Around Britain with a Paunch

It’s a time of year I associate with Sylvia Plath’s poem Blackberrying. A lament about a summer gone. It’s one of my favourite poems – alb...

With my mind wondering down a Swedish memory lane, I remembered a couple of vivid soups I made from Mark Hix’s Oyster and Chop House cookboo...

I’ve had some surreal experiences whilst writing this blog – from having the most disturbing massage of all time in India , to eating ortola...

The Flavour Thesaurus is fast becoming my favourite cookery book. When I looked in my fridge and saw half a head of celery and a cauliflowe...

At this time of year the gnarled and dappled roads of Somerset become a multisensory treat. The shadows become tinged with iridescent blue a...

Dingle is a seafood lover’s very soggy dream. Lobsters abound. Mackerel is everywhere. And Pollack is plentiful. We picked up a few of lobst...

I remember my Mum once told me that nettles with flowers on them don't sting. So when I had a friend around I remember showing off and j...

Feeling a bit bored of tinned soups now... so I went for Eat's "Big Bold" option of the day... a chicken pot soup. It was a sl...

Tall thin can. Supposed to make you think it's classy and therefore pay a bit more for it. Do the ingredients come from farmers' mar...

"the chorizo and tomato soup from M&S (tinned) needs alot of attention...far too bland ...shed loads of salt/pepper and some tabasc...

Having lived off soup at work 2 weeks now I am becoming a bit of a Soupaphile. And I love the tinned stuff. It's cheaper. Doesn't ne...

The penultimate tin of soup in my collection. I will have to go and buy a fresh batch of tins! Or better still find time to make my own. Thi...

The Covent Garden soup was good. Particularly the Winter Vegetable. But the French Onion soup from Waitrose in a very plain tin was fantasti...

Today's soup de jour was Baxter's Lobster Bisque. Opening the tin certainly got everyone talking as the deep fishy smell spread arou...

January is a bleak month at the best of times. It's even worse when you've shelled out for a skiing holiday as well. So it's a t...