I have one of those little ice cream machines where you freeze the bowl and then churn ice cream using a paddle attached to a small electric motor. It’s a fairly simple affair and it produces decent enough results, just not on the scale I really want. A pint of ice cream doesn’t last very [...]
‘Mojito’ means ‘something wet’. It’s a perfect summer drink, long, cool, refreshing and sweet. Unsurprisingly, the mojito has it’s origins in the Caribbean, in Cuba, specifically. Legendary drinker Ernest Hemingway was a fan, and wrote “mi mojito en la Bodeguita”, which translates as ‘my mojito at the Bodeguita’, on the wall of his favourite Havana [...]
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July sees Roundhay Park playing host to the Foodies Festival, the Leeds debut of a major food festival which spans four sites over four weekends this year. The festival is part of the wider Leeds Loves Food festival, which sees events taking place across the city. Despite my low [...]
Markets have been the social and cultural hubs of towns and cities for centuries, millennia, even. They’re meeting places, trading places, places to eat and drink, places that play a central part in the community they serve. The traveler can gauge the temperature and mood of a town by heading straight for its market. Ambling [...]
Fellow Saltaire-based blogger Rob from the excellent HopZine asked me to do a little blog exchange thing with him, and here it is. The premise is simple – I provided a recipe, Rob matched some beer to it. All very civilised. Given the time of year, I chose something to do with asparagus. We’re right [...]