Planes, Trains & Anchovies
Welcome to Chris & Eddie’s weird Blog. It’s food, it’s travel, it’s recipes, it’s music, it’s parties at home, it’s tips for entertaining and restaurants to check out, it’s basically the mad jumble our lives tend to be. It’s not about amassing followers or making money, we just want to share our experiences with our friends and their friends and people who might become friends.
Pictures from our travels
The two of us in Kyoto in Autumn, the Bar Awards in Singapore, were we did a pop-up with our barmen, on the canals in Kerala, in Barcelona with Albert Adria and Amin, our executive chef in Barcelona and a view of a small yakitori kitchen in Tokyo.
Latest from the Blog

Spicy Tomato Salad, Asian Style
Eddie was making us a nice Chinese dinner when I suddenly felt like having some tomato salad. So I was left with trying to figure out how to make a tomato salad that would not stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of stir fried vegetables and kung po prawns (recipes will follow),Continue reading “Spicy Tomato Salad, Asian Style”

Stracciatella – Italian Egg Drop Soup
Here’s a soup that makes me smile. It’s a Sunday morning, I walk into the kitchen of my Italian friend’s mother and the whole place is filled with the smell of simmering stock. It’s not just chicken stock, that much is obvious. The Parmesan rinds that were saved up for this soup are floating inContinue reading “Stracciatella – Italian Egg Drop Soup”

Choy Sum with Oyster Sauce and Fried Garlic
One of the things we miss during the lockdown is coffeeshop vegetables. Simply boiled greens with a tasty sauce just poured over. It’s one of those things we don’t have delivered because the greens arrive brown and soggy and the sauce has lost its freshness. So I make it. It is really simple, once youContinue reading “Choy Sum with Oyster Sauce and Fried Garlic”
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And here’s a list of what you have missed so far:
- Spicy Tomato Salad, Asian Style
- Stracciatella – Italian Egg Drop Soup
- Choy Sum with Oyster Sauce and Fried Garlic
- Coq au Vin Façon du Chef
- The Runny Egg Series
- Paccheri with Morels and Porcini Mushrooms
- Eggs Benedict in Ten Minutes
- Pineapple Tarte Tatin
- Smoked Salmon Ricotta Quenelles with Fennel Cream Sauce
- Brown Butter, Sage & Cheese Omelette
- Hokkien Fried Noodles
- Le Quatre Quarts
- Here We Go Again…
- Homemade Pork Lard
- Pâté de Campagne – Rustic Pork Pâté
- A Happy New Year