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The Sourdough Experiment

Sourdough pizza can claim to be the new hipster artisan food thing, but apparently it’s the way Neapolitan have been “doing dough” for yonks, and sourdough itself is a lot older than that.  It’s the traditional way of creating wild yeast with just flour and water used by bakers way before little packets of yeast […]

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Cardiff Food

*More than just Burger & Lobster

Last time I set foot in Burger & Lobster it wasn’t actually Burger & Lobster at all, it was the top floor of Habitat. I’d go in there on a Saturday and plan all the cool things I was going to buy when I finally got a place of my own. Fast forward around fifteen years […]

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Madeleines

Depending on who you are Madeleines will either make you think of Proust… or The Transporter.  Personally they make me think of holidays in France when I was a kid and my mum buying bags of them to keep my brother and I quiet on the long car journey from ferry to campsite.  I only […]

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Hot Dogs with Sweet Potato Fries

A couple of Sundays ago I dropped in on a Man vs Food marathon and suddenly had the most overwhelming craving for Hot Dogs that I’ve ever had in my life at 9pm at night.  Not ideal.  God, even as I type this I can feel it coming back…  I’m not one of those people […]

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Food

Seven Breakfasts

You’ll never catch me skipping out on breakfast.  EVER.  Nor am I one of those breakfast bar/biscuit people (are you crazy?!).  See, my stomach seems to be inhabited by a noisy monster with a beast-like appetite and he’d never let me get away with not feeding him first thing in the morning… and he doesn’t […]