Best Bacon Roll in London

Every morning on my walk from Cannon Street station to the office i have to resist the fantastic smell of cooked bacon that wafts from the butchers shop on Wattling street. 

The aroma of freshly cooked bacon is so enticing that sometimes i just cant resist and find myself drawn into the shop to hand over £2.50 for what i believe to be the best bacon roll in London.

The secret seems to be that before the four slices of bacon are expertly inserted into a freshly baked warm baguette, they are first cooked in the juices of other meats, to give the bacon a really meaty, juicy, slightly spicy flavour that is totally out of this world!

I defy any non-vegetarian to be able to walk past this place first thing in the morning and not be tempted to buy one!!

Exploding Aubergine Leaves Alien Remains.



Ok, so the weird looking "inside out alien thing" in the photo below is not the mangled remains of a crashed extra-terrestrial UFO pilot, its origins are from much closer to home.

 Believe it or not this is what an aubergine looks like after its been baked in the oven for slightly too long and explodes.

Not really too sure what went wrong, but  I guess it was in the oven a bit too long, and we should have probably put a couple of holes in it to release the steam, but we didn't, so when it came out the oven it exploded with a loud "POP" scattering its tentacle like innards all over the chopping board.

The noise was so loud i heard it from a another room, and actually thought the oven had exploded as it sounded  just like an electrical explosion..

But look at it! its hideous, it really does look like some kind of exploded squid or alien creature.... but mixed with some garlic and blended down, it still tasted great :)

I found a Caterpillar in my Itsu beans!!

I was just tucking into my Itsu edamame beans, when i suddenly felt something a bit unusual in my mouth. I took the bean out of my mouth and was shocked to see a little caterpillar sat on the side of the bean!!

After close inspection, I could see a tiny hole in the side of the bean shell where the unfortunate caterpillar had crawled in, presumably intending to one day emerge as a beautiful butterfly.

Unfortunately for this little guy, his new found bean house was plucked from its plant, and shipped thousands of miles across the globe to be put on sale as a tasty snack in a London branch of Itsu.
Instead of emerging from the bean as a delicate butterfly, the dead lifeless body of the wiggly little creature was squeezed from the bean and was lucky not to have been chewed up along with the rest of the bean's content.

Slightly alarmed by my findings, i contacted Itsu, and was told that i wasn't the first person to discover a caterpillar in my beans but it was very rare. They also explained that because they source their produce from farmers who dont use nasty chemicals or pesticides, a certain number of caterpillars were bound to slip through their quality control process, and they offered me a free lunch for my troubles.

All in all, quite a strange experience, but no harm done, no caterpillars swallowed, i got offered a free lunch! Also its good to know that the food i was eating was from a natural, chemical free farm where tiny little creatures like this are still allowed to live.  it certainly hasn't put me off eating Itsu beans, but i do now find my self examining them for entry holes!!