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17 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by Rachel @cookeryaddiction in Cooking at home

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Words don’t do this recipe justice – just cook it and eat it and LOVE it! Thanks Emily!

Chilli Marmalade

I’m a massive fan of meat. Every which way: oven-roasted, pan-seared, slow-cooked, fast-cooked, rare-bloody-gorgeousness and blackened charred sticky edges. Mostly, I like my meat barbequed.

On my quest for the perfect barbequed meat feast, I paid a visit to London’s most popular barbeque joint, Pitt Cue Co in Soho a week ago and inhaled the most succulent pulled pork I’d ever tasted.

So, I decided to have a go at some pulled pork in my own kitchen, but approached my recipe from a different angle – by firing up my trusty slow-cooker…

Slow-cooker pulled pork

Before I embarked on my great homemade pulled pork adventure, I researched various slow-cooker pulled pork recipes online and realised that the best approach was by ‘feel’, and a top-notch homemade barbeque sauce. The best homemade barbeque sauce follows the principle of balancing salty, sweet, sharp and spice, so I gathered my arsenal of pantry sauces – worstershire sauce, Firkin hot…

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Out to eat – twice in a week!

16 Sunday Sep 2012

Posted by Rachel @cookeryaddiction in Eating out, Reviews

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This is virtually unheard of! Gone are the days we used to eat out three times a week, now we have a 6 year old, and I work extreme shifts, we generally eat out (on our own) about once every three months. We had a babysitter in the form of my Mum last week while we went out for a Greek meal, and while she was here, my son managed to twist her arm into letting him sleep at her house last night.

So of course, it was rude not to go out again, wasn’t it? We decided on Wahaca, “Mexican Market Eating” at Westfield Stratford. The meal was very good, we would definitely return. We enjoyed quesadillas with potato and chorizo filling, chicken tostadas (crisp tortillas), chicken taquitos (corn tortillas), steak tacos, and a very interesting pot of “green rice”, which was rice, “blitzed with coriander, onion and garlic”.

Quite honestly though, the pièce de résistance  for me, unusually, was the dessert. I chose ‘churros y chocolate’ Mexican doughnuts with a rich chocolate sauce to dip them in. Oh. My. Goodness. I had to share them with my husband, so I shall of course be returning, alone, SOON. The photo below says it all really.

Churros y Chocolate

Wahaca was good value, we had five sharing plates, two desserts, a beer and a glass of wine (which came in a tumbler, I didn’t like that really!), and it was £34. We will definitely be returning. Branches at Westfield Stratford City, Westfield London, Covent Garden, Canary Wharf, Bluewater, Soho, Charlotte Street, London South Bank.

ClemenGold fruit review

13 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Rachel @cookeryaddiction in General, Reviews

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clementines, food

Before we went off to Cornwall in mid-August, I was contacted via Twitter by a company called ClemenGold, to ask if I would like to take delivery of, eat, and then review some of their South African citrus fruit. Free food you say? Ah, go on….

The very next day, a box of ClemenGold the size of a small country arrived. My son and I actually counted them, and there were 198! What on earth was I going to do with 198 clementines? Well my son got stuck straight in and we were immediately down to 195, as he declared them “Yummy!”. We put some in the fridge, gave some to the neighbours and my Mum, and then packed as many as we could in with our camping stores, as we were going the very next day.

ClemenGold

 

Well, the boy was right, they were simply yummy and delicious! Easy peelers, beautifully soft and juicy, almost totally seedless and lovely and sweet.

Thank you to Michelle at ClemenGold for sending them to me, we all enjoyed them very much. The ones in the fridge kept fresh until after we returned from camping, so we had plenty more to enjoy.

Hello again!

13 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Rachel @cookeryaddiction in Eating out, General

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cream tea, travel

Hello! Finally managed to wrestle the PC away from my son, he seemed positively glued to it over the Summer, but now he’s back at school and it’s all mine again. I will however investigate WordPress for iPad, that could make things a lot easier!

We spent a few days in Cornwall in August, but the weather wasn’t really on our side. Some absolutely gorgeous days were followed by terrible nights filled with rain and howling wind. Not ideal when you’re in a tent…. We did have a lovely cream tea in Padstow though, that made us all feel better!

Cream Tea but with apple juice!

Before we went away, I was asked to taste test some lovely clementines, review coming up in the next post!

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