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tonight’s wings come in a cambodian pepper sauce, vietslaw, and french fries. delicious on another very lazy weekend 🇰🇭

red curry with chicken and bok choy, jasmine rice and that cucumber coriander pickle from david thompson’s thai street food 🇹🇭

back on my VIVA ZAPATA gear. the corn tortillas topped with spicy beans, guac, pico de gallo, tgat smear of chipotle in adobo blitzed with maple syrup and garlic. today’s edition with a few crispy discs of chourico and morcela for a delicious meaty crunch 🇲🇽

actually cold in the LDN today but not quite jacket weather. did get to break out my dehen submariner sweater though. matched with some double kneed duck trousers from mccoy 😊

final breakfast before John Patrick goes back to Denmark 🥹

butter chicken with brown basmati, buttered naan, pickled shallots and kachumber salad <for health and for zing> Johnny’s last supper. he’s off back to Denmark tomorrow 🥺

masala chicken nugz with fries and a super zingy slaw with a very spicy viet dressing heavy on lime juice, lime leaves, bird’s eye chilli, thai basil and coriander. had some classic special sauce on the side beefed with sriracha. absolutely delicious 😊

oh well. it’s not all doom and gloom. keema kottage pie with a champ and sweet potato lid heavily dusted with parmesan. deliciously crunchy green beans on the side #115

last night's wings - i forgot! my 12 year old had restricted eating patterns. he'd only really eat ultra processed chicken nuggets. this is why i do wings so often. he can't get enough of them and i know exactly what's gone in there. he had 14 of them last night along with at least 4 green beans 😊

bean chilli brunch dividend of huevos rancheros. I struggle with portion control on brunch but did my Sunday 10k around the marshes with lovely wife so think this was deserved 😊

pressure cooker roast chicken with champ, chipolata, green beans and viscous jus. I’m having mnml breakfast and lunch at the moment so very much enjoying a proper dinner ☘️

chicken madras with brown basmati, pickled shallots, cucumber raitha and hot buttered naan. really hit the spot. proper spirits lifter with this cold of mine 🇮🇳

back in black 🌚

steering us into fall: that roast chicken with champ, long stem broccoli, calabrian sausage, and a reduced stock/cream/parmesan gravy.

Vietnamese chicken salad in a lime juice chilli garlic dressing with fish sauce, lemon grass, kaffir lime lives, green beans, tons and cucumber.the dressing so dramatic and aggressive no carbs requires. garnished with pounded dried shrimp, roast cashews and thai basil. SUPERB 🇻🇳

pork chips in hot honey and butter in a pan gravy with wee spuds and some runner beans pre chopped by M&S 😊

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

horse and bunny curled up together like an old married couple. they will be nine in November #caturday #tuxedocats 😻

smash tacos so easy, so delicious. mix mince with spices, grated onion, spread onto tortilla and fry 3 mins meat side down, one min after flip. massive crowd pleaser though I can only do two at once. with pickled onions, guac, salsa rosso and a slick of chipotle in adobo smeared on tortilla base 🇲🇽

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"shit creek" is right there.

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a GOTTLE O’ GEER”

razor clams steamed in the rendered fat of chouriço and morcela with garlic, chilli and vinho verde 🇵🇹

roast hake tonight with clams steamed in vinho verde with olives, toms, garlic, chilli. portugal on a plate. fair to say we love it here 😊

john patrick jnr is 16 today. he's in denmark with lizzy and ted settling into teenaklasse. gonna miss him this year but what a lovely young man he is growing into 🇩🇰

bone in sirloin with some green beans for dinner. jobbed the carbs. sauce is pan juices bubbled with butter, garlic, white wine, jelly stock and a splash of worcestershire sauce. banging 😋

i've been looking into reading glasses - it's time - and wanted something that looked like ye olde school NHS specs from my childhood. found some at £16 which seemed steep. imagine my delight when i tracked down a five pack for £20? #speccytwat 🤓

bought tiny packet of lime leaves today. horrified to pay £3.95 for a minuscule portion, now eating a penabg style yellow curry with said lime leaves as garnish. oh my god. like going on holiday. Witt black rice because it’s lovely and some veg in there for health 🇹🇭

back on the huevos rancheros for lunch today. I’m home alone while rest of fam still in denmark. once you’ve made a batch of refried beans and salsa ranchero they are very easy meal for one.

had a volleyball tournament here last night. very good fun 😊

leftover roast pork in a sauce made from reducing a whole pot of stock down to a sticky puddle then blending with crème fraiche, fried shrooms, garlic, onions, patmesan. local new potatoes and akurgsalat fir cut through. denmark on a plate 🇩🇰

went to check out a local smokery and picked up a few bits. smoked mackerel tonight with potato salad and my favourite agurksalat which is a lightly pickled fresh cucumber that cuts through the mineral oil/smoke if the fish and the mayo 🇩🇰

roast pork tonight with fried apples, roast potatoes in that rendered fat, sweetheart cabbage and a big slick of dijon mustard. pleased with this as its always odd cooking in someone else’s kitchen. with home swapping they do tend to come well appointed. miele as far as the eye can see #KERUNCH 🇩🇰

walked the 12 miles to Aars and back to get some bits for dinner. we are staying deep in the Danish countryside and it's so lovely. hardly anyone around. it feels like the whole of the countryside has been curated just for us. didn't see a single person on our walk. salt roast belly pork tonight 🐷 🇩🇰

dinner in the garden tonight. this is the local equivalent of a French red label chicken but it’s from Denmark and corn fed. bacon sausages. they have a delicious honk. I’ve roasted mushrooms and fried up some peppers with red onions and tomatoes for veggies.

hamburgerryg for dinner tonight. a:shout for my death row dinner: smoked loin of pork rolled, poached and then roasted in a bunny mustard glaze. with wee spuds and sweetheart cabbage complete the scene.

had an easy breakfast this morning. sardines in olive oil on a slice of toasted sourdough rubbed with garlic and heaped with leftover guac, chopped toms, scallions. delicious.

turned the jerk chicken leftovers into ‘rasta pasta’ so called because you represent the red, the gold, the green and the black with mixed peppers, spinach, jerk in a run down sauce of reduced coconut milk and scotch bonnet. delicious. dusted with parmesab and lime zest for funk & zing 🇯🇲

huevos rancheros is a great post taco breakfast dividend. guac and bitz already in place. made refried beans and a fresh sakea rancha. also fried up some renegade chorizo to guild tge lily. for me, there is no better breakfast 😋

butter chicken for lovely Lizzy’s birthday dinner. a real family favourite. big birthday choice but we also had this for christmas dinner which is the last time I cooked it. with brown basmati, buttered naan, fresh pickled red onions to cut through the richness. batons of ginger and chilli for 🔥

I cannot stop watching this compelling little film.

made a load of bean quesadilla. cheese mix of moz and cheddar on proper corn tortillas wity a slick of blitzed chipotle and adobo with maple syrup scraped over the base before frying. served with guac, pico de gallo and a pickled red pepper salsa rosso.

first tonnato of the summer. niceoise vibe with the rest of the salad. you basically make a tuna mayonnaise beefed up with anchovies and then drop the dressed veg on top. that umami funk so delicious to mop up with baguette.

greek salad with watermelon on whipped feta. really hit the spot on a sultry evening.

buttermilk brined fried chicken with a very pokey thai 🌶️ dressing. this was so crisp and delicious after a long, sticky day in this sizzling london heatwave 🌞

roasted a chicken with some fat calabrian sausages. easy win.

did bean quesadillas with guacamole and pickled pepper salsa rosso. crispy, succulent, cheesy, chilli, joy.