Monthly Archives: July 2009

Peter Reinhart’s Napoletana Pizza Dough

Both my parents are great cooks and my family really enjoys its food, in fact a good few generations have worked with food in some way (I hope to join them some day). When I was younger my dad regularly made us pizza and I always used to look forward to those meals. He used a mix and I don’t think he ever made his own dough from scratch, but that didn’t matter I loved it. Im not sure why, but he stopped making it and hasn’t made a pizza since I was about 12. Now using a mix wouldn’t seem right to me so when I got the craving recently to make some pizza I had to make my own. Continue reading

Recipe Replication

Up until very recently I had never heard of the Uyghur ethnic group who live mainly in Eastern and Central Asia but recently have come across them twice and most importantly, to me at least, one of them involves food (of course). When I was in NYC, back in May I met up with Robyn and we went to Brighton beach where we ate at Café Kashkar and I had my first Uyghur Food. There was much food eaten and it was really great, lots and lots of lamb, full of spices but especially cumin and since I love cumin I was very happy. One of the dishes we had, Geiro Lagman, looked like I could possibly make it, if only I could find a recipe. Continue reading

London Eats

Some things may no be worthy of a post of their own but are still good eats so here are a few extras from my recent trip to London. First up is a great bagel place in north London. Oddly when I was in NYC I never got round to having a bagel so have no comparison to make except what i’ve eaten in the UK. Beigel Bake is Brick Lane and definitely beats out everything else i’ve had so far. It was chewy with a hint of sweetness and was cheap too at just 30p. We went in the morning so the place wasn’t busy but it opens 24hrs a day and apparently gets lines out the door in late evening. Continue reading