Tag: spice

It seems I'm over Solihull way quite a lot these days. Which is funny because despite being on my doorstep pretty much my whole life, one thing has stopped it from being a regular haunt and that's the fact that from either Redditch, where I grew up,...

Everyone wants to be a street food place these days. They're the cool cats, the trailblazers, the ones on Instagram and Twitter that everyone bigs up. And quite rightly so. It's the street food guys who, in my view, have made the biggest change...

All the cool kids love street food. It's everywhere you look now really (well, apart from in Rugby where I live) and those who live in Birmingham have had plenty of chances to try Indian street food with a whole variety of venues. But while I love a...

I’ve written about curry before, but since you can never have enough curry, I’m going to write a bit more. You’ve heard about my previous Indian outings to Masala Lounge in Rugby, and there are a few others in the town that Mr M and I have...

I'd heard great things about Dishoom, so when my friends suggested we meet there for lunch, it was an added bonus to catching up with some long-lost mates. Modelled on a Bombay Street Cafe, Dishoom serves small dishes – kind of Indian tapas. For...

We've talked before about my lack of confidence in the kitchen, and my decision this year to try and rectify that by learning some cooking skills. Mr M and I started with some knife skills at Recipease, which I've been putting to great use, so when...

When we holidayed in Kalkan, Turkey last year, we tried some wonderful food (like this meal) and had plenty of opportunity to get our teeth round some traditional Turkish dishes. And one of those has become a bit of a family favourite. Menemen...

This weekend we paid a visit to some friends in St Albans. After a few hours of Rugby-watching we had worked up an appetite for a Thai feast. Thai Square is part of a chain, but the St Albans branch does a good job of feeling like an independent...