Cooking British Food

I have been really interested in trying out British recipes, stuff like cottage pie (it’s not shepherd’s pie unless you use lamb [Gordon Ramsay's is the best ever]), bread pudding, yorkshire puddings, beef wellington, meat pies, finally getting a pork roast down well, and various offal and “unusual” cuts of meat, like oxtail. After watching [...]

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Ramping Up

Sunday morning, heading back south of the river from Bow, I was on the number 78 and crossing Tower Bridge when I looked out the window and had my first I-love-London moment. One day later, walking back over a different bridge at night, bike and boyfriend along this time, I had another. Maybe it’s just [...]

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Chocolate Pudding

I made chocolate pudding (that’s custard to you Brits) from scratch today! I’ve been wanting to make pudding from scratch for a while and decided to make it today on a whim. Since I don’t know what milk looks like just before it boils I had my face up close to the pot, which unnerved [...]

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