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Blaah, do they sell peeled fava beans in Egypt...I can tell it's really hard peeling the beans :x Now I understand why everybody says it's easier to buy them at some street corner than prepare them...
For the last 6 months I have been sampling cheap red wines, anything under a £5 fiver..
If one scans the bottom shelves of M&S, Waitroses, ect one can find their own brands..
After drinking 1 bottle...
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Ps: And on a lighter note:
I have just obtained brand new security footage from the White House's bunker..ssh!
I thought you’d be glued to the telly watching The Millennium Dome Heist 8)
Remember those ?
Months ago as our first lockdown was instigated Simona started hoarding toilet rolls and rice ?
Me, on the other hand collected a few 'well-remembered Fray Bentos steak & kidney...
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After reading this I went to Iceland and bought one. Cooked it and was sorry I had wasted my money. To make them they start with squirting a mixture of small pieces of mystery meat into the tin, then...
Went down to Waitrose's to purchase 'posh stuff unavailable in t'co-op.
I was going to purchase some palatable 'posh wines, but spotted their own brand Spanish & Italian Reds.
£4.50 half the price of...
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I've got a couple of wine boxes already in stock :) à votre santé également !!
So, time to concentrate on imagination & diversification in one's kitchen. 3-4-5-6 months ?
I love Jamie's 30 minute meals, I turn them into a 6 hour meal.
All whilst cleaning and trying to disinfect...
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Ok! told yah, she has this weird sense of humour she's now berating the chefs on Master Chef.
My pizza base was sh*t but hey 3 months they should be great.
She shares my food amongst her friends.
I...
Browsing the freezer cabinets of KZ last Saturday morning, looking for new products.
Spotted these tasty looking bangers...
Don't be fooled, No meat only bulgar wheat and herbs, 'Swizz.... 8)
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Saturday's shopping trip, to find our watering hole 'awaama invaded by loads of ladies,
a promotion for business & assertiveness.
A few wanted to interview us about Egypt on their 'smartphones,...
So, as our local baker's standards have dropped due to the summer, and he doesn't know about 'real bread.
I, me have decided to bake my own. I have shied-away from anything to do with pastry after I...
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Who try Ragabs, they have different kinds of flour and I'm sure they have bread flour in there.
One winner was Liberty Kitchen based in HMP Pentonville.
Now, Pentonville is the only London Prison that contains it's own bakery.
Whist there partaking of her Maj's hospitality our main interest...
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Just listened to the 2nd part of The BBC Food & Farmings awards..
The winner of the best outstanding achievement award to my mate Fergus,' nnnice one fergy... 8)
Does anyone know of anyone in Luxor that sells 'true saffron threads ?
Most of the rubbish they have tried to palm me off with, is dyed tree bark.
So, has anyone discovered real saffron in or around...
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If you can wait awhile I'm sure Carrie would get some for you when she comes to stay with me in Datca, in September. You can buy genuine Iranian saffron in the spice shops here, but it's not cheap....
I know this sounds strange, but I make my own fly bait.
I used to use South African red-top fly traps £7.50 each, Now I have tried many formulas, even using my own waste products, which ended upon...
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She was at our Tuesday drinking session Barry.... 8)
Hopefully she was fun. I'm sure you gave them a good time :up
A new pop up restaurant from South Africa is about to hit London.
If one orders Oysters this is what you get...
One Oyster and 6 pebbles some-one is taking the 'michael...omho... 8)
Ps: Almost...
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Bruce, Nick and myself once visited a 'new Smithfield fish restaurant called 'bubble & shell for an early luncheon.
I had lobster, Bruce had moules, Nick had oysters a dozen Loch Fyne, I believe.
And...
It's 1.30 am and it's noisy, kids love Ramadan they can eat and drink sugary drinks all day
because they don't have to observe it, Then they can stay up all night with all the grown-ups having fun....
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Up with the 'crack of sparrows, 'hardly yardly....
So, an ice cold Meister and a dip in the 22oC plunge pool (with bubbles) ready for the day
and the 1.o'clock news.
Liverpool won then ! football...
Rudely awaken 'by a ringing in my head at 8.am, staggered around only to find it was Ahmed 'bamboo maker,
I forgot being up at all hours. He's come to measure up all that was lost in my last fire....
Now here's an interesting article from the 'Gruaniad by Geoffrey Kamadi.
Personally I'm not enthusiastic on Nile fish this side of the High Dam, but have seen some whoppers caught the
other side...
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We used to fish for Nile Perch in lake Victoria in the early 1970's :up they could grow quite massive, we used large centre pin multiplyer reels intended for deep sea fishing that we bought in the UK...
'La whaala Jamie has called in the administrators for just 'one of his many companies.
I love Jamie's 15 minute meals although dawdling on them for a few hours,
the boy has good ideas and can...
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The guys in the office here say Jamies restaurant food was crap.
A Mockney and also trying to be an Italian cook ? Identity Crisis much ?
Personally I couldn't stand the creep. Jumping on and off...
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