Food & drink

My diet has been devoid of chilli over the past few months. Normally we eat lots of hot food – hotter the better – so I was becoming desperate for my fix. In a quiet moment, I made myself an delicious second breakfast to ease the craving.

Something for the weekend, or indeed any other time of the week; a version of this recipe seems to have achieved viral status. I made the recipe last night. It’s incredibly easy and it works a treat.

How and why to descale FrancisFrancis! espresso makers. And a little on Jerusalem artichokes.

Love him or hate him, I thought I’d mention our very own Jamie Oliver in response to Dan’s post about American TV chef, Alton Brown. The Essex geezer has been blogging in a manner of speaking for a few years, but recently got himself a brand new site which looks…

If you’re lucky enough to be in Brighton on a sunny summer weekend, such as the glorious one we’ve just had, I heartily recommend you seek out Jack and Linda Mills on the seafront. They are fish smokers by trade, but when he’s not making ‘Brighton…

I love to cook. Part of the pleasure of cooking is working with fine ingredients which is why I choose to tell you that this week is national organic week.

I won a case of beer today. A sodding great case of London Pride. It rather took me by surprise.

The wonderful thing about Italian food is its simplicity. Anyone with a soul can cook a good Italian meal when they put their mind to it. Thats why I don’t much go in for Italian restaurants.

Breeze is an elegant new minimalist theme for Mozilla. Googlebar is another great add-in from mozdev (source of the afore-mentioned Checky). It’s just like the IE Google toolbar, but for Mozilla. I’m a bit of a foodie, so it won’t come as much…

My brother, a graphic designer, decided that the colours I use on Cuzza.com needed to be a bit more curry-ey. So he kindly came up with some hot & spicy swatches based upon curry products, Indian cookery books and colour theory books. And made this a super page to display…

I’ve just added a new recipe to cuzza.com: Quick Curry Sauce. It’s a delicious curry sauce for when you have run out of brown stuff and don’t have time to make a fresh batch.

The Onion presents: Wine Appreciation Tips When dining with friends at a restaurant, order the second-least expensive wine on the list. If on a date, order the fourth-least expensive. Passport to the Pub: A British Guide to Pub Etiquette One of the saddest sights of the…

Jakob’s latest rant is his Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability which, while providing useful food for thought, is a desperately transparent plug for his latest book (blast: there’s another plug). Personally I would recommend the Home Page chapter of Steve…

You can now add your own curry restaurant reviews at cuzza.com. So if you’ve had a steaming vindaloo or a dodgy biryani recently you now know where to tell the world about it. As a reward you’ll get a reciprocal link, which can only be good.