johnstitch

Strawberries and Cream Beans on Toast...done!

How to Cook the perfect Chicken breast from a cheap supermarket cut ?

Since this is the credit crunch and since I am now cooking in a pro kitchen and reading heavyweight books on cooking science I thought I would help you muppets out with a small food blog on budget food.

Chicken breasts for me have always been shit. From childhood I remember my...
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Scrap that emo shit I now have loads on my plate.

I sent an email to a local restaurant asking them to give me some free work. It's a really nice place and it's just round the corner.. I sent the -email a few days ago and I'd figured they didn't want me but I got a lovely call from the owner today and he's...
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Whilst re-writing the structure of my novel, I just came to the conclusion that none of our actions or decisions are products of our own making and everything we do is a reaction to outside environmental influences which we have almost 0 control over.

Which means that you made me write this. So if you could back the fuck off for a minute, cause I...
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Apart from the obvious good points that will still continue into the next year and many to come, 2008 can suck my septic balls quite frankly.

Never has a new year been so welcome.

Roll on 2009 and Happy Hogmanay.

Today I'm brining the goose and making a Christmas pudding.

Tomorrow we are eating

Breakfast:
smoked salmon
Lobster
scallops
king prawns
and
toast

Lunch:
One whole goose
carrots
parsnips
roast potatoes
sprouts cooked with bacon
roasted onions
cranberry and sage stuffing
and
pigs in a blanket
w/port gravy

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Cheese and biscuits
homemade christmas pudding
homemade mince pies

all sloshed down with some Cloudly bay...
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If you ever get rapped, mugged or broken into in London make sure you do it in the city.

I had two shops broken into. One in the city and one in Mayfair. The Mayfair one was broken into first and both had about 50k worth of stock nicked.

After one week the city police had

1. Obtained CCTV footage
2. Done a full forensic...
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Close Call No189,000,101
Subject: Me

So I'm printing of some documents to sign for my companies liquidation. They are rather important to the degree that if done incorrectly I could be fined or even go to jail...so pretty fucking important, I don't think I need to dwell on this.

The paper in my printer looks pretty tatty so I go downstairs to get some more....
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Some of you may know that I've been in a very dark place for the last year or so. I have really hated what I do and wanted more than anything to get away from it. I used to think that rule about bad things happening in three's has some kind of weight behind it, but seeing as bad things happened to me in fives...
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