Gordon White

London life skills learnt the hard way. Also recipes for some reason.

Genoese Squid For People Who Never Cook Season

This recipe is Genoese-inspired, from Diana Henry’s life changing book, Food From Plenty. The dish is for people who -like me- actually really like seafood but never really cook it because they’re too chicken shit.

Radish And Olive Salad For A Confusing Detox

In between catching up with business partners, family and friends over the new year there are evenings at home spent crying into my XXXL muumuu about how much weight was gained over Christmas.

A Very European Union Of Sausages

Chorizo, for instance, goes with everything and appears fun and exciting and vivacious like a hot Spaniard you meet at sunset by the beach.

How To Do Burns Night At Home

Of course, if you are going to be racist and turn your nose up at the fine people of Scotland’s proud heritage then I am going to make you work for it. This Highland stew is much more hassle but will begrudgingly serve as a delicious replacement.

Seventies Party Food For People Who Weren’t Alive In The Seventies

Quite a number of this year’s food trends have a seventies feel to them… chopped liver, wines made of things other than grapes…

Breaking Free

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This is the first official post from Invading Europe’s currently secret new home.

There are so, so many reasons for this change -none of them have anything to do with being repeatedly nagged to update my blog. I swear. The real reason is to get away from vox’s really crummy set-up where I can’t do fucking anything at fucking all!

And it feels ever so good.

Not only do I get widgets and a hilarious new design (don’t pretend you don’t love it) but you can all comment now without logging into vox (something that wasn’t that difficult anyway you …