Thursday 1 September 2011
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Best Burger In Town!
Hawksmoor is the sort of restaurant where you go down into the amazing dining room, blown away by the warm gust of meat smell and feel like your gonna bump into tony blair but you dont.
we ate bone marrow with caramelized onions which is a really nice simple combanation
Oysters from devon sweet and sea like
and Kimchi burger with beef dripping chips, spicy gingery kimchi with cheese and a serious earthy burger with crunchy crispy meaty chips.
Between 3 we spent just over £30 each with a bottle of house red
Best Burger in town with or without Tony!
Hawksmoor
Seven Dials
11 Langley St.
London.
WC2H 9JG
020 7856 2154
Crab Apple Jelly
Crab Apples are ripe for the plucking now and contain an amazing amount of pectin which turns it into an banging pink jelly, and is freaking splendid with pork belly.
Ingredients
- 4 kg crab apples
- 1 kg caster sugar
- 1 lemon, juiced
Method
- Wash the apples, remove the blossom heads and cut out any bruised bits. Put in a saucepan, fill with water to cover the apples and bring to the boil. Simmer for 25 minutes until the fruit is soft. Pour the pulp into a jelly bag or several layers of muslin and let drip overnight into a pan beneath. Don’t squeeze the bag, it will cloud the jelly.
- The next day, measure the juice, and combine with sugar at the ratio of 10 parts juice to 7 sugar. Add the lemon, then bring to the boil to dissolve the sugar. Keep at a rolling boil for 35–40 minutes, skimming off the froth regularly. To test, chill a dessertspoon in the fridge. When the jelly is set, it will solidify on the back of the spoon. Pour into warm, sterilised preserving jars and tightly seal while still slightly warm add chillies or rosemary if wanting. Store in a cool dark place.
Sweet Saffron Bread
There is something really indescribable about saffron a little mysterious beauty and put into this bread it becomes a sweet mysterious beauty, bloody marvelous!
Sweet Saffron Bread
Ingredients
- Pinch of saffron threads
- ¾ tsp boiling water
- 350g strong white flour
- 1 tablespoon instant dried yeast
- 60g caster sugar
- ½ tsp fine sea salt
- 30g unsalted butter, softened and broken into small pieces
- 150ml milk, warm
- 50g currants
- cornmeal, for dusting
- 1 free-range egg, beaten with 2 tablespoons of milk
Method
1. Pour boiling water over saffron thread and leave to infuse for 10 minutes
2. Place flour, sugar, yeast, sugar, salt into a large bowl and mix together well. Add the butter and rub through the flour until it has completely combined with the dry ingredients to leave no lumps. Fit Dough Hook onto mixer.
3. Measure the milk into a jug and mix in the saffron infused water. Add the saffron milk to the flour mixture and set the mixer on low speed for 5 minutes. Add currants or sultanas.
OR if you don’t have a dough hook fitted mixer do steps 4 and 5
4. Grease a flat clean work surface and knead the dough for ten seconds to finish with the dough in a smooth ball. Clean and dry the bowl and replace the dough ball into the bowl to rest for ten minutes.
5. Remove the dough and knead again on a greased, flat surface.
6. Shape the dough into a ball. Replace into an oiled bowl, cover with a teatowel and leave for one hour in a warm (not hot) place.
7. Place the dough onto a clean, flat surface and shape into a baton. Cover with a clean cloth and leave for ten minutes.
8. Spiral each end in upon itself to create an elaborate ‘S’ shape.
9. Sprinkle a large baking sheet with cornmeal and place the dough into the centre of the sheet. Cover with a clean cloth and leave for one hour, until the dough has almost doubled in height.
10. Preheat the oven to 210C/410F/Gas 6½. Uncover the loaf and brush with eggwash. Place into the centre of the oven to bake for 25 minutes, then reduce the heat to 190C/375F/Gas 5 and bake for a further 5-10 minutes, until the loaf is golden-brown in colour and sounds hollow when tapped on the under-side.
Friday 26 August 2011
Bun Moment's
From Left to Right - Anchovy bun,Prune Bun and Chocolate Bun
Mussels Leeks and Lava Bread
Bloody Mary.
St. JOHN HOTEL - 1 Leicester St, London, WC2H 7BL
(0)20 3301 8069
Monday 22 August 2011
Saturday 30 July 2011
The Boyle Family
Boyle Family is a group of collaborative artists based in London. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills met in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1957. Joan had studied art and architecture and was bringing up her first son Cameron whilst running her own business. Mark was in the army, writing poetry. After a period of working separately on visual art pieces, they incrementally moved into a natural collaboration - agreeing that art should not exclude anything as a potential subject.
