Idit held her cards close to her chest. As the night of her B dinner approached, she subtly let on that between being very busy with work, and as only Bernhard and I joining herself and Oliver dear for dinner, she probably won’t go very thematic on it. This one will be low-key. So with …
Here we go AAAAgain…To… Angola?
Remember my declaration last time that this reboot of our Alphabetic dinners will be all about themes? Well, erm, not yet, as it turned out. We’re having Angolan food today! Dorottya is hosting, with her friend Val; Lianne is still up in Scotland, and Idit is too ill to attend 🙁 Bernhard and I promised …
We’ve made it to Z!!!
And how fitting and serendipitous it is that we can complete our culinary world tour of the alphabet as the calendar year is drawing to a close. This one’s mine, and I chose New Zealand as our foodie destination (sadly without Lianne, who moved north to Scotland last month). I hope you will excuse the …
Xhosa: Parting is such sweet (and savoury) sorrow!
This is a bit of a sad one. Our cozy little Dinner Club family is shrinking… Lianne is moving to Scotland, and this is her farewell dinner. It almost didn’t happen – with the mammoth task of moving her entire life from east-London to an Edinburgh suburb, there was not much time or head-space left …
Yucatan. Coz Y not Mexico
Or: How to get away with doing Mexican again, without incurring the wrath of Dorottya. 23 June 2022 Yes, yes, we should be on X. But X is Lianne’s, and she is currently couch-surfing between homes, so Bernhard is doing Y first. And his mother is coming. And it’s her birthday. We’re gonna to have …
Who Framed the Welsh Rarebit?
Idit, March 21st 2022 Or: WE ATE WALES Because Idit found a list of traditional Welsh dishes on BBC Good Food – and cooked it. The whole bloomin’ lot. Here it is: Welsh Rarebit Glamorgan Sausage Bara Brith Lamb Cawl Conwy Mussels Leeks Tart Laverbread Crempogs Sewin and Samphire Salt Marsh Lamb No, I tell …
V for Vend… Oh, Vanuatu!
Dorottya, Feb 7th 2022 Vanuatu is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch along 1,300 kilometres, with a population of a little over 307,000 people.It gained its independence in 1980 from France and Britain, who called it The New Hebrides, because they didn’t have enough imagination to come up …
U – Yoqimli Ishtaha!
Uzbekistan, Arianna, 10.1.22 It didn’t take much research to see that if I wanted to go for a cuisine which would be different than most of the ones we’ve done so far, and which would take me outside my cooking-comfort zone, it would have to be Uzbek. This near-eastern Muslim country sits on the crossroads …
T – All Hat and No Cattle??
Bernhard, 22/11/21 The founding members of this little club of ours are seriously taking liberties, throwing the rule book every which way. First it was Dorottya with her audacious Quarantine dinner for Q, and now it’s Bernhard, electing a US State rather than a sovereign country for his T dinner!! Well, I’ll be darned! Hold …
Texan Mac n’ Cheese recipe
By Bernhard Pucher This, like the ribs, was an amalgamation of two different recipes and a bit of inspiration and luck by both Arianna and me. Here’s what happened: Ingredients: – macaroni pasta 500g– Grated Medium cheddar 300g (buy a block and grate yourself, don’t buy pre-grated. Doesn’t melt as well!)– Grated Gruyère 200g (ditto!)– …