Category: Eating

  • Eating the twelve days of Christmas

    Meat lovers’ Christmas lunch We ate Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day and we’re probably gonna be eating the weekend as well. We’ve been feasting so much because you gotta have turkey and you gotta have ham, and those things can only come in certain sizes – there’s no fun-sized turkeys or hams –…

  • As we’ve suspected all along

    We did something really stupid on the last Saturday before Christmas – we drove to Parkway Parade and tried to shop. Well actually, we were in the area for reasons beyond our control, but having said that, we could’ve avoided Parkway Parade, but didn’t. We could also have avoided dining at Olio Dome, but didn’t,…

  • A hearty Christmas

    Don’t care recession or not. It’s Christmas and we’re determined to cook up and eat up. And so far, the results have been quite satisfactory – i.e. we’ve only stuffed up one dish out of what, six? And we didn’t realise that raspberries had so many seeds:

  • Understatement

    Loyal Reader Lincoln told us Wednesday that staff at Akashi reckon that their Chicken Karaage is “better than KFC”. That’s no way to describe your own chicken. Like I’ve heard somewhere else, even General Tso’s trumps Colonel Sanders’ just on rank. The Chicken Karaage alone is worth a visit to Akashi, and as their staff…

  • Simply Bread

    One of the great things about Naomi being pregnant is that we’re really enjoying our food. I mean, really enjoying our food. Yes, we know that we have to make the calories count and not overeat and all that, but this eating (properly) for two thing has given our kitchen a new purpose, a new…