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Pan Roasted Halibut, French cut Romano Beans with Lardons, Salsa Verde

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I am still on cloud nine to be honest. The party hosted by WhiteonRice is still in my darn head, and I cannot get it out. Dani and I finally met the awesome couple, and can now call them friends. I am honored. The only bugger is they are in California, and we are in Seattle, so I cannot invite them over for dinner every weekend!! They managed to assemble such a fabulous range of bloggers, that are truly inspirational – it is no wonder I cannot stop thinking about that wonderful sunny afternoon in California.

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One of the scariest 6 hours of my life

Nutty, nutty stuff. I was swearing like squadie last night I can tell you. I haven’t had a huge amount of scary things happen in my life. A really nasty bike accident in my teenage years, and that is about it.. Oh, Danika going into labor was pretty bloody scary (but exciting) too.

I type up a blog post last night, and submit it. 500 Internal Server Error. Bastards. I try again. Fuckers.

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A change in perspective, thanks to White on Rice Couple

OK - link first: http://whiteonricecouple.com/blog/?p=337

So, what is this post all about? No picture straight off??… Wait, no pictures at all!!! Has Matt lost his fingers? Wait, he is still able to type, so that cannot be so.

Danika and I had to go down to Southern California for some business, and we managed to wangle it (thanks work!) so that it would be around the time of a food bloggers party, hosted by the completely brilliant Diane and Todd - or as most know them White on Rice Couple

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Rosemary Roast Chicken – and my first ever (and possibly last!) video post

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It takes a certain kind of bloody idiot to want to roast a chicken in 90F weather. It takes an even bigger idiot to think “wouldn’t it be great to roast three of them!!”

That’s me folks. Some of Danika’s family were coming over to dinner. One I would describe as a picky eater. The last time I cooked for them it seemed like almost everything that was on their plate was something they didn’t like. That was my bad – I didn’t ask before cooking (but in my defense, it wasn’t any freaky ingredients).

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Seafood Paella

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I have been having seafood withdrawals recently. It has actually been quite a while now since I have really cooked up a decent amount of ocean fair.

This post, you see, is actually out of order. I have a great roast chicken post to do, which actually got “made” before this one. The problem is that there is a video associated with that, which is taking me a sodding age to edit, because I have realized that I am remarkably crap on camera.

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Zucchini Trifolati with cherry tomatoes and basil

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Talk about a taste of summer. This is a really fantastic little recipe from Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray owners/chefs of the amazing London River Cafe. I have one of their cookbooks - “Italian Two Easy”, and it is brilliant. Effortlessly simple, but just striking food that you will honestly remember for years. Much like their restaurant!

So this was a quick lunch today. I am working from home, to spend a little more time with the family, and decided I would do this recipe again. For the last couple of summers we would have this at least once every two weeks – when tomatoes and zucchini’s are great.

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Prosciutto, Spinach and Basil Frittata

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This is the Frittata that nearly didn’t make it. At the weekends I have recently been tormenting myself with what to cook for lunch. We normally get Drake (our son) down for a nap, which can last from 30mins to 3 hours depending on… er, depending on god knows to be honest.

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MRI!

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Nope, that isn’t my noggin. I don’t have any nasty tumors (I don’t think so anyhow).. but I thought some people might actually find this entertaining/interesting though.

I got an email this week from a researcher at a University (that shall remain nameless..), asking me about my photography. I get emails from time to time from people asking if they can use my food shots for certain things, but never this..

The researchers I guess are doing some studies into how we react to apparently appetizing food. They want to use a photograph or two of mine, and show them to people that are in an MRI machine.. They then go ahead and measure brain responses to the images presented.

Sounds like pretty interesting stuff! The cool thing is that they are going to send me the results of the tests.

As a complete science geek, this made my week.