Cuizine

Click here if you missed part one. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Christmas 2011 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – [...]

The holiday season is the most feast-laden part of the year and thus, it is my favorite time of the year. I couldn’t really give a shit about getting some presents at Christmas, and I straight up just don’t go out on New Years Eve because its so overly hyped that it always ends up [...]

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. Tracy Island. Buzz Lightyear. A great Christmas tradition is the goose chase for that elusive gift. This year I kind of experienced that tradition, but if I am Arnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle All The Way then my chase was not a Turboman figure for my son to make up for being [...]

OK, so it’s pretty close to Christmas and you’re lacking some presents. Did you forget? Are you too lazy/disorganised? Or are you just too poor/cheap? Doesn’t matter, the solution is home made truffles!* They seem really gourmet and lovingly crafted but they’re actually quite cheap (if you choose your nice dark chocolate based on what [...]

You’ve promised to make breakfast on Christmas day, purely to avoid having to have anything to do with cooking Christmas dinner. The upside of this is that it frees you to get on with the serious business of drinking, opening presents, spending quality time with the family and more drinking. The downside is when you [...]

In the hottest English October in recorded history (my thermometer / Twister melted in less than five minutes), Benjamin Savva and I held a cookery class for Belly Kids at Beach Gallery. We turned up drunk at the gallery from a couple of bottles of white wine and coke; our own bad mix (the white [...]

I started making my own fried chicken when I was living in East London and feeling very homesick. I was far far away from anything resembling collard greens, and no one in England kept jars of bacon drippings by their stove. But to be honest I didnt eat all that much fried chicken growing up [...]

Hello again. More Mexican snacks for the lazy sunday. Today’s will be even lazier and even rawer than the last. This recipe is all about taste, all about the quality of produce, and most of all revolves around personal preference. AUTHENTIC GUACAMOLE 1/2 of a jalapeno chile – diced 1/4 of regular white or yellow [...]

It seems that I spend most my free time on Sunday tinkering around my stovetop. Plus I seem to always end up making sauces to put away for the rest of the week on most Sundays. Yesterday was no exception. Being the sometimes homesick Yank that I am I always think about drinking mexican beer [...]

Being dysfunctional, contrary types, rather than actually write anything vaguely Christmassy before or even during the Christmas period, we thought we’d do it after. Perhaps this delicious, simple recipe will alleviate the January gloom and make you think of happier times, (like when you were so drunk you actually enjoyed eating turkey.) You may remember [...]