Edible flowers, herbs and micro greens growing on the set of Market to Table Season 2***
DIARY: Flower petals can give a great lift to our food, whether used purely decoratively or to enhance the flavour of the dish, as long as they are used judiciously and not just to enhance the chef’s ego.
RECIPE: Curried carrot soup.
This delicious stuffed eggplant recipe appears in my new e-book Market to Table: The Cookbook, now available on Amazon, i-Tunes and Lulu.com, but here on Gentleman’s Portion for the first time. Continue reading “IMAM BAYALDI, THE SWOONING IMAM”
Britannia Dining Room on QM2
She is possibly the greatest ocean liner ever built.
She’s the Queen Mary 2, the only liner built since the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1969, and the last ship still offering a regular schedule of trans-Atlantic crossings. And she may well be the last true ocean liner to ever grace the Seven Seas. Continue reading “LAST OF THE GREAT LINERS”
Your hard-working tippler with Lionel’s treasure display
Jim Walker continues his wine adventures in France by revealing that every once in a while he discovers a ‘new’ winery that seemed almost too good to be true. Same thing goes for places to have lunch.
Gentlemans Portion 