Camden Market

Regular readers will know that I like visiting markets. The noise, smells and of course the street food.

I haven't been to Camden Market for a while. It never disappoints. Always buzzing. The only problem is what do you eat?

Recipe for Friendship

I am still looking for something that I am good at. I always say that my gift is being able to sleep anywhere at anytime. I am not going to get my name in lights or on a star on a walk of fame, but some people say it is a good gift.

Now Trisha Yearwood is someone who is gifted and gorgeous and can turn her hand to anything from music making to cooking. With all that talent she can do nothing wrong. Ohhh did I say that she is married to Garth Brooks. Well that balances the books slightly. Only joking Garth.

During my visit to Nashville I saw her recipe for friendship. Now that is worth a try. Now where did I put those bags of fun?

Start the day with a Banana

How many bits of fruit do you need a day? It keeps changing. I'm assuming that fruit is still good for you and the government hasn't banned it.

I like my bananas and make the most of eating them. I understand that don't breed so if they catch a disease we might lose them forever. Anyway while they are here lets eats them.

As I have said I am just back from a trip that went from Nashville to Washington DC. 8 hotels in two weeks. From £200 per night suites to £30 motel room that I am sure was the Bates Hotel in another life. All these hotels try something to make them stand out against the others.

This hotel wrote cheery messages on their bananas. This was mine. I think I know what it says but you could read it another way, but anyway thanks it made my breakfast.   

Size Matters

Here at Hate Cuisine we have always said that size does not matter it is the quality that counts. So when I made this cake it needed a tea spoon of baking powder. I did my man look in all the cupboards and couldn't find any. (Apparently we do have some but what is the point of putting things in cupboards behind something else?)

Anyway it was only a small ingredient so leaving it  cannot make that much difference can it?

Well I thought not. But this picture is from my second effort and it includes baking powder.

Toffee Apple and Pecan Cake. Really lovely. I have added the birthday candles so I could give it to my daughter as a birthday cake. Hope she gives me a piece and I am sure the baking powder made all the difference.

Music, Moonshine and Pancakes

Just back from my Nashville to Washington DC road trip. I had my fill of Music, Moonshine and Pancakes.

There is no better way to spend breakfast eating crispy bacon listening to blue grass music with a local tap dancing away to the beat. Ohhh did I say it was sunny?

Bit on the side by Nigella Dawson

You guys from Hate Cuisine are always after tips or something sweet from me.

But no chocolate cake or something creamy from me today. I thought I would offer you a bit on the side.

Maybe not what your after but this spicy apple chutney is sweet with a kick and goes well on the side of a plate of cheese and biscuits. It takes about an hour and a half of simmering and makes the kitchen hot but smells wonderful. There is nothing wrong with heat in the kitchen, in food or importantly in life.

A nice use of the fallen apples in the garden. What was that you said about preferring my pears? Naughty.

Amy Winehouse to Ronnie Scott's

I didn't know what to call this post. I could have called it beer to hot dog, but like my Hate Cuisine colleague said today was about "Culture"

So Culture it was. We made the trip to Camden Lock and tasted some of the street food being served. We decided to go for Chinese from a tin foil container propped up against a dustbin. Life and the food is good and the sun is out on this Friday in London but what about the culture?

Chinese gives you a thirst so we called at the Hawley Arms for a nice beer. You know that saying about that hitting the spot. Well this beer and the others that followed certainly hit the spot. The culture bit is that the Hawley Arms has links with music and Amy Winehouse treated it as her local. So it wasn't just about soaking up the beer it was also soaking up the atmosphere.

Culture waits for no man and the Chinese was now a distant dream. Into London and my first compliment of the day.

I take my complements where I can get them. And I take my Chicago hotdogs where I can get them to. This came from a nice shop near Soho.

Time to step things up in the culture department and finish the night at the world famous Ronnie Scott's jazz club. Cocktails and funky music. Class. 

Hate Cuisine does culture. Now that should have been my title for this page!