“I swear by the kitchen gods . . .
. . . that the recipes on this website shall be suitable to be made on a Tuesday evening after working late.
From this day forth, all recipes on The Boy Can Cook will: Continue reading
Pumpkin soup courtesy of YOU!
Pumpkin soup
“super huge uber pumpkins only 50p in tescos at the moment – soup would be about 20p a day for a week non?”
So said a message from my my girlf this afternoon . . . and she’s right, you could easily use my recipe for soup with pumpkins, and at that price it would be even cheaper than normal.
And here’s my friend Jane’s appetizing version:
Pumpkin soup
Have a go yourself, let me know how you get on, and please share your own recipes. Take photos of your masterpiece and either send me a link or post them on Twitter and Tweet @scottcolfer. Happy cooking!
Review: Maltby Street Market and Greensmiths, London.
Maltby Street Market
Go for a meandering food & drink walk south of the Thames, loosely focussing on Maltby Street.
Borough Market is great, but it’s often heaving with tourists to the point of frustration.
My friend recommended Maltby Street as a much smaller, much less busy alternative to Borough Market. Maltby Street isn’t a market, it’s a loose collection of shops all within a few streets of one another, mainly selling very expensive, but incredibly nice fruit, veg, cheese, meat, and drinks . . . Continue reading
Restaurant review: Hawksmoor, Seven Dials.
The Dining Room
Please sir, can I have some Hawksmoor?
I spent most of Halloween in a blissful food coma.
Why? I went for Sunday lunch at the new Hawksmoor restaurant in Seven Dials (near Covent Garden) . . . and it was good. Really good. Continue reading
The girl can cook.
My lovely girlfriend decided to have a crack at some of the boy’s recipes.
She made some excellent pesto and some very tasty fish fingers – good work!
After cranking up her laptop in the kitchen she first set to making the fish fingers. Continue reading
Courgettes and pesto – a Tweet along recipe.
Getting ready
Monday. 16th August 2010. 7pm. My first cook-a-long, on Twitter.
It was chaotic, at times it was frantic. And it was a blast.
The recipe was a secret until it was finished, all I had in advance were the ingredients and some suggestions re: equipment. The cooking was led by Chef Tim Maddams of River Cottage’s Landshare and hosted by Central Station as part of ‘Harvest’ (a celebration of food and growing taking place on 28th August in Glasgow, and delivered by NVA). I set up my Macbook in the kitchen, fired up Twitter, prepared my ingredients, and waited for it to kick off . . . Continue reading
Yours truly on Cute Boys with Cupcakes.
It’s raining the proverbial cats and dogs as I look out of the window so I thought we could all do with a bit of cheering up.
First up, a few weeks ago when the sun was still shining, the girl and I were wandering around Primrose Hill on a Sunday afternoon.
We decided to treat ourselves to some cakes from the Primrose Hill Bakery – obviously, we went for ma-hoosive cupcakes.
Spinach, Bacon & Pine Nut Pasta – a meal for two.
Sausage sandwiches
Here’s a quick post about my food this weekend.
Spinach, Bacon & Pine Nut Pasta on Saturday, sausage & egg sandwiches on Sunday.
Spinach, Bacon & Pine Nut Pasta.
I wanted to make something ‘Summery’, tasty, filling, and quick for us both following a hard Saturday of cash-splurging. The lemon in this dish gives it a flavour of the Summer and is an interesting twist. Continue reading
Restaurant review: Leong’s Legends III, London.
Crab. Duck-tongues. Trotters. Yum.
I can still taste the dishes from this Monday’s meal in Leong’s Legends III, in Bayswater.
Address: 82 Queensway, Bayswater, London W2 3RL.
Tel: 020 7221 2280 Continue reading
Restaurant review: Goldfish City, London.
Gold Fish City
Goldfish City offers the chance to have classic, tried and tested chinese dishes.
If you’re feeling adventurous you can also try some unique (and incredibly tasty) modern dishes.
Disclosure: I was asked to review Goldfish City for this blog. The staff knew I was a reviewer and I did not have to pay for my meal. Continue reading
