http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog A blog about all things food related in Oxford! Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:27:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A whole week of cupcakes, amazing! As if the OxNosh team needed any excuse to bake. And bake we did. And Internet shop, too. More of that later... Cupcakes (and I mean the embellished type), are undeniably American, and with ounces of cream cheese frosting on their over-sized form their nationality speaks through ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/cupcake-week-14th-20th-september/ Always eager for a food-related challenge, OxNosh are going to be foregoing the meat for a week as it's National Vegetarian Week. Giving up meat for a week can be tough, especially if you're not used to cooking without meat, however never fear - we've got lots of tasty recipes to ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/05/20/vegetarian-week-18-24th-may/ Restaurant page Brasserie Blanc – set menu with wine, £11.35-17.30 Ramond Blanc claims that if his Michelin-starred Le Manoir is a delicate waltz, the brasseries are the Can Can. Our meal was a fun experience, but perhaps rather less exhilarating than the Can Can. The a la carte menu looks sumptuous, featuring French ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/05/17/brasserie-blanc/ We’re a nation of wasters, its official. According to lovefoodhatewaste.com, nearly a third of all the food bought in the UK ends up being thrown in the bin when most of this could have been eaten. One way to cut back on the huge amount of food we throw away, ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/05/01/the-big-freeze/ I love aubergine, so much so that it's perhaps my favourite vegetable - it's all in the texture for me, the meltingly soft flesh held firm by the shiny black skin, a sponge for flavour. A great dish for Aubergines is involtini - griddled or grilled slices of aubergine wrapped ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/20/tarting-up-a-veg-pot-moroccan-squash-tagine/ Restaurant page My best tapas experiences have always involved being on holiday with my family in Andalucia; a quartet of non-Spanish speakers, subsisting off our ability to point at interesting-looking dishes in various bars. Al Andalus, the tapas bar on Little Clarendon Street, proved an exciting prospect – familiar dishes in ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/15/al-andalus/ Next up - Indian Daal Curry. We took loose inspiration from this Jamie Oliver recipe to make this spicy seafood and vegetable soup. Heat the veg pot with 1/2 cup (125ml) of vegetable stock (or coconut milk if you're feeling decadent). Meanwhile, get a piece of oily fish such as ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/13/tarting-up-a-veg-pot-spicy-seafood-and-vegetable-soup/ Third in line to be pimped was the Tuscan Bean Stew veg pot. Deciding it would feel most at home in an Italian-inspired meal, we made a quick pizza base, heated the roaring pizza oven (read: turned the oven up as high as it gets...), sliced a red pepper, chopped ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/11/tarting-up-a-veg-pot-tuscan-bean-pizza/ This was the challenge. Take one of the lovely little veg pots that Innocent have started making and come up with a way to make them a bit more 'special' for dinner. We think they're a great idea as they're tasty, packed full of veggies and no nasties. They've already started ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/09/tarting-up-a-veg-pot-mexican-wraps/ This week we received: Onions, Carrots, Potatoes, Parsnips, Purple Sprouting broccoli, Beetroot, Salad Pack We're happy to see the return of a little beetroot, the earthy sweetness is delicious in this soup, lime and vodka make it zingy and fresh, while a dollop of yoghurt not only makes it a lurid ... http://oxnosh.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/04/04/lighter-eating/