I get an enormous sense of achievement when I clear my fridge without throwing anything away. This not only includes using up food, but also packaging: to the great amusement of my less thrifty other half, I like to use wrappers to use in lieu of greased proof paper when baking cakes. All this has [...]
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August 12, 2008
What I love no. 33: Toffee Crumble
It’s the new Maxibon: toffee ice cream, surrounded by different toffee ice cream, coated in toffee and studded with toffee crumbly bits.
The word toffee no longer makes sense. I’ve written it too many times.
I wonder if I am an ice cream snob. You know, like when people stop liking a band the minute their records [...]
August 12, 2008
What I love no. 32: Grovesnor
You know sometimes you’re out dancing and maybe drinking quite a bit and everything’s a bit of a blur, but then the DJ plays a song that blows your mind and then the next morning even though most of the night is a bit muddy you can’t stop thinking about that song and before you [...]
July 6, 2008
What I love no. 31: The Supersizers Go…
This ought to be the stupidest programme ever, and yet, and yet. One comedian (spindly Sue Perkins) and one journalist (Giles Coren, restaurant critic of the Times and one-time winner of the Bad Sex In Fiction award for a line in his 2005 novel about a penis which leapt around “like a shower dropped in [...]
July 6, 2008
What I love no. 30: Lahmacun
Sometimes known as a Turkish pizza, this flatbread-topped-with-tomato-and-minced-lamb is my favourite on-the-way-home treat. So cheap! So tasty! Almost healthy! Last night it was my friend Bex’s birthday, and after jumping around on a sofa in the Jazz Bar then wondering what all the fuss was really about at the too-cool-for-us-really Disco Bloodbath, we needed feeding. [...]
June 13, 2008
What I love no. 29: Bloody Caesars
A cocktail containing clam broth and accessorised with a stick of celery ought to be gross, but I do love a Bloody Caesar. It’s a Canadian thing: vodka, clamato juice (a blend of tomato juice and the aforementioned clam juice), Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, served on the rocks in a glass rimmed with celery salt. [...]
June 13, 2008
What I love no. 28: The Dyson Airblade hand dryer
Normally I am too impatient to bother drying my hands using a machine, preferring either the back of my jeans or, if available, a wad of paper towels. Then I went to Gatwick airport and discovered the Dyson Airblade. Finally, a hand dryer that works properly! You put your hands in the slot and BOOM! [...]
May 20, 2008
What I love no. 27: A pint of prawns
So much more fun than a boring old bowl full. My favourite place to get a pint of prawns used to be the Holly Bush in Hampstead, but when I went there last we were served our prawns on a platter. A blatant breach of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 I think you’ll agree – we complained [...]
May 20, 2008
What I love no. 26: Weird things other people do that they think are normal
The other day, I found myself, for entirely innocent reasons, having a shower in a colleague’s flat. While doing so, I saw that he kept his toothbrush and toothpaste in the shower, alongside his shampoo and soap, rather than by the sink. When I had got dressed, I asked him whether he cleaned his teeth [...]
