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Manzanillo – a Caribbean hideaway 27 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
The moment the bus wheezed to a stop and the sound of waves crashing on the beach became clear, I knew that this could the perfect rest stop for a few days. Someone started some gentle reggae up and a...
Turtles, toucans and torrential rain in Tortuguero 13 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
By any measure the first couple of days in the jungles of Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast are almost overwhelming. It doesn’t matter how many times you read about a country two-thirds the size of Scotlan...
Hot and numbing beef slices 7 Jun 2013 | 02:20 pm
Do you ever find yourself in one of those situations where you put things off, and put them off again, finding the idea of them just too daunting? This was one of those times. Hot and numbing beef jus...
Kyazangyi Kaukswe – Chicken coconut curry with rice noodles 20 May 2013 | 01:06 pm
One Saturday morning last month I got a surprise package from Amazon. It was a pretty weighty package. As I hadn’t ordered anything it was with interest and then delight that I opened it to find a lov...
A rich Thai mallard and coconut curry 4 Mar 2013 | 12:54 pm
After the pungent fishiness of last week, this is at the other end of scale entirely. Rich, thick and luscious, it’s a Thai curry that proudly trumpets its Indian influence. I think this is a southern...
An intensely pungent Thai fish curry 25 Feb 2013 | 01:12 pm
This, my friends, is a curry for the brave. And I’m not talking about the heat common to most, if not all, Thai curries. This one is an eye-wateringly intense blitzkrieg of pungency built on a slow bu...
What the horse-meat scandal says about food culture in the UK 18 Feb 2013 | 12:36 pm
Jokes about ’mystery meat’ ready meals are proving to be rather more prescient than we might might be entirely comfortable with. It seems we’ve been suffering from a spate of horse meat lasagnes, spag...
Warm and spicy Indian influenced spinach and courgette 8 Feb 2013 | 01:15 pm
How has the resolution to be more moderate gone? For the most part it’s gone well. I’ve been eating out much less, not indulging in any conspicuously over the top consumption and managed to reduce the...
Everything in moderation 9 Jan 2013 | 12:39 pm
I stopped doing new year resolutions a long time ago. They were too easy to make and too easy to break with little more than a shrug. What’s so special about the turn of one year into another anyway? ...
Butter pheasant curry 30 Dec 2012 | 04:04 pm
Before Xmas, I was sat on the sofa, totally worn out from another evening of painting, or possibly sanding. Still, the physical exhaustion feels kind of good. It’s that thoughtless ache laced with sat...
