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New website 21 Jul 2010 | 10:57 pm
You are hereby cordially invited to the shiny new alexrushmer.com site. The time has come to bid farewell to this fair blog and smash a bottle of cava over the bough of my brand new site. It would be ...
5th-17th July: Cooking at The Wild Garlic 3 Jul 2010 | 05:55 am
It is amazing where slightly drunken conversations can lead. In this case the answer is Dorset. To Mat Follas’s Wild Garlic restaurant, to be more specific. A request from the man himself to cover fo...
Doner Kebabs 2 Jul 2010 | 10:56 pm
If there is a food more maligned than the doner kebab then it remains unknown to my palate. Long the butt of jokes and the final resort of a hungry lush as he or she stumbles back home from the pub v...
Rocket and Brazil Nut Pesto 23 Jun 2010 | 02:21 am
We waited weeks for the truly good growing conditions to arrive. A late frost gave us cause for concern and we thought for a few days that we’d lost the entire crop of potatoes - not to mention numero...
Phad Thai and Cooking Like a Pro 16 Jun 2010 | 02:15 am
Professional chefs work differently to home cooks. This is a lesson you learn very early on in a restaurant kitchen. Working a successful service relies on a number of key practices but chief amongst...
Coffee 4 Jun 2010 | 11:09 pm
Confession time. I’m cheating on my beloved. We’ve been together since 2003 so I suppose it could be the famed ‘seven year itch’. Only this is more serious. This isn’t just an illicit fumble in the s...
Summer Food: Tagliatelle with peas and bacon 24 May 2010 | 05:13 am
It’s been a busy fortnight. Book pitches. Meetings. Business plans. Scouting out potential restaurant locations. Press events. Oh, and making 6000 canapés with Dhruv for a hungry City crowd. We jokin...
The Cambridge Menu 5 May 2010 | 03:20 am
The brief from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire was simple: create a dish that sums up the area using the best locally sourced produce available. Cornwall has the pasty, Bedfordshire’s got a clanger and Bury...
Two more ways with nettles 30 Apr 2010 | 09:26 pm
The sheer mettle of nettles. They are taking over the garden: cropping up in the vegetable patch, dominating the borders and creating no-go zones in the middle of the lawn. But revenge comes in many ...
Nettle & Yarg Risotto 24 Apr 2010 | 12:42 am
Nettles don’t immediately spring to mind when thinking of this time of year and the bounty the season offers. Tender milk fed lamb, wild garlic or the first crisp spears of asparagus, perhaps, but ne...
