Posted in June 2007

No Post!

Source: Kim Mutton
Friday 29th June 2007, 11:43am

Missing post? Shhhh - It's all gone quiet over at Jamies Beach Cafe.

During a break in the pastivalities last weekend I was reminded of my archived jibes at the Number Fifteen restaurant and their lack of response to what I considered to be a just request - Pasties on the Menu Please

I've just checked the menu again over at Fifteen Corny and see that not only the reluctance to include Cornwall's finest remains but that the last post on their blog is way back in April. Shame on them. I've expressed my concerns over at Jamies Forum - http://forum.jamieoliver.com/viewtopic.php?pid=209906#p209906.

I put it to you the Marketeers - should I continue to put pasty pressure on and push for at very least some recognition of the issue, or, accept that Cornwall is to slip into a culinery swamp of fockyettas, drizzle and goats cheese. Goats Cheese on abed of twigs! - I ask you - and this is in Cornwall - the dirty, sure footed, well horned little bleaters.

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Pasty Festival

Source: Kim Mutton
Thursday 21st June 2007, 1:00pm

Celebrating the Solstice? Forget travelling to Stonehenge and getting up at the crack of dawn to witness a grey cloudy start to the longest day. Join me in a celebration of English Summer Festivals

Glastonbury

Glastonbury promises to be a delight for all of us not going. I'm really looking forward to the news clips of arrssey young professionals sliding around in swamps, recounting their tales of Trenchfoot and Pnuemonia. Mr Eavis and the Bands will look on, tapping their brimming pockets while the least free/hippy folk in Britain fail to recreate any spirit of Woodstock and festivals as they were intended to be.

Pastival

The postponed Pasty Festival is now due to "happen" this weekend.

There should be live bands - rumour has it that the Worzels AND a tribute to them - The Wazzles will be Oh Arr'in it large and much cider sloshing and belated wassailing shall be done.

Cookery Demonstrations by celebrity small holder look-a-likey Hugh Fern-Lee HhitterTwit will run during the afternoon. Hugh assured me that he will refrain from his usual practice of charging extortionaate prices for foods he prepares as he does "very well thank you" from his appearance fees opening refurbished MacDonalds.

The highlight of the festival has to be the much anticipates Pasty Off. Ginsters, whose offer to sponsor the event was flatly refused, have thrown down the Gauntlet at the feet of Greggs the Bakers.

The contest will run the duration of the event with all welcome to munch and vote for their "high street pasty of choice" and the winner shall be announced before Songs of Praise on Sunday evening - we'll all need to get some much needed shut-eye as it's a schoolnight.

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Healthy Eating

Source: Kim Mutton
Monday 4th June 2007, 2:29pm

With the prospect of bearing all during the summer months (Munch for the Sun Pasty Festival a less than a month away) it is time to reverse the pasty indulgence of late..

Wot No Pasties?

Don't be fooled. Simply because I haven't been banging on about my relentless search for the perfect pasty does not mean I've been slacking. I'm at least a stone and a half heavier since begining this quest back in the Winter months when endless scoffing of meat and root vegatables encased in a variety of pastries seemed a smart move.

Time for action. time to shed.

I've invested in a food processor from Morphy Richards. Why bother buying a seperate Smoothie Maker when a good Food Processor mashes everything up just fine - ideal for pulping all the excess fruit from the veg plot.

I have always kept an eye on diets and healthy eating and am amused with some of the contradictory information that is "out there"

I have no doubt that fresh fruit and veg are super good for body and soul - hence my recent purchase - just beware of those carbon miles that a lot of supermarket food clocks up. Incidently I read recently that the man with pecil legs was having trouble concealing his carbon footprints.

I came across this blog over the weekend wihich encourages high volume eating in order to promote full evacuation the next day.

This fellow has gone to great lengths to record and analyise his doings and you never know there could be a diet best seller coming - as many diet books are sold as cookery guides/recipe books.

Read more at The Log Blog

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