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Manchester Foodies: December 2013
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Monday, 30 December 2013. Recipe: Perfect Fried Chicken. Making fried chicken should. Be a simple activity: take jointed chicken, dip in some kind of binding agent (milk, buttermilk, egg or plain water), dredge in seasoned flour, then fry in fat. But, in the pursuit of an idealised version, there are always plenty of other questions vying for attention. To brine or not to brine? Skin on or skin off? Which flour or flours? Will plain flour suffice or should you reach for more advanced starches? Is good...
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Manchester Foodies: Recipe: The Manchester Foodies' Big Mac
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Monday, 28 April 2014. Recipe: The Manchester Foodies' Big Mac. They don't look that pretty, but they taste damn good. At work the other day, I found myself listening to the dulcet tones of Aaron Lewis, morosely intoning Staind's “smash” hit It's Been Awhile. And I thought: yes it has Aaron, yes it has. But here I am. Writing once again. Wax on, as it were. So, let’s get back to the task in hand. Here) I wanted to go a bit further. As always my research started with Serious Eats, Modernist Cuisine and He...
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Manchester Foodies: Tickets, Barcelona
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Sunday, 29 June 2014. Eaten there - without, of course, the pain of shelling out a couple of hundred euros in cash. But everyone said, "Go! Cue charming waiter, who delivered the best service we've experienced at a restaurant, and a suggestion he could bag us a table for a couple of night's time. Well, it sort of felt rude to turn down such an offer. And, we found, it had. More or less. The food - for the most part - was pretty perfect. Spherified olives with a skin you could barely. There were the Manch...
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Manchester Foodies: Top Ten Cheap Eats in Manchester
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Wednesday, 9 January 2013. Top Ten Cheap Eats in Manchester. Need I bother with an intro? 1 Yuzu, 39 Faulkner street, China Town. 2 Al Jazeera, 22 Wilmslow road, Rusholme. But it's worth a trip for the kobeda kebab alone. 3 Frankie's Fish Bar, 178 Burton Road, West Didsbury. NOTE: This place has now been overtaken by 'Fishbait'. I'm yet to try their deep fried delights! Fried food (I do try, but at 5'11 it's hard to store them out of his reach). 4 Kyotoya, 28 Copson Street, Withington. A mere £7. Seoul K...
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Manchester Foodies: 5 Cheap Eats in el Born, Barcelona
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Saturday, 19 July 2014. 5 Cheap Eats in el Born, Barcelona. Possibly my favourite 'cheap eat' in Barcelona - we've visited La Paradeta the last two times we've visited the city. On entering, you're encountered with a massive fresh fish counter - think monkfish, lobster, sea snails, oysters, mussels, razor clams, tuna, salmon. there's pretty much everything a fish lover could dream of here. It looks busier - and scarier! Carrer Comercial, 7. Check out our pals, Arepa! Fortunately, there's also "La Mixta",...
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Manchester Foodies: Nick Griffin: A Far-right Foodie
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Saturday, 25 January 2014. Nick Griffin: A Far-right Foodie. An overlooked culinary genius? As a food blogger, I feel it's my job to like food. And I do. But I'm not sure I'd claim that food is an effective cure for the side effects of bad government. Yet that is precisely what bankrupt BNP leader Nick Griffin does in a video cunningly entitled Recipe for beating the Tory blues. So what’s in this dish, apart from diluted anti-Tory sentiment? Maybe because the Mexican population in Britian is miniscule.
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Manchester Foodies: July 2014
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Saturday, 19 July 2014. 5 Cheap Eats in el Born, Barcelona. Possibly my favourite 'cheap eat' in Barcelona - we've visited La Paradeta the last two times we've visited the city. On entering, you're encountered with a massive fresh fish counter - think monkfish, lobster, sea snails, oysters, mussels, razor clams, tuna, salmon. there's pretty much everything a fish lover could dream of here. It looks busier - and scarier! Carrer Comercial, 7. Check out our pals, Arepa! Fortunately, there's also "La Mixta",...
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Manchester Foodies: January 2014
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Saturday, 25 January 2014. Nick Griffin: A Far-right Foodie. An overlooked culinary genius? As a food blogger, I feel it's my job to like food. And I do. But I'm not sure I'd claim that food is an effective cure for the side effects of bad government. Yet that is precisely what bankrupt BNP leader Nick Griffin does in a video cunningly entitled Recipe for beating the Tory blues. So what’s in this dish, apart from diluted anti-Tory sentiment? Maybe because the Mexican population in Britian is miniscule.
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Manchester Foodies: Drunken Butcher: goes posh with Sous Vide
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Saturday, 18 January 2014. Drunken Butcher: goes posh with Sous Vide. Duck breast, confit duck leg, mash and cavolo nero. Whilst Iain Devine, aka Drunken Butcher. Is well-known for his mammoth supper club feasts, encouraging a family style sharing of dinner, he's perhaps less known for 'poncy food'. Just because he doesn't often showcase it though, doesn't mean he isn't a dab hand at it. As ever, all of the dishes were cooked beautifully, and Iain even managed to prove to us all that he can do poncey!
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Manchester Foodies: November 2013
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Thursday, 28 November 2013. I'm pretty sure we all know SoLIta by now. So I'll skip the preamble and get down to it. We were invited by Franco Sotgiu ostensibly to try out the new chicken wings menu. And as such were not asked to pay for any of the below. Let's talk about the good things first. I'd say, without exaggeration, that somewhere in my hypothetical last meal there would be some variation on deep-fried chicken wings. You get the picture. Ain't no thing but a PB and J chicken wing. Be cooked corr...
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