The best falafel

Yesterday I had the best falafel I have had in many years. In fact it was so good, I just felt I needed to blog about it and let the world know.
Why was it so good. Well…

The falafel balls were crispy and freshly fried
There were loads of them
I had mine in a pita. My son had a [...]

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Food art

Today I saw an article on the BBC website showing amazing landscape  dioramas created by an Australian photographer called Carl Warner and all out of food.
It reminded me of a great book called “Food Play” by Joost Elffers and Saxton Freyman. The book presents pages of models of faces, people animals and whatnot all made out of fruit and vegetables. [...]

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Don’t talk about it, do it

I was recently having a conversation with my wife about a program we heard on the radio while working together in the kitchen. It was one of those magazine programs with articles about all kinds of subjects and they were having a roll on talking about food.
First there was an article about some Tunisian snack [...]

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Etrog jam recipe

After I wrote a post on making etrog jam last week, I have noticed that a lot of people are coming to this site searching for a recipe for etrog jam. I didn’t give the recipe in my previous post, so here it is.
The things you need are:

4 average sized etrogim
1 smallish lemon
1kg white sugar

First scrape the [...]

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Etrog jam

For the etrog jam recipe, click here.
Last night instead of painting I made some etrog jam.
For those of you who don’t know what an etrog is, it’s a citrus fruit that looks a bit like a bumpy lemon. If you’ve never seen one that won’t really help you because you’re extremely unlikely to ever cross [...]

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