Archives for Food & Drink - Page 9
A little bit of cheese, my dear?
A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed This is that weird time when the climate’s not quite caught up with the changing light. Still, longer days bring that hope of spring and…
Fava me with love
I come from a large, noisy family in which lovingly prepared food is considered the equivalent of a hug. A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed writes When we were growing up,…
Street Innit Tho
The word on the street is street, or if you’re in Wales, araf, but that’s irrelevant. Street food is sick, doesn’t work on two levels, one being that it’s sad…
Girls Gone Greek
In the depths of a harsh Sussex winter, I’m sure we can all agree that what Hastings needs is a slice of golden Mediterranean sunshine. Luckily, over the ‘wine-dark sea’…
Dunk, Sprinkle, Repeat!
Choccy Covered Strawberries WHOLESOME KITCHEN BY HOLLY JOHNSON These delicious, fresh, juicy, chocolate-covered strawberries are simply divine! One of your 5-a-day? Yes indeed! Vegan chocolate? Oh yeah! They are a…
Cashew, Raw Cacao & Rose Bliss Balls
WHOLESOME KITCHEN BY HOLLY JOHNSON These bliss balls are the ultimate healthy treat for all the family. They keep for up to 5 days and they are a breeze to…
Raspberry Razzle Smoothie
WHOLESOME KITCHEN BY HOLLY JOHNSON I’ve been concocting, blending and taste-testing smoothies with a great deal of gusto over the past few years and this is one of my all-time…
Gluten, Dairy & Refined Sugar-free Chocolate Mousse
WHOLESOME KITCHEN BY HOLLY JOHNSON I am delighted to say that each time I’ve made this dreamy dessert for family and friends, it’s gone down an absolute treat! Being free…
Roast Squash, Turmeric & Cumin Soup with Spicy Sweet Potato Croutons
WHOLESOME KITCHEN BY HOLLY JOHNSON This soup is absolutely jam-packed full of beautiful, healing ingredients. Turmeric is an amazing anti-inflammatory and cumin is a natural immune-booster; so essential for the…
DRINKING CULTURE: “This wonderful invention, sir, is called a Sherry Cobbler”
BY MICHAEL SMITH The theme for this week’s food and drinks pages was ‘restorative’ and as Lady Luck would have it, I’d just been experimenting with a veritable balm of…
The Restoration
Here in the land of food, or Foodland, we’re exploring the terrain of restorative food and drink. Think of your body as a broken, out-of-date, worm-holed mansion, desperate for a…
Totally Tropical Teaser & Blueberry Belter Smoothies
WHOLESOME KITCHEN BY HOLLY JOHNSON I love a delicious smoothie to start the day and this fantastic duo contain potent and nutrilicious blend of anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and health-boosting ingredients. Being…
Vegan Drop Pancakes with Creme Fraiche and berries
This a tried and tested recipe that my sister makes regularly for her cross-pollinated veggie and vegan family. She made them for my daughter on her birthday, they wolfed them…
It’s all about you, you, you and a little bit me
What a transition befalls us now, throw away your dried apricot of a January and soak up the lava of a fully enriched Fat Tuesday. It’s all about the restocking…
Chocolate and Cacao – A story of betrayal
BY SOPHIE MEYER How would you feel if your wine was made of less than 50% of grapes? At The C Note Ltd, we believe that cacao is for chocolate…
Holly’s Wholesome Kitchen
BY HOLLY JOHNSON After a spell of ill-health a few years back, I decided to heal my body by nourishing it with nutritious, vibrant and wholesome foods. It’s now my…
DRINKING CULTURE: The Biscuit Town Arriveth
BY MICHAEL SMITH I had planned to write about some nice red wine this week, but then our new keg of Cloudwater Biscuit Town arrived, and as soon as I poured…
An Unhealthy Industry
AN UNHEALTHY INDUSTRY As reported, there is currently a campaign to stop the National Health Service being undermined - to the obvious probable detriment of people’s individual health. A large…
Foraging: Pepper Dulse
Hastings isn't great for seaweeds. On a scale of one to ten for seaweed foraging, it just about manages a two. The main beach actually scores a minus one, because…
Roast White Fish with Fennel and Olives by Renee Lavin
