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My garden is going to kick your garden’s arse

In food, photo on 21 September 2008 tagged garden with 2 comments

So this year, I’m growing Tomatoes for the first time ever.
My garden consists of six Tomato plants (Tommy Toe and Dynamo), one bucket of Potatoes, and a big-arse Rosemary plant so far. They were my first ever father’s day gifts (awww!).
I really want to get a big-arse Basil plant and a big-arse Coriander going too. [...]

Get serious about lunch

In food on 30 April 2008 tagged auckland cheap eats reviews with no comments

Like eating? Like eating in Auckland? Like eating stuff that’s not crap? Like paying feck-all for it?
If you answered ‘yes’to all the above, you need to check out Auckland Cheap Eats Reviews - fine lunching for the tight of fist.
My mate is reviewing Auckland’s out of the way eateries, dish by dish. My favs are [...]

God bless the Croatian fishies

In chartered trips, food, photo on 27 September 2006 with no comments

Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

Pretty, innit?

In chartered trips, food, photo on 16 September 2006 with no comments

Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

Anthony Bourdain’s Lebanon perspective

In chartered trips, food, links, media on 1 August 2006 with no comments

Shee-yit, I’ve got a blog!Anthony Bourdain is the anti-celebrity chef with a taste for Steak and The Ramones - that alone makes him my kind of guy, but he also does deadly keyboard. I pilfered copies of “Kitchen Confidential‘ and ‘A Cook’s Tour‘ last Thursday, and have read the first and am halfway through the [...]

Blog neglect

In chartered trips, food, meta on 16 June 2006 with no comments

It’s World Cup time, so any blog effort is over on the other channel.I DID make nice Creme Brule with blueberries, though.