Category: Xander

A simple salad to make using cold roast beef and cold boiled potatoes. Simply add a purple onion, some capers, a few tiny sliced cocktail gherkins and some olive oil. I threw in a couple of tomatoes as well, but that was neither necessary or a particular great idea...

I regularly make a hearty tortilla breakfast. Tortilla and a baguette, often with fruit and always with coffee. I’m fairly sure I’ve got the technique down, but each one seems like a gamble as I aim to get the perfect trade-off between cooked and runny on the inside. This...

It was on special offer so I plumped for this Bordeaux, 1993 is not renown for being a good year, however this seems to have beaten the vintage although not gone stellar. It disappointed initially although the first taste was bitter-sweet as I felt it might have potential. Indeed,...

It used to be the case that the ultimate insult one could offer a guest, or indeed bring as a gift to a host, would be English wine. However, it has been the case for some years that English wine has really excelled in certain areas, notably in the...

This spanish wine – translated as 200 monks – is really rather good. A gift to my girlfriend from her family meant I got to taste a fair portion of it, and I can certainly recommend it. I’ve never seen it on the shelves in stores, but then again...

I’m all for choice, after the gym this morning I chose to have a grapefruit and blueberries. I went home via M&S to sate this want. Suddenly I was very much against choice, I had chosen blueberries, as apposed to pears or Kiwis but now I have a problem....

The writing is on the wall and it says ‘Muriel woz ere’ which is good because Muriel is a fairly forgettable wine. Without this piece of imaginary graffito I would most likely not have known or cared to remember that Muriel was drunk by me. It’s alright, I suppose...

Apple and Rhubarb juice by Cawston. Mmmm… I used to drink Cawston apple juice when I was at university, buying cases of it when it went on special offer at the local sainsburys. By chance waitrose had a small tasting stand in one of their stores with some new...

So pretty but so full of dairy. I took a photo and went back to my table to eat it with my eyes. The sunday brunch at the East India Club always has a good range of deserts and after my eye-cake I went and had fruit salad. This...

In honour of the anniversary of the anotherfoodblog.com I foraged back in time to find a typical meal in the life of Xander circa 2006. Oh to be an impoverished student again. On this day in April 2006 I wrote: Saturday – must go shopping… Yesterday I ate: 1...