Dev’s Halloween special – just treats, no tricks
Just in case you haven’t had enough of Halloween already or your bin is full and you’re not sure what to do with your pumpkin remains, I’ve got the perfect solutions. I briefly considered breaking the mould and writing about Diwali foodstuffs instead of pumpkins: however I don’t think the chicken korma i learnt to [...]
Pinches of Salt
5 Plates Too Many Gluttony, greed and other sins probably sums up my weekend. During a parental visit on Friday I quickly jumped at the offer to eat real food at a real restaurant (apparently Subway doesn’t count…) and was perplexed by the choices in Leeds. A swift Google search led me to ‘Red Hot [...]
Dev’s Generous Portion
Shared kitchens: more spills than thrills? Kitchen sharing – it’s something most of us experience (or in some cases endure) during our university days. Whether you’ve known your housemates for yonks or they’re randoms you found on Gumtree, kitchen etiquette has the potential to make or break household harmony. And sadly after years of kitchen [...]
Pinches of Salt
What freezes first: the chicken or the egg? My bulk buying spree reached an all time high this week with the purchase of an 18 pack of eggs. My flat and I have been having some fridge problems and this resulted in a number of the precious eggs freezing in their container. This led to [...]
Dev’s Generous Portion
M&S posh nosh: is their food as sexy as the voiceovers? Despite my good intentions neither did I live off £10 this week (never tempting in the first place) or go to Bradford for a curry (excess gin and lunging through town for no apparent reason on Friday night left me feeling pretty feeble on [...]
Rock it Work it Love it
Oh! The dreaded 3rd year… As students, we all know the feeling of regret when someone mentions third year right? First year is a ball, carefree chaos and five nights out a week for as long as our livers can manage! Second year, well similar, but it counts, so more stress and fewer nights out [...]
From Mahmood’s to Michelin
A mixed bag… At the Assistants Meeting they told us we were a representation of our culture, and to always use said culture advantageously. With that in mind, I decided to soak it all in with a Domino’s pizza (you may scoff, but I strongly believe that a crème fraîche rather than a tomato-based sauce [...]
Pinches of Salt
Tasting the Geordie Rainbow Earlier this week I let the notion of bulk buying and budgeting get dangerously to my head. I somehow found myself dragging home a 5kg bag of Morrison’s value potatoes on Monday evening. The sell by date warned me that they would be out of date and apparently unsafe to eat [...]
Dev’s Generous Portion
The Leeds market: juicy punnets and sweets that taste of cow So this week I headed to the market in search of cheap eats. I bloody love the market and I regret not having fully embraced it before. Somehow I don’t think the Smurf and seaweed costumes I purchased there for Otley Runs in first [...]