A journey through world cuisine from A-Z
A journey through world cuisine from A-Z
Spoiler and melancholy alert: This will be the last dinner and post on this blog. This dinner club, in its current cook-at-home iteration, was lovingly and enthusiastically launched by Dorottya, Bernhard and myself about six years ago (following from their alphabetical run eating world cuisines in restaurants). We usually invited other friends to these dinners, …
Did you know da Vinci was an accomplished Chef?? I certainly did not.But Leonardo was an avid cook, who made lavish meals for his apprentices and himself, and for 30 years was the Master of Banquets & Festivities at the court of the all-powerful Sforza family in Milano. There he also invented several labour-saving tools …
A heinous murder has occurred in one of Manhattan’s most fashionable restaurants: A star chef has fallen victim to his own success, and the envy of this hot-headed, ego-riddled industry. As we came together to review the evidence, investigate, and discover the Killer, there was no time for fancy five-course meals and elaborate dishes! This …
Jamaica #2 – Dorottya’s take, March 2024Dorottya was greatly helped and inspired by this information-packed blog: Jamaican Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started This episode is not for the faint of heart or the prudish. We’re going to get carnal. I gotta admit I was a teeny bit disappointed when Dorottya said she’s chosen …
And props 😉 I is mine. And various ideas for it were proposed to me or thought up by myself. But none excited brain or pallet (Imperial with Coronation chicken and Mongolian mutton, or Pasta a-la-Romana? Idiotic & Infantile – fun idea, but super boring food (jam sandwiches? fish fingers?) Then, dangerously close to the …
Audaces Fortuna Iuvat! – Fortune favours the brave. In the kitchen, our host, Idit, is certainly that (I claim no knowledge of other departments). For our G dinner, she picked the theme “Gladiator” – the slave-warrior-showmen of the Roman Empire’s Games. This meant researching how these men were fed back in antiquity, procuring unusual ingredients, …
Welcome, one and all, to the dark lair of Dr. Frankenstein, and please say hello to Aubrey – the unfortunate brainchild of our indefatigable host for this H dinner, Bernhard. Muahahaha…. As you can see, Aubrey is made of veg and kebabs, sewn together with string to create a truly abominable piece de resistance for …
Dorottya doesn’t do things in half measures. Dorottya is rather an all-or-nothing sort of person. This whole Dinners-by-the-Alphabet started because she proposed the idea to Bernhard back when they were dating – and now, 6 years down the line, the 5 of us are all at it, and won’t stop. It used to be all …
So, confession time: this isn’t the menu I’d originally planned. After scouring the web for 80′ characteristic dishes, I’d settled on making ’80 party foods: Devilled eggs, cheese & veg toothpick hedgehog, vol-au-vents, Viennetta ice-cream cake. But then came Lianne’s Disco dinner – an all-in 70′ party food bonanza – and guess what she served?? …
Lianne is back! Thanks to her dedication to the annual Big Fun Walk, raising funds for the North London Hospice (you can donate here), we got to enjoy her company and cooking again 🙂 And her chosen theme for D dinner was… Disco! What the hell is Disco food, you ask? Well, It’s all those …