Erin’s Eats
She’s salty, but not about food
Cobbles Kitchen & Deli: a birthday, brunch and the hard bagel?
Back when September was reigning and the sun was still shining (rather than setting at 5:30) we took a trip to the wonderful Ogmore-by-sea. It was my legendary mum a.k.a. Gale’s birthday. With the family and new puppy in tow we walked to build up an appetite for the hotly anticipated day’s brunch at Cobbles Kitchen…
Pieces from the Pantry .4
Sweetcorn While it is fair to say that lockdown has eased considerably since my last Pieces from the Pantry instalment, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t still be trying to use the food we already have tucked away in our cupboards. Whether you want to discourage waste or be creative with timeless tinned ingredients here…
La Pantera: tequila, tacos and a good time for the taste buds
Are you in need of some serious taco time? Well I know just the place. Tucked away on Quay Street between St Mary Street and Westgate Street resides La Pantera, a self-proclaimed mezcal and street food back street cantina, offering up some seriously tasty tacos with some not so serious lashings of tequila . This…
The Lazy Leek: adventure, assumptions and plant-based burgers
If you’re looking for a great, pretty guilt free takeaway then look no further than The Lazy Leek’s wooden clad shack in Cardiff Pontcanna’s King’s Road Yard, a Londonesque cluster of small independently owned cafés, restaurants and businesses. It offers a unique community feel only found in small city centre residential areas and their high…
Is British food really that bad? Pete Brown defends its honour in ‘Pie Fidelity: In Defence of British Food’
Have you ever thought of Britain’s national dishes of fish and chips, a roast dinner or a cooked breakfast as mediocre and just a plain old bit of stodge? See my review below of Pete Brown’s ‘Pie Fidelity’ in which he tries to argue that British food is much more than this and even something to be…
Pieces from the Pantry .3
Coconut milk While coconuts grow in hot, humid and sandy climates it is not unusual now to see tins of their luscious creamy milk on the pantry shelves of rainier climes like the UK. Surely coconut milk can be said to be a modern-day store cupboard staple, or at least it is one of mine.…
Bring the katsu curry to your kitchens
Are you missing that Wagamama feeling? Are you getting cravings for their banging bang bang cauliflower? Are you in need of some beautiful steamed buns (I know what you’re thinking so get your mind out of the gutter)? Well, have no fear as they seem to have us covered having released their recipes for the…
Pieces from the Pantry .2
Pasta Pantry pasta creations seem to be a big hit at the moment on the social medias so I thought I’d hop onto the trend train and give you my take. While I don’t shun any kind of dried pasta creation, even the humble student staple of pesto pasta or to throw it back even…
Pieces from the Pantry .1
Noodles Welcome to my new series on the blog: Pieces from the Pantry. During lockdown and isolation, it seems more and more of us have been rediscovering, or maybe even discovering for the first time, the kitchen. While there are many reasons for this sudden desire for us all to become culinary maestros (boredom, restaurant…
The benefits of meal planning and prepping
Prep yourself before you wreck yourself. Are you, like me, continually asking the ever-important question: what’s for tea? If so, I may have the solutions to our mind’s constant foody diversion: meal planning and prepping. Meal planning. This process can be defined as deciding what’s for each day’s breakfast, lunch and dinner for the week and…
My mega Mother’s Day Meal
This Mother’s Day, being unable to go to a restaurant because of the virus plaguing the world as we speak, I decided to cook the mega-est Mother’s Day Meal I could think of. And, why not learn some cool new cooking skills along the way? Of course, none of this could have been possible without…
Pimp that pizza for your Friday night dinner
Has your Friday night pizza for dinner become a boring event? Are you tired of the plain old usual pizza toppings? Then look no further than my guide to pimp that pizza. Everybody loves the old Italian reliables of Margherita or pepperoni atop a crisp golden pizza dough base. Or, maybe you are more of…
Simple fish dishes: the ideal midweek meal
When it is midweek and your struggling for some food inspiration for the night’s meal I urge you to look no further than a simple fish dish. Usually an easy fish dinner takes the form of some frozen Birds Eye or Young’s (other brands are available) battered cod fillets and chips bunged in the oven…
It’s time to take a stand… for tapas
Classic Spanish tapas has always been a family favourite. With every Lawler birthday celebrated at the now long gone but dearly missed and forever in our hearts La Tasca in the Cardiff Brewery Quarter. We would consistently order so many dishes that they would be brought to our table on a gigantic tray and would…
Love a Chinese but hail the homemade? Kwoklyn Wan offers the answers in his ‘Chinese Takeaway Cookbook’
Here’s a review of Kwoklyn Wan (yes, Gok Wan’s brother’s) recipes for your takeaway favourites, with no MSG in sight. Flipping through the pages of this cookbook you spot the absolute classics of everyone’s favourite takeaway (Chinese right?) and its iconic pamphlet style menu. Queue recipes for prawn toasts, beef and green pepper in black…
Cabbage: A redefining of the unloved Christmas vegetable
After the festive holiday season some of us may have some sad leftover vegetables hanging around in the fridge. Cabbage and Brussel sprouts seem to always take up this space in the post-Christmas lunch fridge, never the favourites on the Christmas roast dinner plate. Well, I am here to tell you: no more. These sad…
She’s salty, but not about food
A chance to tell you why the hell I’ve constructed yet another food blog to send into the vast webasphere. Food organises all of our lives; our minds (or at least mine) are consumed by questions of “when will I eat lunch?”, “what do I fancy for dinner?” or “what’s in the fridge”? It is…
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