Glue your jaws shut with a traditional Bonfire Night treat. Honeycomb, yellow man, sponge toffee, hokey pokey, puff candy, the middle of a Crunchie Bar – cinder toffee goes under many names but there’s no mistaking it. The glossy, golden outside that snaps open to reveal bubbles of caramel-coloured sugar makes ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Jassy Davis
A teatime treat from The Dabbler's resident foodie Jassy... Without question, the greatest chocolate bar of all time is the Dairy Milk Fruit And Nut. The sweet, eager-to-melt chocolate, dimpled with sultanas and shards of almond, offers both a challenge and a surprise in every bite. You never know whether you’ll ... Read More...
Dabbler foodie expert Jassy Davis goes scrumping for an autumnul treat... I’ve been out in my local park, bothering the hedgerows again. The season compels me. Autumn arrives heavy with fruit, nuts and vegetables and the urge to get into my metaphorical combine and harvest it all is irresistible. I’m helped ... Read More...
Back with a bang, Dabbler foodie expert Jassy explains how to make dressed crab - beginning with murdering it... When I get nostalgic for the seaside, I fondly imagine sitting down at a rough wooden table and eating crab smeared on brown bread, wiping my fingers on a plasticky paper napkin ... Read More...
The first warm rains have cracked summer open and, as we contemplate the liquid blue sky and ponder what it means for the weekend’s barbecue, we’re forced to contemplate the vexed issue of raw vegetables. Salads are generally an after-thought in the British kitchen. The standard offering is a condensation-heavy bag ... Read More...
There were two high points to my Easter Sundays when I was a child. First, waking up to find that the Easter Bunny had indeed come a-hopping and left me a chocolate egg at the bottom of my bed. The second was the trip to Butser Hill to roll painted ... Read More...
Spring has sprung, the blossoms are in bloom and up and down the country the minds of fashionable foodies have turned to foraging. Where once an annual, autumnal blackberrying trip would satisfy modern man’s hunter-gathering urges, 21st century townies enjoy nothing more than presenting their guests with a pile of ... Read More...
I lived in Ireland for three months last year and if there was one thing I learned to appreciate while I was there, it was the importance of a good cup of tea. Every evening, after work, my housemates and I would gather together and churn through the day, sifting ... Read More...
There’s no dish in the British cook’s repertoire more thrilling than pancakes. Even a flaming Christmas pudding pales into dull insignificance beside the spectacle of pancake-flipping. It’s not something that can be done privately. The cook emerging triumphant into the dining room with a plate of warm pancakes and a coy ... Read More...
March 1st: a day to pin a daffodil or leek to your lapel, sing a ballad or two and generally celebrate being Welsh (if you are Welsh. If you aren’t, you may look a little ridiculous, although good for you for carrying on with multiculturalism when it’s so unfashionable). The 1st ... Read More...
