Food glorious food.

Well welcome to another edition of Bangers and Mash!

We'll start with Mash as that has the most info as usual.

My mum and dad took me for a belated birthday meal the other week and the venue which was chosen was Cafe Royal near the Grainger Market (Also the work place of Matty Smith).

I decided for my meal I'd go for the venison with creamy mash, veg and bacon. I had it medium rare and it was lovely tender!



My mum went for the chicken sandwich which was bloody huge, it had many things of goodness inside, plus she couldn't finish it so I got to have some of it, RESULT!



My dad went with the classic steak and chips and he wasn't too pleased on having to wait for me to take a photo of his meal before he could start eating!



All in all another top notch family meal!

Some time in the next week or so a few of us went to American diner, alas my phone died so I only got the chance to take pictures of my meal, but hopefully you'll enjoy!

I started with the Reise's milkshake.



My main was a little controversial but I thought it was very tasty. I had the super stack of 6 pancakes covered in maple syrup, 2 sausages and then a scoop of chocolate icecream! It was lush but as I was a little hungover I had to share some of it!



Lovely jubbly!

Then last weekend I made a epic journey down to Bournemouth for a family friends 60th birthday meal.
After a quick wash after a near 7 hour train journey we went to the restaurant.
I started with the scallops with pancetta covered in a cream sauce. It was lovely but I wish I had got a larger starter!



My starter may have been small but goddamn my main made up for it! I got a massive piece of belly pork with crackling on a bed of creamy champ mash in a rich gravy. It was very good!



We all had the same desert as we had a fruit pavlova which had a nice variety of fruits involved. It was a refreshing end to the meal, job done!



And for our Bangers we have a montage of our recent skate/party/job trip to London, enjoy!

http://blip.tv/file/2386802?filename=Bish35-LondonMontage431.mov

Please sir can I have some more.

Right its time for a bit of an insane update! The amount of amazing food that has gone down recently has meant that food itself will take pride as being BOTH the bangers and mash today! Enjoy!

First we have Mash, and its a good'un!

The sat before last I went out for Lauren's birthday meal and it was in the tasty El Coto (Which I had only just had a tasty meal in a few days before). It was a big group so we went for the set tapas menu for everyone to share which worked out a treat.
For starters we had bread olives and mayo dip which I didn't bother blogging but for main we had a nice selection of:

Beef stew


A cheeky chicken and tomato dish


Chilli garlic prawns


Meatballs


Chorizo sausage


Squid rings with mayo dip


Then finally a rice dish with chorizo sausage and chicken incorporated in it.


After the epicness of that meal I was in for another treat when Rachael took me for lunch as she couldn't make my birthday night out! We attended the Salsa club and I got involved with a chicken club sandwich with salsa, tomato nachos and various other good things inside!


As people might know we were on a mini skate/party/job interview trip down to London last weekend. Well many fun things happened but as this is another special edition of the blog things which weren't food/drink will be talked about in another post.
We stayed for the most part at Londontom's parents house and do they know how to treat guests well! We were fed like absolute kings, but as my phone had no battery for most of the weekend I was unable to blog most of the lovely treats, but below is a tiny selection of the fun things we had!

While chilling at a chicken shop after a session at the new Mile End park Dirty Dave Vise picked this corker to drink, I think it gave him that little bit extra so that he could film crazy stunts!


On the Saturday night we were treated to a BBq at the Whittle's! Basically I hit that shit so hard it was like a scene from Rocky!
I helped myself to 3 burgers and in each one I had cheese, grilled veg, cheese and chive dip and tomato sauce. It may look messy and rank but it was AMAZING!


For pudding we had a big plate of Choco mini rolls, which Dirty Dave Vise was all about!


On the Sunday morning before we left Tom's mum cooked a breakfast worthy of Zeus himself! On the table we had scrambled eggs, bacon, parma ham, salami, fried potato's, fried tomato's, cereal, toast, juice, veg sausage rolls and grilled haloumi.
Here is enjoying the feast!


Below is the little sandwich I made!


Tune in later this week, as my mum and dad are taking me for a belated birthday lunch and we are hitting up Cafe 21!

CAT ROOM!

Basically I'm going to do a epic blog of both my birthday and our recent trip to London very soon, however before this I think a special blog post has to be given to the CAT ROOM! This post is just about the room so won't involve food or skating (Don't worry though as the next update will be rammed with all that goodness!).
The cat room is the room which me and Matty stayed in when staying at LondonTom's parents house over the weekend in London (Essex really).
This room is completely dedicated to cats, and Ive literally never seen anything like it, but enough with the chat lets see the evidence!

First we have cat cushions.





Then we have cat wallpaper, which Matty smith was stoked on.



Then there were the cat throws.



Cat pictures.





And then some cat statues!





This room was RAD, but Jamie couldn't handle it!



Stayed tuned for an epic London/bday food update!

Epic Update!

Right today has been pretty epic on all fronts, so buckle up its going to be a bumpy ride.

As usual we will start with Bangers.

Sidewalk were up taking photo's and Mr Scott Cherry thought it was his time to shine. Basically he sw 50-50 the massive rail at wasteland INTO THE WATER! Not only is the trick insane but rolling away into toxic wasteland water is a true banger! What makes it even more heroic is the fact he took a good hour or so landing body/face/leg/back first into the putrid water. HERO! Below is one of the many times he spent fishing his board and body out of the water



Right and we'll get onto the Mash because its been a long food day!

First off I went for Tapas at El Coto with my Mum and Dad and basically we weren't messing about. We all got 2 dishes and then some Tomato Bread and Olive bread to share.

Below we have pork medallions and mushrooms in a blue cheese sauce



Then we have fried squid rings with mayo.



We have a tasty dish of beef stew and prawns in a garlic chilli sauce.



Also lovely cheese and aubergine bake thing.



And finally the tomato bread and chicken in chilli and garlic sauce. Alas I did not take a pic of the olive bread.



Now we move onto dinner! After Amy Dover's art show at Electric sheep me, Tom Fone, Steff and Matty headed to the American diner. After a very confusing few minutes we all ended up with a free Butterscotch pecan milkshake, YUM!



I shared my meal with Matty because I was full from lunch. I chose the chicken and guacamole in a tortilla wrap with a side of salad.



One the way out we had a right treat, the lass behind the counter had been to America recently and had brought back some Reeses cereal, and she said she would make a milkshake out of it for free for all four of us. It had the cereal in it, with vanilla icecream, cream, and concentrated peanut butter sauce, drizzled with Reeses sauce! Oh my days it was amazing, the girl who made them was a legend!

Salsa Club.

Today's 'Bangers and Mash' update is fairly short because of the intense rain.

For Bangers we have Chris Cole lookalike and all round happy guy Heelflip Mark blasting a ollie into the deep end of the bowl a few weeks back.



And for Mash we have a little trip to the Salsa club. Me and Londontom went for a cheeky lunch and we both ordered a veg club sandwich. The picture may not shed the best light onto its taste but trust me it was top notch. Inside we had tomato's, re-fried beans, cheese, blue cheese sauce, lettuce, guacamole, jalapeno's and nachos.



On the side we had some potato wedges with blue cheese sauce, sweet chilli sauce and guacamole.