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The English can cook
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The Underground Restaurant: a supperclub, paladare, anti-restaurant, guerilla dining, pop up, home restaurant.
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Recipe: Union Jack Cake

This cake uses a technique called biscuit joconde. Its not as hard as it looks, and I hope Ive explained it adequately. Here is a step by step how to make it: Ingredients for sponge:85g ground almond...

1 day ago

Travel: supper club and tapas from Seville

I ate so well in Seville. A succession of tapas, each formed as a work of art in miniature, discovered with the aid of Shawn, in backstreet shops, cafés, bars, restaurants. We dribbled over dollhouse...

2 days ago

Recipe: Cherokee blueberry honey cake

I always played the Indian in the game of Cowboys and Indians; in movies, I wanted those underdogs to win. I learnt the evocative names of the tribes: Cherokee, Apache, Comanche, Navajo, Cheyenne, ar...

3 days ago

Recipe: picnic: salad in a jar

I love picnics and salads and jars. Combine all three with this portable layered salad idea. I was trying to make a Jubilee salad (red white and blue) but frustratingly discovered that are there are ...

6 days ago

Recipe: hot smoked mackerel salad with cornflower petals

First smoke your mackerel. Only kidding! But smoking is easier than you think, especially hot smoking. Just buy a little kit or come to one of the Secret Garden Clubs smoking courses. (By the way, th...

23 may 12

Recipe: pesto alla genovese with new potatoes and green beans

In my house we joke about red dinner and green dinner, the words my daughter used when growing up, to describe our most regular meals. Green dinner is, of course, pasta with basil sauce. Pesto sauce ...

22 may 12

Supper Club: Jersey Royals

Buttered Jersey Royal potatoes After my visit to Jersey a few weeks ago I was excited to try out the produce for a supper club dinner at The Underground Restaurant: kidney-shaped firm nutty potatoes,...

20 may 12

Organic Banquet

Laverstoke Farm burrata, which unfortunately I didnt get to taste, they made it specially for me, but I hope my guests liked it. Pic by Bellaphon Toynbee Hall. Pic by Bellaphon. On May Day I was aske...

14 may 12

Travel: West Sweden: murder,crayfish and oysters

Fjallbacka Fika of chocolate cake with blueberry whipped cream The Kings Cleft Breakfast at Fjallbacka Like Midsomer in England, the problem with Fjallbacka, a dozy fishing village in West Sweden, is...

12 may 12

Supper Club: On a stick!

Sushi on a stick with edamame peas! My influence for this meal came from American food blogger Matt Armendariz book On a Stick.  It has pages of inspiring recipes, all of them, naturally, thread...

09 may 12

Travel: Sweden: Butter Viking

In their little red house in the woods, where bobcats and ferrets roam through oak trees, wild flowers and sorrel, Patrik and Zandra make butter for the best restaurants in the world.Owls hoot and th...

28 apr 12

Travel: Sweden: how to make cinnamon buns

What are you doing? asked Tommy.Well, if I say Im sweeping the chimney you wouldnt believe me, as clever as you are said Pippi. As a matter of fact, Im baking. but that will soon be out of the way. y...

26 apr 12

Postcards from the fridge: Georgia and Spain

Inspired by the feasts and food of Georgia and also by some of the tapas I recently had in Seville, last night I created a menu for a Natural Wine dinner at the Large Glass gallery near Caledonian Ro...

25 apr 12

Sherry and tapas in Jerez

Its afternoon, Im in the Sherry hotel and Ive been drinking sherry for 48 hours straight. Hard core eh? However this is not a mumsnet Sherry bender version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for Ive ...

23 apr 12

Recipes: Chocolate aubergines, Pepperonata and Ratatouille

One of the things that I love about the Secret Garden Club is that I can experiment within the bounds of the theme that we have set. This week was all about Mediterranean Vegetables. I made Ratatouil...

15 apr 12

Castaway cook in Sainsburys magazine

I love all that Survivalist stuff!  Heres what my research suggests that you should have in case of apocalypse: Equipment:A pressure cooker Food grade plastic buckets equipment for digging a wel...

13 apr 12

Soap dishes

Jeans signature dish: sausage surprise While soap stars and fading actors have been hogging the cookbook shelves and cooking telly for the last few years, conversely, the popularity of food programmi...

11 apr 12

Egg ideas

 This morning I used the roots that I bought in Georgia to dye my eggs red. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the red egg denotes the blood of Christ. Eggs have much symbolism attached to them: ...

08 apr 12

Sulphur and grape: Georgia Part 3

Outside the sulphur baths The sulphur bath Georgian writing. The word in the middle is crossed out. I get a taxi to the sulphur baths in Tbilisi which cost 5 lari, about £1.50p. Its supposed to cost ...

04 apr 12

We are all Georgian: Day 2

"Id like to toast the country of Georgia, our hosts, the incredible work youve done to preserve the method of natural wine making, the food, the drink" "I want to drink to our guests...

01 apr 12

Georgia on my mind: Day 1

At Gatwick I squinted at the Aerosvit sign. It was a cheapo airline, an offshoot of International Ukrainian Airways. Groan. My cankles cant handle it, I live in fear of DVT. Channelling my dad (in hi...

31 mar 12

Travel and food: Jersey Royals

Jersey Royal potatoes, lightly boiled, paper-thin skins on, then sautéd in butter. Jersey Royals for sale at the roadside Potatoes and vegetables are often sold via Honesty Box;  Farmer Didier h...

29 mar 12

Events coming up at The Underground Restaurant

Secret Garden Club: April 15th:  Med Veg: all those lovely nightshade ve ggies that are so hard to grow in the UK: aubergines and&n bsp;peppers! Then a delicious...

23 mar 12

Conversation, Catherine and the Caribbean

Catherine gave me this rustic nutmeg grater from Dominica. I have a fetish for foreign kitchenalia. Catherine Phipps in the kitchen Prep list My supper club with Catherine Phipps, cooking Dominican f...

20 mar 12

Shopping: Caribbean night

Bright fruity Scotch Bonnet peppers. The only way to tell if they are genuine Scotch Bonnets, according to Catherine Phipps, is by making a tiny incision with your thumb nail (when the stall holder i...

13 mar 12

In Kalinago: a different Caribbean

The food writer Catherine Phipps is the author of next Saturdays meal at The Underground Restaurant. I asked her to write a guest blog post on her time spent as a cook working in Dominica. Here is he...

10 mar 12

Recipe: home made ketchup on egg mcmuffin

I always thought you couldnt beat Heinz tomato ketchup, but this weekend I proved myself wrong. Its a little time consuming but its so worth making your own, even just to prove you can do it. This re...

05 mar 12

Turning Japanese: cooking with Hiromi Stone

Do you go to Asian supermarkets and peer at the ingredients, guessing just how you might make use of them? Ive been doing that for years. It seems Ive been getting it all wrong. Nothing like a lesson...

02 mar 12

Egg Mcmuffins at the late lazy brunch this Sunday

Home-made Egg Mcmuffins Ricotta hotcakes with seared blood oranges and a jug of maple syrup Underground Egg Mcmuffins Marmite on Aga toast Bloody Marys with mustard and horseradish and whatever else ...

01 mar 12 1 person likes this

Secret Garden Club potato dinner

Chocolate Potato Cake with chocolate dipped potato crisp on top (Sorry, had already drunk the cocktail by the time I photographed this.) But...this is Chases Potato vodka. We did a taste test of good...

28 feb 12

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