we're not going to die yet

We’re not going to die yet.

Gavin Wren YouTube Food Videos

Sitting at my desk last week I decided to film a very quick video on my iPhone, a rant in response to various articles which I had read in the press that day.

George Monbiot doom-mongering about the state of the environment and Giles Coren’s clickbait-esque headline about hating Jane Austen all feature, alongside the amount of calories people eat.

Watch the video on YouTube below or via this link.

Sticky Resealable Tabs

Sticky Resealable Tabs – They Don’t Work

Gavin Wren Food Opinion Pieces, Writing, YouTube Food Videos

OK, time for a rant. Not about Brexit, nor about the future of UK food. Nope, it’s a problem that’s been around for a lot longer than any of those things. It’s about sticky resealable tabs. Sticky resealable tabs. You know those little self adhesive tabs and tags which supermarkets and food producers add to their packets of dried food. Those little self adhesive strips which lose their stickiness within minutes of being exposed to …

Homemade yoghurt video

Homemade Yoghurt Video!

Gavin Wren Basic Ingredients, Food Techniques, Recipes, Writing, YouTube Food Videos

How to make Yoghurt. Last year I created an information packed blog post about how to make yoghurt at home, where I tested a few different techniques that I had read about online to see which one was best. It turned out that they were mostly awful for an Englishman living in London in the cold, early spring, I guess that yoghurt making is easier in warmer climates. One method did shine out as being …

rye croutons with garlic and mustard

Rye Croutons with Garlic and Mustard – Video Recipe

Gavin Wren Basic Ingredients, Recipes, Soup, Vegetarian, Writing, YouTube Food Videos

Add Some crunch to your lunch Croutons are those crunchy, munchy accoutrements of soup which I have to say, rarely get much sway from me. They seemed like an unnecessary adornment to my soup, because I’m often going to get a large doorstep of toasted bread to suck the liquid life out of my soup and transfer it into my mouth, or I just want to eat/drink/slurp the soup, so adding some small bits of …

will it roast red cabbage

WILL IT ROAST? – Part 2 – Red Cabbage

Gavin Wren Food Techniques, Writing, YouTube Food Videos

Will It Roast? ‘Will It Roast?’ is a new celebration of culinary silliness, created in the name of simply messing around in the kitchen, a chance to try out some random ideas that come into my head. In this series I’m taking whole fruit or vegetables and cooking them in their entirety in the oven without chopping, peeling, slicing or preparing them, to see how they come out. I love the idea of creating food …

will it roast butternut squash

WILL IT ROAST – Part 1 – Butternut Squash

Gavin Wren Food Techniques, Writing, YouTube Food Videos

WILL IT ROAST In an entirely new celebration of culinary silliness and in the name of simply messing around in the kitchen, I’ve started a series of videos called WILL IT ROAST. Inspired by a recipe I saw in the NOPI cookbook last year, I’ve started this new series to experiment with vegetables and fruits which aren’t normally roasted whole, to see what happens. If you’ve ever wondered “why am I chopping this up” when …