Get full on a fiver
Whether it’s a dish for your mates, your partner or somebody you'd like to be your partner, it doesn't have to cost more than a fiver. Daniel Smith shows us how to cook like a chef on a student budget.
Ingredients
A brilliant dish isn’t an expensive dish. Quite the opposite; most dishes you pay a lots for in an expensive restaurant cost as little as possible – Gordon (Rambo) Ramsay didn’t become a millionaire by throwing money at his food.You don’t need top of the range kit or loads of ingredients.
Food miles
Laura Rowe discusses how far our food has travelled as many of us have little idea where it is from and who produced it
Food miles and food provenance are the new buzzing words for 2007. For those unversed in the terminology, food miles simply means how far your food has travelled to your plate and its provenance is where and who has produced it: both of which are of increasing importance to the socially and environmentally aware shopper.
The way we shop for our food not only affects our taste buds but can contribute to pollution such as carbon emissions and global warming. The statistics are worrying. Food and agriculture consist of 30% of the goods transported on our roads.
Drinks Preview
Real Ale and Cider Festival 2007
Brewery: Breconshire Brewery
Location: Brecon, Powys, Wales
Mood Food
So we have all had enough by now of all this Valentine’s day hype and fuss. But one love we all have is food. Carry on the romantic feel this February with some moody and sultry recipes. Laura Rowe gives us advice on food and drinks to set the mood.
Oysters
To set the mood, why not try aphrodisiac oysters from Cardiff Market? Arguably not to everyone’s taste, but I promise you they are not only edible but delectable served in the shell with a fruity red wine vinegar, finely chopped shallots and a tiny bit of caster sugar.
Home Grown
Joanne Grew tells us about the wonders of our locally reared and produced foods, and why you should not be missing out
It’s all very well being cultural by trying exotic food from all over the world, but as the saying goes ‘there’s no place like home,’ or in our case, ‘there’s no food like home.’ So why not take a look at what is on your doorstep and discover the delight of some traditionsl Welsh dishes. From barybrith to cawl, you would be surprised at the wide range of delicious dishes our country has to offer.
With recent campaigning to promote Welsh food on a cultural perspective in the East, many Welsh dishes can now be found on the menus of the worlds most exotic of countries, such as Dubai. It is exceeding itself here too, as more and more people today are buying produce grown or reared locally. The food purchasing report that people spent £9.9m in 2003, with a 46% increase to £14.6m in 2006.
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