Yvan Seth's Hole in the Internet

Sadly I've not had the time to write much in the last few months, and especially haven't written many food entries. I've started many, but they get stale before I can complete them. I'll try to keep this one short!

Continue reading Pigeon and Potato Salad.

Here's a great soup for these dreary early-spring days. I make soup about once a fortnight, keeping a rolling supply in the fridge and freezer (sometimes supplemented with supermarket soup!) Typically I just pop down to the local greengrocer and work out my soup based on what they have, as is the case with this one.

Continue reading Chunky Beetroot, Celeriac, and Potato Soup.

Busy, busy, busy. I'm having trouble finding the time to write things up these days. The obvious culprit is 2 hours of daily commuting. I don't regret choosing to be a commuter, not in the slightest, but loosing time is always frustrating. Part of my time is spent on the train, so maybe I should get myself some sort of teensy laptop (but with a keyboard I can negotiate) and make some use of the 70 or so usable train minutes. At the moment I use them mostly by reading news/blogs/stuff on my iPhone.

Continue reading For the Love of Food.

Serving the stew

Hare today, gone tomorrow. It is nearly 10 months since I last mentioned hare, for the very simple reason that it is nearly 10 months since I last enjoyed hare. Our wonderful February hare came from Hamblings, back in Ricky – Mr Hambling was the best butcher we've had the pleasure to know thus far. Alas, he packed it in and where his shop was there is now an abominable hut of pizza. We now live in a different town, on the other end of the County (Hertfordshire) with a different butcher. Allingham's is good – not earthy, butchery, Hambling's good – but a pretty damn good butcher all the same. Yes, expensive – but you have to expect to pay above the odds for quality. That said, why pay 20 quid a kilo for OK steak when you can pay 11 for 1.5kg of great hare? That was my position today. It was going to be a brace of pheasant (8.99 quid, after hanging and dressing a couple myself, more on that later, I see this as a pretty good deal) but sitting on the sideboard was a lone, jointed, hare for 10.99 – it was fated.

Continue reading Hare Today.