Friday, March 10, 2006

Gordon Ramsay

This man may be a tyrant in his own kitchen
but I think he’s a genius. He’s a three star
Michelin chef as most of you will know – an
exceptionally good cook. He's a man who speaks
his mind, and won’t tolerate anyone who gives
him crap (crap food or crap explanations)...
but at the same time he’s got a very caring
side. He’s passionate about good food and
passionate about building good relations with
his staff.

His latest TV series “Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares” is wonderful to watch (that is if
you take his use of the “F” word with a pinch
of salt). I think his ideas about simplifying
menus and maximising the flavour of food is
great. Just a simple thing like making
brocolli soup with ... well, what do you think?
...brocolli, water and seasoning ..without all
the cream the other chef wanted to put in. And
his phenomenal team-building skills are a joy
to see. Brilliant TV .. a must-see in my opinion.

One thing Mrs C and I dislike when we eat out,
is food with a lot of butter or cream in it.
We’ve felt almost sick when we come out of
one French restaurant in Nottingham, which
seems to specialise in creamy sauces. A
failing of French cuisine I think (and to be
avoided by anyone trying to lose weight).
Having said that, we do like eating
occasionally at the Pierre Victoire restaurant
in Nottingham, (though I’ve heard rumours that
the portion sizes are smaller since the new
management took over).

We don’t eat any meat when we eat out (well, I
eat chicken very rarely)...so we avoid eating
a lot of fat there too. Equally we tend to
avoid eating curries (unless we make them
ourselves), as they tend to be swimming in fat.

You may be thinking, "What a spoilsport!" You
are right. Ignore what I’ve just written .. go
out and really enjoy yourselves. Life is short,
and it's possible that you may not live long
enough to get a state pension.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Justin... re you post at zoes's MBIAT blog..Quote "PS ... will someone show me an exciting layout in Wordpress, with lots of colour and photos?"etc...Have you browsed here http://wordpress.org/extend/ infact the whole wordpress site is worth a read. So is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress One of the things I LIKE about the Wordpress layouts is their simplicity of design/subtle colours. Some blogs look like a dog walked across a colour palette, and the magpies have been collecting fonts ;) Simple backgrounds are more complementary to photos to my mind.Have a look at these two examples I read daily. http://wordpress.tokyotimes.org/ and http://www.petiteanglaise.com/ Regards from New Zealand.

10:35 pm  
Blogger justin said...

Many thanks, edt. I'll have a look at these sites.

11:21 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your welcome...I note urls are not 'clickable' in your comments. Is that a settings thing at your end?

10:19 am  
Blogger Mary said...

Hi Justin, I haven't seen all of the Kitchen Nightmares series, but I have been pleasantly surprised in the ones I have caught at how sensitive GR can be on occasion, in spite of all the F words.

In any event it's good to watch him at work, a real team builder, and a total professional

9:42 pm  
Blogger justin said...

Thanks for getting in touch, Mary.
Mrs C reminded me of a sexist comment that GR made on "Room 101", when he said that all women were terrible car drivers. So he may not be very easy to live with!

edt... it's odd that I can't link to your site in this comments box, but I can to Mary's. I'll have a look at my other comment boxes.

12:28 am  
Blogger justin said...

edt - as regards your own URL, I can't accesss this via my Comments box or your recent comments on Zoe's blogsite. I tried to put a website URL on Milady's site a few months ago, but this was rubbished by Blogger (or perhaps Milady herself). However I can see the URLs you have put in my Comments section very clearly, but as you say, there is no hyperlink facility. Perhaps more experienced bloggers would comment here?
Many thanks for introducing me to the wonderful sites you've found, that use Wordpress. I'm very impressed, and am thinking about setting up a parallel site to this one, to try it out (and to be more adventurous). By the way, could I have your URL, to see what you are getting up to?

2:02 pm  

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