Gordon White

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

Recipe: Tarte De Pâques

Don’t let my extreme cultural insensitivity stop you. This is delicious served warm/room temperature and finished off with a nice glass of vin santo.

Consider this the Total Recall look. (Think about it.)

That’s A Whole Quarter Of A Year??

Blogs are like children. You do actually have a favourite one. And this is my recessive ginger blog.

Google's inaugural Think Publisher event last week

Butternut Curry For Dinner So You Can Have A Nice Lunch For Once

I ate this cold straight from the fridge but then I am as urbane and sophisticated as a NASCAR pit man.

It really does not feel like four months since I cooked this. Hope the rest of those lentils are okay.

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.

Brizzle in da Hizzle!

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Oh how I love Bristol!

It’s my new Wellington.

It’s arty/musicy, just like Wellington… It’s hilly/viewy, just like Wellington… It’s a bit grungy, just like Wellington.

Plus it’s a university town. So the people are extremely attractive.

And because the university is at the top of the hill (nice planning. Hats off.) both the males and the females have disproportionately nice ‘upper thighs’ (just like Wellington).

It’s also where Leondom and Monique wisely live.

So James and I went and visited them the other weekend which was awesome.

Seriously, this is my kinda town.

It’s on the Avon river

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Poverty Meal: Chickpeas alla Nigella

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So many of my poverty meals are based originally on a Nigella recipe. But with this one I am just going to copy it out wholesale cos it’s the shizz.

It doesn’t have a name so feel free to make one up.

I was thinking about calling it Vicpeas because sherry reminds me of vicars but it turns out that is a really fucking lame attempt.

‘Vicars balls’ is thusly the current working title.

Ingredients

Wok oil (or use a mixture of sesame, garlic and vegetable oils. Or whatever fruity combination your brain comes up with. I didn’t have wok

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Poverty Meal: Mexican Tuna Casserole

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I’m so proud of how white trash this is.

It’s based on my mother’s slightly less white trash recipe. Unfortunately her version calls for a roux to be made and I just can’t afford the extra butter or flour.

So I made this!

Actually this one will impress her because she has a love for all things Mexican (food, Cameron, etc). Of course, this is about as Mexican as I am but you get the idea.

It’s Baja California by way of Fountain Lakes.

Ingredients

2 x can of chopped tomatoes
500 grams (drained weight) of tuna in water (not

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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 …