Category Archives: cookery

Cooking for Slackers: Tortilla (serves one unless you’re a dainty eater)

Posted on August 5, 2026 by odeboyz

Spanish readers should avert their eyes and leave the page now! This Tortilla recipe is demanding for easy-going Slackers. However, every Slacker occasionally want a new jig. And that means the Slacker Mission Statement goes to the wall. This recipe … Continue reading →

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Cooking for Slackers: Peanut butter bruschetta

Posted on July 15, 2026 by odeboyz

Simple foods can be made crazily complex by lunatics with too much time on their hands or poseurs or wannabe celebrity cooks. Ignore them and focus on essentials. This recipe is stupid simple, quick and different. Bruschetta is peasant food … Continue reading →

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An Irishman eats potatoes

Posted on June 17, 2026 by odeboyz

“…theirs are so strikingly good: fire-smoked and bathed in butter, sweet and soft beneath their crunchy skins, their flesh perfectly waxed and salty. To eat one is to immediately know, deep in your bog-brained heart, that you will soon be … Continue reading →

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Grace Dent reviews Oudh 1722 London SE1

Posted on June 13, 2026 by odeboyz

“Oudh 1722’s a la carte menu opens with a lamb shorba, a traditional Awadhi welcome broth poured over finely chopped lamb tartare. Then spherical servings of gol guppa (you might know them by another moniker, pani puri)…..” Only Londoners love … Continue reading →

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Cooking for Slackers: Almond and Banana Toastie

Posted on June 3, 2026 by odeboyz

A toasted banana slice is lovely. But it can be improved. Classically a toasted banana slice is bread toasted on one side then a smear of mashed banana on the untoasted side. The banana is grilled until it’s bubbling. The … Continue reading →

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Is a McDonald’s burger food?

Posted on April 11, 2026 by odeboyz

“There have been a lot of online videos and photos touting the fact that when left out for an extended period of time, a McDonald’s hamburger does not rot and that this is because they are laden with chemicals. The … Continue reading →

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Holier than thou! Foodie superiority

Posted on March 18, 2026 by odeboyz
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Victims of Trip Advisor strike back

Posted on February 7, 2026 by odeboyz
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Victoria Wood on vegetables

Posted on October 29, 2025 by odeboyz

“My children won’t even eat chips because some know-all bastard at school told them a potato was a vegetable.”

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Cooking for Slackers: When parents come to tea

Posted on September 17, 2025 by odeboyz

Debris in the kitchen/living room must be removed. Not doing so is sub-optimal. To business. Offering a cup of coffee1 is standard unless they’re hard-core and want tea. But you will spring a surprise. There will be wonderful plates of … Continue reading →

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