Category Archives: Choux Boy
Dinner is served
As reviewed on CNTraveller.com To open one of the most talked about restaurants of the year in Bar Boulud is a tasty hotel trump card; to now fanfare in a second is just plain greedy. But the Mandarin Oriental … Continue reading
Filed under beef, Choux Boy, dessert, duck, Heston, Heston Blumenthal, Restaurant Review, restaurants
Feel the beet: Duck, beetroot and walnut warm salad
Sometimes the Boy does things I’d just never consider to do. Like buy a whole duck because it’s in the reduced price section late on a Thursday night. But you know there is method to his madness. After he had hacked it … Continue reading
Home on the range: The Big Birthday Blow-out
So it’s kind of become traditional that birthdays = Boy cooking like he’s never cooked before (and me losing him for most of the day to Borough market). So on Saturday it was that day, and I was well excited. … Continue reading
Filed under chicken, Choux Boy, fish, home cuisine, main course, recipes, scallops, special occasion cooking, starters, wine
Something fishy up North – Crabshakk, Glasgow
Most of my food memories of my teenage years when I grew up in Glasgow revolve around one place: 24/7 Cafe on Sauchihall Street (which after various incarnations is now called Steak and Cherry, I don’t think it serves steaks … Continue reading
Filed under Choux Boy, crab, fish, Glasgow, oysters, Restaurant Review, restaurants, Scotland
>Steak it to him The BBBBL (Boy’s Big Boozy Birthday Lunch) – Santa Maria del Sur
>Like most of the important dates in our relationship, Choux Boy’s birthday revolves around eating. What are presents but mere things when I could give the him the gift of really great food? Ok, that’s bollocks, treating him to a great … Continue reading
Filed under Battersea, beef, Choux Boy, ice cream, meat, recipes, Restaurant Review, restaurants, special occasion cooking, SW London, wine
>Eat local, live longer! (Ok I made up the last bit…)
>So with Choux Boy’s birthday rolling up this Sunday it means I’m thinking about one thing: no not presents, food. Brunch, cake, dinner: what is a girl to do? Well take a hint is a good start and the Boy … Continue reading
Filed under Balham, Choux Boy, Clapham, Restaurant Review, restaurants, Spain, SW London, Wandsworth
Eat, pray… nah, stuff that, just EAT: Bali
In my travelling tummy experience often the best meal you’ll eat in a country is the simplest. Goo-y creamy mozzerella and you-can-still-taste-the-green-of-the-vine tomatoes in Rome, a bowl of steaming fresh mussels in white wine and skinny just-crisp-enough frites in Bruges, … Continue reading
Filed under Bali, Choux Boy, Indonesia, main course, markets, recipes, street food, travel, vegetables
Dining on Cloud Nine
‘I don’t think I’ve tasted olive oil until this weekend’ Choux Boy’s right. Somehow we find ourselves at the beginning of an eight course tasting menu (well nine we decided it was equivalent to if you counted the olive oil … Continue reading
Filed under Choux Boy, Gordon Ramsay, Italy, restaurants, travel, wine
Can you keep a secret? The Boy’s Chilli Con Carne
Everyone needs a secret ingredient, a recipe passed down from great great grandmothers or at least something that when cooked and friends ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ over it and ask what it is that makes it so goooooood you just smile … Continue reading
V (day) tasty…
Everyone who has ever started a new relationship knows you don’t want to reveal your hand to early on. The Boy and I went on our first date a week before Valentine’s Day and, well, we all know that ol’ … Continue reading
