Big Journeys into Home Food
Giles Duley lives in St Leonards when he isn’t travelling the world as a photographer and writer, capturing the stories of conflict and its aftermath. But his medium isn’t only a camera lens. Despite losing two legs and an arm…
Hastings Pizza Guide
It’s a Hastings pizza party and you’re all invited (socially distanced and wearing masks of course!) PICTURE: Pasha Milburn Tommy’s Pizzeria : tommyspizzeria1Where: 28 Norman Road, St Leonard’s-on-Sea. Open: Tuesday-Saturday 12-10pm, (deliveries 4pm-9pm) and Sunday 12-9pm (but not for delivery)Price for…
Everyday Pizza dough recipe
This pizza dough recipe uses only a few ingredients and, when made ahead of time, actually yields a more flavourful, chewier crust. If making ahead, just keep in the fridge until ready to use (but not more than three days)…
Six go to The Hempist
Six strolled down to the front to have lunch: one vegan, one pescatarian and four omnivores. Normally that would mean the bad joke of going to an omni-restaurant and ‘allowing’ the vegan to choose the plant-based option tucked in a…
Smokey salt
Smoke adds an indefinable magic to whatever food it touches, taking us back to the origins of cooking and the heat and flicker of flames. In Hastings we are fortunate to have Sonny Elliott at Rock-A-Nore Fisheries, whose skilful application…
BUY LOCAL: New ways of eating with Nicki’s Kitchen delivery
“Covid gave us the time to perfect really good dishes,” says Nicki Davidson, of ‘Nicki’s Kitchen’. “We could take a whole chicken and make stock from it and experiment with preserving things. Lockdown gave us that extra hour or two…
Bangin’ Beats and Tasty Meats
Tommy’s Bar & Q @ The Source Where? Outside in the Source Park (near White Rock) with a hip industrial vibe. Tables are socially distanced, hand-sanitiser is ample, and waiters disinfect tables/chairs after guests leave. Currently open Wed to Sat…
The Pub Shed
By Hattie Ellis Lockdown. What did you do? Sculptor-carpenter Pat Seaman and designer Hattie Spice used reclaimed materials to make The Dragon’s Rest, a pub-shed complete with beer garden for their St Leonards ; These two freelancers, suddenly faced with…
Biryani Bonanza
While the recent lockdown may have been challenging at times, it also enabled many to explore new cooking projects (sourdough anyone?) For Lydia Rehana, lockdown gave her the opportunity to raise money for a vital cause by cooking a dish…
Nicky’s Kombucha Guide
Kombucha is a fermented, mildly fizzy and slightly tangy drink made from sweetened tea and a culture known as a ‘scoby’. Recipe by Nicky Arnold (adapted from The Culture Club written by friend and ‘super fermentista’ Dearbhla Reynolds). KombuchaPICTURE: klara-avsenik/Unsplash…