Cooking

Karate Chop

Karate Chop

The alternative way to slice vegetable.

Wealthy Bakers

Wealthy Bakers

Yesterday my mother told her friends that I was rich. My little daughter had said to her that 'mummy was making pancakes', which she translated as 'mummy is making packets.' !!

Lemongrass Beef

Lemongrass Beef

This is another one of those comforter dishes, and was made in commiseration of the (anticipated) Scotland defeat by Ireland in the Six-nations Rugby tournament yesterday. Scotland have gloriously lost every single match so far, and are on their way to collecting 'The Wooden Spoon'. Perhaps they may redeem themselves in the Calcutta Cup, the Six-Nation match between Scotland and 'the auld enemy' England, in March.

Athenian Lamb Hotpot

Athenian Lamb Hotpot

This dish is comfort food in anticipation that Scotland will loose (again) against Ireland in the Six-Nations Rugby tournament this afternoon.

Steak and Onions

Steak and Onions

This weekend I had one and a half surprise guests who brought with them offerings of meat; so I thought I'd share this lovely picture of my medium-rare sirloin steak with onions, pepper sauce, rice, spinach and avacado. Unfortunately in my mind this looks more like entrails on top of entrails, but I can assure you it tasted lovely. We fried the steak with seasoning and a little red wine; the pepper sauce was not home-made, but a half a ready-made packet that I had floating around in the back of my cupboard.

Lasagne

Lasagne

This dish was cooked yesterday evening for a fellow artist and occasional co-conspiritor on projects. It was served with garlic bread, rocket leaves, avacado and washed down with a crisp Pinot Grigio. Following our meal we watched 'The City of Lost Children' a film about an evil scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams. The film was directed by Jeunet of Delicatessen fame, and as you would imagine, was a darkly cinematic experience.

Tafelspitz and Pumpkin

Tafelspitz and Pumpkin

The meat on the left is Tafelspitz for which my dictionary only gives a translation of prime beef boiled. This you can find everywhere in eastern Austria. But the more important part is the pumpkin stew here as a side dish which makes a good main meal by itself. This style of Styrian Pumpkin I love and it was cooked for me by my mother on 45th birthday.
I didn't have the chance to ask her for a detailed recipe, so for the time being take this one

Food for Thought: Greek Lentil and Olive Oil Soup

Background to the meal: A soup I am cooking tonight for Furtherfield mob. It's a soft exchange for being their house guest in their flat in Haringey, London--and for FF allowing me to interview them for my PhD research.

Furtherfield are a core of 2 - Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett - who for the past 10 or 11 years have established and nurtured networked art and cultural experimentation - via online and offline playful participatory structures.

Some of their projects are documented here:

http://furtherfield.org

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