Wherever Mark and Joan lived became their studio, so it seemed natural and necessary that friends and family be co-opted to help whenever there was a big show going off or an event to put on. From very early on, Mark and Joan’s children, Sebastian and Georgia, went around the studio, doing bits here and there, gradually getting more deeply involved: going on working trips, expeditions, helping to finalise and hang exhibitions. This co-creational approach also was applied to the evolution of the work itself and led to innovative and collaborative partnerships with many artists, performers, musicians, filmmakers and dancers, notably Jimi Hendrix and the psychedelic jazz-rock pioneers Soft Machine.
Originally the work went under Mark Boyle's name, largely because Mark and Joan were more concerned with making their work than attempting to fight the stereotype that artists were solo and usually male. Labels never mattered to them - it was the work that was important, not the marketing, image or personal recognition. Taking the view that if the art world wanted to believe in obsessed, lone male artists starving in their studios, they could present their work in a way that would fit. However, as their work became widely known, and at the same time the artistic stereotype began to broaden, they began to exhibit as Mark Boyle and Joan Hills. As adults, Sebastian and Georgia both opted to remain part of the team and since 1985 the four of them have exhibited as Boyle Family. Following the death of Mark Boyle in May 2005, Boyle Family continues to work and exhibit internationally, and to progress the execution of their best known work, the huge global World Series.
Boyle Family aims to make art that does not exclude anything as a potential subject. Over the years, subjects have included: earth, air, fire and water; animals, vegetables, minerals; insects, reptiles, water creatures; human beings and societies; physical elements and fluids from the human body. The media used have included performances and events; films and projections; sound recordings; photography; electron-microphotography; drawing; assemblage; painting; sculpture and installation.
Boyle Family is best known for the earth studies: three dimensional casts of the surface of the earth which record and document random sites with great accuracy. These works combine real material from the site (stones, dust, twigs etc) with paint and resins, preserving the form of the ground to make unique one-off pieces that suggest and offer new interpretations of the environment, combining a powerful conceptual framework with a strong and haunting physical and visual presence.
These ideas are strongly enshrined in the major Boyle Family work, World Series, initiated in 1968 as part of the exhibition Journey to the Surface of the Earth at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London. The World Series has been developed over the past forty years alongside a number of parallel and related series and projects including: the London Series; Tidal Series; Thaw Series; Japan Series. Each of these groups of work has involved various random selection techniques to isolate a rectangle of the Earth's surface. In the case of the World Series 1000 sites were chosen at random by visitors to the artists’ studio and the ICA exhibition. Participants were blindfolded and either threw a dart or fired an air rifle at an unseen wall-sized map of the world, which now forms part of the work itself.
This random selection serves several purposes: nothing is excluded as a potential subject; the particular is chosen to serve as a representative of the whole; the subjective role of the artists and creators is re-designated to that of ‘presenters’. Boyle Family seeks to present a version of reality as objectively and truthfully as possible, calling this process ‘motiveless appraisal’.
Once the random selection of subject has been made, the artists recreate the site in a fixed and permanent form as a painted fibreglass relief. They recognise that each work is in some respect necessarily flawed because the selections can never be truly random and that it is impossible to eliminate themselves and their own subjective influences. They attempt to present a slice of reality as they found it at the moment of selection, but no matter how good the re-creation, it is still a re-creation and only an approximation of reality. Boyle Family know that it is impossible to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but in their work they try to isolate and reduce randomly chosen elements to as truthful an approximation as is within their power.
Their search is to find out if it is possible for an individual to free him/herself from conditioning and prejudice. To see if it is possible to look at the world, or a small part of it, without being reminded consciously or unconsciously of myths and legends, art of the past or present, art and myths of other cultures. ‘We also want to be able to look at anything without discovering in it our mothers' womb, our lovers' thighs, the possibility of handsome profit or even the makings of an effective work of art. We don't want to find in it memories of places where we suffered joy and anguish or tenderness or laughter. We want to see without motive and without reminiscence this cliff, this street, this field, this rock, this earth.’(1)
Boyle Family has exhibited in galleries and museums world-wide, including representing Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1978 and the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1987. Their exhibition ‘Beyond Image’ at London's Hayward Gallery in 1986 attracted 176,000 visitors. Their work is represented in many private and public collections with major works in forty museum collections worldwide, including Tate Britain; Stuttgart Staatsgalerie; Los Angeles County Museum; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; Museum Moderna Kunst Vienna.
Saturday 23 July 2011
Monday 21 March 2011
Friday 11 February 2011
Chateau Kefraya
Well nice Lebanese wine, notes of almonds from the Vallee De La Bekaa
£21 from Theatre of Wine
Thursday 3 February 2011
Hestons Meat Fruit
Meat fruit. What you're served looks to all intents and purposes like a glossy tangerine, complete with brilliant green stalk and leaves. You break the skin – actually, mandarin jelly of great refinement - to find perfect chicken liver parfait, subtle, supple, rich in the way that millionaires used to be rich, with elegant and understated good taste.
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Thursday 20 January 2011
RAMBOMIXTAPE!!!!!!!!
Other Mixtapes Coming Soon - Arnold "Terminator Governor" Schwarzenegger and Bruce "Fucking" Lee
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