This is one of our favourite ways to enjoy fish. Back home in Sydney I always use Blue Eye Trevalla or Barramundi, but you can substitute any moist, firm, white-fleshed…
West African Fish Stew by Lynda Murray
This recipe has been passed down my Guyanese family for several generations. It has 5 ingredients plus coarse sea salt and olive oil, nothing more and certainly nothing less. This…
Vegan Hastings- Ahead of the curve by Georgie Drake
It’s not exactly news that Veganism is on the rise. With over 542,000 people now following a vegan diet in the UK, that’s a 300% increase in the last…
Something Fishy by Ken Maitland
It’s time for the annual Midsummer Fish Festival here in Hastings, so what sort of wine should we be looking for to bring out the best in the catch? The…
In Vino Veritas? By Ken Maitland
No doubt most of you are by now tired of reading about politics and are currently either celebrating success, drowning sorrows or, like me, soberly wondering what on earth the…
The Reluctant Vegetarian
The sun is out, the BBQ is on and I’m being strong-armed into drinking fizzy alcoholic drinks. Well … that’s if ‘strong-arming’ now means being absolutely delighted at the sight…
New World/Old World… Chaqu’un a son gout
by Tracey Claridge In the 1970s the choice of wines available on the High St was poor. Brands such as German Blue Nun Liebfraumilch, Bulls Blood from Hungary, Mateus Rosé…
Winter Comfort Food
by Meg Cronin This is a very comforting chicken and rice dish with celeriac roasties – just perfect to have on a cold winter’s night. You can prep your own…
Where’s Eddie ?
Turn away your gaze for a second and another corner of St. Leonards has been transformed. The corner of Gardener Way with Grand Parade has had a dying fall for…
Roadkill venison
By Geoff Dann Something a bit different for Christmas In this case I was entertaining a small subsection of the family, only three of whom were carnivores. The meat had…
Ginger Baker
Fans of the Great British Bake Off are challenged to bake their most creative gingerbreads for a competition on Hastings Pier on Saturday 10th December, where finalist Jane Beedle will…
Wild Enoki
It is the end of a second consecutive disappointing autumn for fungi; we are now due a good one next year. But there are still a few wild edibles to be found, including the wild ancestor…
Chocolate Coated Almond Spice Biscuits
These biscuits are very basic, with only a subtle almond flavouring and spiciness. They are perfect to make in December, as the smell of cinnamon and ginger drifting through the…
The Reluctant Vegetarian
I was talking to a friend in none other than the dearly loved or hated Wetherspoons in town, the conversation turned to our favourite foods… My favourite food, hands down is chips. Make mine a…
Claridge’s Wine A Taste of Clarets
Tracey Claridge Bonjour! Every year around the beginning of April samples of the top wines of Bordeaux are shown to the Wine Trade for the first time. The wines are very youthful, having only…
Goan Fish Curry
I cook a lot of curries, but this one stands out from the crowd as a bit special (thankyou Felicity Cloake). It takes quite a lot of ingredients and time,…
Rainbow Ratatouille (vegan)
I’ve been vegetarian for close to forty years. During that time I’ve flirted with veganism but then reverted back to vegetarianism for various reasons. As a family of four we…
Coconutty Butternut Squash with Rice
Megan Cronin The temperature has dropped and even with the heating on, I am cold. Cold, tired and moody – I am dreading the darker months of winter, really dreading…
Claridge’s Wine – Biodynamism – a load of old voodoo?
Tracey Claridge Organic wine in on the increase worldwide. Production is from grapes grown without synthetic fungicides, herbicides or fertilizers. The environment is respected, vines grow in living soil, full…
Route 1066 presents Feast of the Dead
You are invited to share a meal in memory of the fallen in the Battle of 1066. Hastings based artists Dens and Signals are making a seductive performance event about…
Wine not?
Kim Batty discovers Borough Wines Beers and Books It was only a whisper of time ago that going to the America Ground and White Rock area, was surviving the ever-giving…