The Mediterranean Club Toastie
The Mediterranean Club toastie should, of course, be called the Club Med. This glorious idea that was first suggested at a tasting almost a year ago, and we knew it had to happen. Credit for the name goes to E: she was there on the night and made the excellent...
The Cheesecake Toastie
I can't remember who first suggested a cheesecake toastie, but it was one of those great, illuminating moments when you hear a word properly for the first time. CHEESE cake. Of course. How could we have missed this for so long? So Barny made a batch of veg soup to at...
The Halloumi Toastie
Halloumi is one of my favourite cheeses: I had a bit of a binge on it a few years ago. This involved microwaving a slab and then eating it. Squeaky and delicious. It does have a ridiculously high melting point, so we were dubious about how well it would work as a...
The Garlic Mushroom Toastie
In both the garlic mushroom toastie recipes below mushrooms are sliced and fried with a little oil, a huge dollop of garlic purée (1tsp/4 mushrooms), salt and pepper. If we ever do run out of animals and have to live off bugs and greens, this is where I'm going first....
The Pepperoni Toastie
The pepperoni toastie is one of those ones we both thought we already had, but a thorough search of the archives suggests the only outing we've ever had with it is inside the Great Balls of Fire, our spicy triple decker toastie. So we figured it deserved a proper...
The Fig Toastie
The fig toastie is not exactly a classic, but it does always pop up on cheese boards. It goes well with cheese, and after a suggestion from my brother while we were staying there we thought it deserved a try. Plus vegetarian toasties that don't feel like they are...
Cornish Yarg Toastie
Today we were toasting in the wild, inflicting our New Year's resolution on my brother and his girlfriend, who were both delightful hosts and willing but helpfully critical guinea pigs, who kindly placed their toastie press at our disposal. We didn't have our usual...
The Prawn Toastie
Seafood. I guess as today is prawn toastie day we can call it a nautical theme somehow, parcelled up with yesterday's Anchovy offering. Still, prawns are tasty and delicious, while in my unbiased opinion anchovies are salty little blights on an otherwise perfectly...
The Anchovy Toastie
Happy new year everyone! It's January and we're all feeling fragile, so naturally we begin with one of the all-time marmite foods (marmite is up later in the month) and try an anchovy toastie. A month of toasties kicks off today, and there will be a new experiment...
The 12 Days Of Christmas
2014 has been a rush. I'm glad we survived, because 2015 is likely to be even stranger. Here are the most memorable bits of the year, nicely packaged as a festive countdown. Thanks again for an excellent 2014 everyone. This year I can say, more than ever before, that...
A Month of Toasties
This September I dedicated a post to the signature toastie. That quest is still ongoing, and wasn't really getting anywhere. Our development process is too slow, so while winter ravages the Beast and we work on getting the Bedford road-worthy, we are going to make the...
Space
Yesterday was the day we had set aside for a brief break before the final push through until Christmas. It meant we could go out for lunch and, more importantly, buy a Christmas tree. We found a farm on the Fosse Way and picked through trees, selected a small-looking...