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How to make the perfect roast potato
On June 7, 2020 by The Plate Licked CleanI know I should have been doing something noble over the last few months. I haven’t learned a new language and I don’t have a sourdough starter to cosset, so I’ve had to make do with mucking about in the kitchen in the times I should have been working. There are plenty of others who
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‘Cardiff Bites’: my lockdown list
On May 22, 2020 by The Plate Licked CleanIt’s a familiar title, filched from the pioneering grande dame of Cardiff restaurant blogging and current Instagram curly hair advice/cat appreciation maven): this is a bunch of essentially Cardiffian dishes and experiences which, unlike myself, were born and refined here. Dishes which have kept popping into my mind, taunting me with their charms, while we
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The Scallop Shell, Bath
On March 7, 2020 by The Plate Licked CleanIn the scant few days before we are finally wiped out by some rapidly mutating pathogen, let’s celebrate one of life’s little pleasures. We’ve all daydreamed our way through interminable ‘meetings’, I’m sure, when even a full house of Management Bullshit Bingo can’t stave off tedium. One of my favourite reveries is the idea of
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Sushi Life, Wellfield Road, Cardiff: Jan 2020 revisit
On February 9, 2020 by The Plate Licked CleanThere’s a long tradition of food-related riddles. One of the most well-known- and the inspiration behind the logo you’ve seen countless times on that Lyle’s Golden Syrup tin in your cupboard- is thousands of years old and biblical in origin. Briefly, Samson (Delilah, lovely hair, superhuman strength) killed a mountain lion with his bare hands
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Old Sichuan, Canton, Cardiff
On January 24, 2020 by The Plate Licked CleanAn unexpected hour to kill on the school run. I want big flavours, I want something with spice and aromatics. Where to eat when you want lunch with heft? “I’m not paying to do a bushtucker trial”, says my friend, and that’s from someone I’ve always thought of as a trencherman. Thus are the battle
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Is your favourite delivery service killing your favourite takeaway?
On July 1, 2017 by The Plate Licked CleanYou. Yes, you. You’re glossy of mane, resolute of purpose and firm of thigh; you know your béarnaise from your bolognese (or your Bovril, for that matter). You know that cutting thick tranches from a cauliflower doesn’t justify calling them ‘steaks’. You know that serving small portions of assorted world cuisines doesnt equal ‘tapas’. You