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Image Description: A brown ceramic bowl filled with casu marzu cheese surrounded by meats and buckets of olives A certified BNOC of ‘Top 10 Most Disgusting Foods’ lists and placed as the corner of Libertarian-Right in a recent Oxfess, casu marzu (literally translated as rotten cheese) has never been a particularly popular delicacy outside of Sardinia. […]
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Image description: a photo of a tray of donuts Whilst you’re in Tesco ogling at the Advent Calendars, the Christmas puddings, the Christmas stockings, the Christmas trees and don’t forget the Christmas mistletoe you might happen to stumble upon a six pack of Doughnuts in the holiday section. *Shopper gasps in horror* What is a […]
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Image description: Sugar biscuits in a variety of festive shapes covered in coloured icing. Looking for an (O)xmas treat to chase away the cold nights? Look no further! Christmas sugar biscuits are the perfect sweet treat for a wholesome movie night – they’re quick and easy to make, and super fun to decorate! I made these […]
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Image description: a plate of meatballs and spaghetti on a wooden table The Sobell House Food and Kindness Cookbook brings together 30 recipes from a range of local chefs, restaurants, food writers and celebrities to raise money for the Sobell House hospice in Oxfordshire. This cookbook is not only in aid of a good cause, but is […]
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Image description: A mini cheesecake in a blue cupcake case. Last week’s episode of the Bake Off did not disappoint. Dessert week presented the bakers with the challenge of making beautiful jelly art design cakes and in the technical, Sussex Pond Pudding. Previously unaware of Sussex Pond Pudding, after seeing the mushy final products that […]
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Image description: graphic drawing of an Oxford street lined with various cafés In a student-jammed city like Oxford, you won’t have any trouble finding a great local café. Selecting the five best, however, is a bit more tricky. Luckily for us, after browsing through Oxford’s various ‘serendipities’ and ‘faux-dives’, we came to the conclusion that […]
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Image description: a photo of homemade toffee piled high in a bowl. This one-pan recipe for sweet and very chewy toffee (inadvisable for those with fillings) only needs 4 ingredients and a hob. Quick and easy to make, it’s perfect to pop in your pocket for a dark night watching fireworks, or as a sweet […]
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Image description: Two bowls of food: the left is a bowl of spicy red noodle soup, the right a green pandan waffle and ice-cream. Located on the top floor of the Westgate, Pho Café is the perfect place to go for dinner if you want to feel like you’ve slightly left the beaten track, without […]
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Image description: Two chocolate brownies surrounded by crumbs. The yearly return of Bake Off is always an occasion to be celebrated. Its triumphant return to our screens heralds the beginning of cosy nights in and crisp autumnal chills, as the nation gathers together in their living rooms to offer assertive judgements on the contestants’ bakes, despite […]
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Image description: three family members sat around a table eating dinner, one stood to the left of them cooking on a hob with a saucepan. Mid-way through Trinity, and in need of something to occupy my spare time, I made the announcement to my family that I would be taking on a full-time position as […]
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Image description: Two plates of dumplings, on a table. Maga Flores-Trevino—Aosta Valley – Seupa à la valpellinentze (Zuppa alla valpellinzese) Food in the Aosta Valley, where I spent a big part of my year abroad, is a reflection of the cow-filled, mountainous land situated between France and Switzerland in Northern Italy. Mountain climate and […]
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Image description: Paella in a pan. I, like most, have been stuck in lockdown for over four months now and I, like most, am going a little stir-crazy. I miss the outdoors, I long for a Spanish summer, and, more than anything, I just need to change it up. What am I cooking for dinner, […]
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Queueing outside the door of the restaurant, glared at by safety instructions and wall-mounted hand sanitisers, I felt the same swell of embarrassed nerves I might get waiting to be seated in a roller coaster, the same niggle of faint regret. Who knew that going out for dinner would one day become a comparable matter […]
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Image Description: Madeleine Cakes on a plate “She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called ‘petites madeleines,’ which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim’s shell. And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to […]
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My initial reaction to the news that cafes and restaurants will probably reopen in July was pure joy. Having been in Russia on my year abroad until a hasty exit in mid-March, I haven’t been able to enjoy the breadth of restaurant food the UK has to offer since last September. Like most homesick year […]
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I am a summer person. Despite my academic lifestyle and a never-ending list of hobbies, I am most content blissfully passed out on a sun-lounger by the local pool, letting the sun tan my skin as it crosses the sky, a book and an Aperol Spritz by my side. I spend most of the year […]
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There are many things to miss about Oxford but one which stands out is time spent in the college bar. Whether it’s to catch up with friends, enjoy a bop or partake in a bar crawl, these sacred havens have been the spots of many a happy hour. But, as with all forms of fun […]
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For my parent’s generation, catering for vegetarians was certainly not the ‘norm’. In fact, ‘vegetarian’ wasn’t a recognised term like it is today – plenty of people had never met a vegetarian before, and to embrace that title was to identify yourself as completely outside of the mainstream. Since then, social stigma has greatly improved […]
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Sourdough loaves, banana bread and Dalgona coffee are but a few of the edible boredom busters that might spring to mind when we reflect on this lockdown in years to come! But I’m sure you’ve seen and heard enough about them, so I’ll spare you the tales of my interesting attempts. Instead, I’m turning to […]
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