What am I doing?, Is this the right direction?, am I going forward?, will I ever get there? Some days I feel I have control, optimism and a sense of direction. Other days I feel lost in the fog and like a child in a grown ups game. This is honesty, pure and unfiltered. I’mContinue reading “LOST……?”
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BLOODY VALENTINES
It’s on us again, that time of year where people early in a relationship fall for the economy boosting, socially peacocking, florist payday that is Valentines day. Valentines day for people who have been in relationships normally consists of “oh, I thought we weren’t doing cards this year!”. But for the ones amongst us inContinue reading “BLOODY VALENTINES”
trip to the ranch to see The Squirrel
“You need the Squirrel!”, this is the advice Big Sexy had for me. For the last ten minutes we having been playing pool and chatting about the progress of the food van, as I go through the list of things needed its becoming apparent in my mind that I’m falling further and further behind, losingContinue reading “trip to the ranch to see The Squirrel”
bloody vegans!!!
This is it, this is the one that causes people to implode with opinion, the one topic that causes people to call me an uninformed bald arsehole (to which they are probably correct), this is the ramble about VEGANS. As we get to the end of VEGANARY, a new concept trendies seem to embrace forContinue reading “bloody vegans!!!”
I CAN’T ESCAPE WEDDING FOOD
“We do the usual kind of thing, soup, roast dinner and brownie type dessert”. As the manager of the restaurant is doing his best to tell us his wedding package options. For some reason he has lost his wedding coordinator, maybe he misplaced her, maybe they had a falling out, maybe she moved on toContinue reading “I CAN’T ESCAPE WEDDING FOOD”
its raining mentors, hallelujah!
Starting a business is a head fuck, you take yourself out of the life of comfort and routine that finds time for Netflix and golf, to go to the edge of strategically winging it. I have ideas, to a point I can even tell you what I need to do to keep the business goingContinue reading “its raining mentors, hallelujah!”
IT’S 2020 BITCHES!!!
Read any motivational or personal development book and they all say figure out what you want and write it down. put it out for the world to see and then work towards it. So boldly I thought where better than the blog to etch down my hopes for 2020. To be perfectly honest this mightContinue reading “IT’S 2020 BITCHES!!!”
Tips to help cook Christmas dinner.
Setting up the kitchen one morning, one of the lovely bar staff popped through the kitchen for a morning fag on the rooftop to collect her thoughts and mentally prepare her day. On her way back through she looked at me with a slightly panicked look before asking “got any tips on cooking Christmas dinner?”.Continue reading “Tips to help cook Christmas dinner.”
Christmas dinner is Groundhog day
As December passes by in a blur, the hours increase, the workload increases, the panic of front of house having to deal with something slightly new increases and everyone starts planning the meals around Christmas with more tactical awareness than General Patton. The meals of Christmas eve, Christmas dinner, the boxing day curry all plannedContinue reading “Christmas dinner is Groundhog day”
death row dining
“So you’ve flown to America, gone on a massacre because someone says scallion or cilantro one too many times and you find yourself on death row waiting the electric chair. “What would your last meal be?”. Its normally some variation on this question, but its one I’ve heard many times over the last 17 yearsContinue reading “death row dining”
FOOD ANARCHY 