. Both stock Frogs Legs. A 1 kg bag, I assume frozen, retails for £14.57 as Osgrow and £15.75 at Dunstan.

A 1 kg bag holds approximately 24 legs – more than I require and more than I really wanted to spend. Another plan for Bron’s event is required.

[Frogs Legs image from Dunstan Game]

St Georges Day Recipe Booklet

by Andrew on April 23, 2007 in Books For Cooks, Supermarkets with 7 Comments

St Georges Day RecipesSaint George’s Day! A feast day since the 1415 it seems to pass us English by, with little more than a whimper. To counter this supermarket chain Morrisons has published a St. George’s Day Recipe Booklet.

Designed to celebrate medieval English cookery and English ingredients, it contains a selection of starters, main courses, sauces, sweet dishes and drinks, originally eaten by English royalty and aristocracy. The booklet is available at checkouts throughout Morrisons stores in England. To offer a range of recipes which can be used throughout the year the booklet indicates when English produce is in season.

Recipes include Oyster Soup, Roast Chicken with Sauce Madam, Sweet and Sour Lamb and Almond Cakes. Several of the recipes utilise Almond Milk, a recipe for which is also provided. Almond milk was “an essential ingredient in Medieval food”.

The booklet can also be downloaded in PDF format.

Gordon Ramsay

by Andrew on April 21, 2007 in Books For Cooks, In the Press, On The Web with No comments

Gordon Ramsay’s Fast FoodGordon Ramsay has a new book out shortly – Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food: Recipes from “The F Word” (pre-order £13.19) where he details his ‘fastest-ever recipes’ – proving that cooking a delicious meal from scratch can take less time than dialling for a pizza.

During the coming week various recipes from the book will be presented via short video clips on The Times website; Ramsay is the newspapers principal food writer. The video series begins today with his linguine with tomatoes, olives and capers dish.

Three versions are available enabling you to watch the show via your IPOD, Windows Media Player or via the Quicktime player. There is also an RSS feed to automatically receive the show.

Interestingly you can sign up to receive text messages listing the ingredients for the daily recipe.

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