There’s no such thing as an aphrodisiac food. There’s nothing you can grill, fry or roast that will have your dining companion casting aside their cutlery and crawling across the table towards you, growling like a lusty tiger on Viagra. Aphrodisiac foods do not work, apart, of course, from when ... Read More...
About Author Profile: Jassy Davis
The first Burns Supper took place on the 21st July 1801, on the anniversary of Robert Burns’ death five years before. Nine of his friends gathered to toast his memory and recite his poems over an offal and whisky soused dinner. It was so successful that they met again on ... Read More...
Young whippersnappers will have taken down their Christmas tree last week, on the 6th January. But those of us who still aren’t quite sure about the Gregorian calendar changeover will celebrate Twelfth Night on the 17th January with a wassail. Wassailing first appears in records in the 15th century, but as ... Read More...
Following up her triumphant venison mincemeat recipe, Jassy attempts a Christmas Mission Impossible: making sprouts edible... Is there a more painful Christmas ritual than the annual passing round of the Brussels sprouts, accompanied by the traditional chant: “You have to take at least one, you have to take at least one”? ... Read More...
A seasonal recipe for venison mincemeat, from the Dabbler's foodie whizz Jassy, who also blogs at Gin and Crumpets. The Christmas tree is up, half the Advent calendar doors stand gaping and the presents are a mess of wrapping paper and Sellotape, but there is still time to make your own mincemeat and have ... Read More...
I know that it's winter because the miasmic reek of porridge hangs heavily over our office. It's bought into the building in cardboard cups, thick and stiff like wallpaper paste and glammed up with jam, bananas or compote. And thriftily, instant oats are stirred into milk and heated in the ... Read More...
Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes Day, Fireworks Night...so odd they named it thrice. Whatever it's called, on this one The Dabbler is delighted to welcome the wonderful Jassy Davis, proprieter of Britain's most delicious food blog Gin and Crumpets, who offers an appropriate recipe. We're hoping that Jassy will be bringing us ... Read More...
