Archive for the ‘Charcuterie’ Category

Black Pudding and Champ

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

How better to flood the system with pure warmth, energy and fortification than an Irish breakfast? What you see above is black pudding and champ. Black pudding is a simple blood sausage found throughout most of the UK. I made a batch last week from pork blood, steel-cut oats, onions herbs ...

Hungary?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Hungary's capital city of Budapest is a glorious dark fairytale, a home to royalty, thieves, gypsies and fusions of all three. It is a city of castles, cathedrals and labyrinthine underground tunnels, a place where things are seldom what they seem. Once welcoming doors can suddenly open to stone walls, and ...