The SuffolkEater

Swedish Lunch at “The Bell”

11/02/2016 By The Editor

Jonny Nicolson, The Bell at Sax’s ebullient and enterprising chef-proprietor seems to add and more strings to his culinary bow as the weeks go by. Among a variety of events and occasions he has organised in his tenure is a themed monthly lunch. To date, among others, we have sampled Lebanese, Greek, French and Swiss […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Eating Out, The SuffolkEater Tagged With: Jansson's Temptation

The Editor’s Apricot Tart

24/04/2012 By The Editor

Unlike the English gentleman of the 19th century who always kept an apricot tart on his sideboard every day of the year, I make this about once a month. Actually, I assemble it, because it is a joint venture of my wife and me – she makes the pastry and the crème pâtissière, whilst I […]

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Filed Under: UK Recipes Tagged With: Desserts, Tarts and Flans

The Great British Banger

04/11/2013 By The Editor

I don’t know of a country that doesn’t have its own kind of sausages. As with mince, sausages are often created because the basic meat ingredient would be tough if grilled or roasted in the piece. So it is minced up, flavoured and put into a casing. I am old enough to remember when “Austerity” […]

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Filed Under: Recipes, UK Recipes Tagged With: Emmerdale Farm Shop, Suasages

The Plough & Sail, Snape Maltings.

21/05/2012 By The Editor

When we heard that twin brother chefs Alex (ex-Regatta, Aldeburgh) and Oliver Burnside (formerly Chef at the Crown & Castle, Orford) are now running things, we were intrigued. It ought to be good my wife and I thought We hadn’t been since May 2010, following a snack lunch of considerable poorness. We said then: […]

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Filed Under: Eating Out

THE REAL TEA LADY

01/05/2012 By The Editor

OP5 - Orange Pekoe Exterior with Marianna j Achilleas

Looking on-line to buy Ceylon tea, I found a lovely website which turned out to be a fascinating story of the enterprise of some young second generation British Cypriots…. Time for Tea….with Some Good Food A couple of hundred years ago, if you’d been able to take a balloon flight following the River Thames westwards […]

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Filed Under: Eating Out