LLG Food

LLG Food: Pan con Tomate

May 10, 2013 LLG Food

Pan Con Tomate really could be a contender for best breakfast ever. What’s not to like about oven fresh bread, toasted under a grill, drizzled with green olive oil, and heaped with tomato pulp so fresh it sings?

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LLG Food: CAKE, basically…

May 8, 2013 LLG Food

I’m still completely blown away by the wonderful people who helped my cake sale to raise both funds for The MS Trust and support for MS Awareness Week. We made almost £400! A few people have said that as they could not make it, they would like to make a donation to The MS Trust, […]

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Camden Cake Sale for The MS Trust for MS Awareness Week 2013

May 3, 2013 LLG Food

UPDATE: CAKE SALE IS NOW OVER! Do come and say hello if you are in the area. Even if you don’t eat cake, come and say hello. (Lil’sis is designing a donation box!) Foxtons Camden has a wonderful glass fronted event space in the front of their building so you won’t be able to miss […]

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LLG Food: Jersey Royal Potato Season

May 2, 2013 LLG Food

There are some foods that I just longed for when I lived in America. Proper butter. A loaf of soft white sliced — Mother’s Pride, in a perfect world. Toast. Heinz Baked Beans that weren’t rammed full of molasses. Chip shop chips. Ice cold Ribena. Hot Cross Buns. Crème Eggs.

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LLG Food: CAKE CAKE CAKE! I’m planning a charity bake sale this Friday

April 30, 2013 LLG Food

I always try to support MS Awareness Week in a creative way that provokes interest: one year I made so many chocolate cakes that I lost count, & sold them by the slice in the Vogue House boardroom to the Condé Nast staff in aid of The MS Society Cake Bake (doubly joyful: feeding people […]

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LLG Cooks: Pimientos de Padrón Fritos — a recipe

April 21, 2013 LLG Food

ah Pimientos de Padrón Fritos. From Padrón in Galicia in the top north west corner of Spain, they are a trinity of little green peppers, olive oil and sea salt, which takes a matter of minutes to get from a rinse under the tap to being showered with sea salt on the plate via a frying […]

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LLG Travels: Eating Churros & Hot Chocolate in Jerez

April 18, 2013 LLG Food

Confession: I think Tuesday was the first time that I have ever eaten Churros. I’ve eaten funnel cake in the US, which is made in a similar manner, but eating these Spanish ridged salty sweet crispy things had passed me by until Jerez. (I’ve just never found them very appealing, and I don’t particularly like […]

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LLG Cooks: Hot Cross Bun Bread & Butter Pudding, with a Wine Pairing from Tom Harrow at Winechap

April 3, 2013 LLG Food

Last summer in France I found a big bag of hard stale pains aux chocolat hiding in a kitchen cupboard. I cannot abide waste in the kitchen so I cut them into fat slices, popped them in an oven dish with some extra big fat chunks of plain chocolate that I just happened to have […]

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Easter Bank Holiday Lunch: Pear, Blue Cheese & Chicory Salad, Roast Lamb, Orange Cake

April 1, 2013 LLG Food

Being stuck in England for Easter had its bonuses, one of which was being able to drive up the glamorous M1 to my mother’s cottage in Northamptonshire for Easter Bank Holiday lunch today. She was cooking for nine people, so one more wasn’t going to be an issue. I was thrilled as lots of my […]

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LLG Cooks: Miffy Bunny Rabbit Mould & Pancake Pan Set

March 30, 2013 LLG Food

My Miffy pancakes were supposed to be an Easter Sunday surprise breakfast in France for Meriel’s children Lily & Isobel (my goddaughter). But Isobel & Lily have Chicken Pox in Switzerland, and so I am still in London. Eating Miffy pancakes a seul.