Featured Blogger #27 Stephen & Kerri from ‘Dinner Diary’

How long have you been blogging about food for?

2.5 years

Who is your favourite tv chef?

I used to be a big fan of Delia Smith and learnt a lot from her. I haven’t enjoyed the cheating she’s been doing lately though. I enjoy watching James Martin on Saturday Kitchen and I especially enjoy it when he has Genaro Contaldo is on - I think he’s hilarious!

Describe your blog in 5 words?

Photographic diary of our dinners

If you could only have one more meal what would it be?

I honestly hope I never have a say in it because I just dont think I’d be able to limit myself to one thing. Right now it would be lasagne(only if I could make it myself though!)

First special food experience memory?

When my mum was sick, my dad cooked my brother and I fishfingers and hamburgers in the same frying pan. My mum was disgusted but we thought it was brilliant.

Corned Beef - The Story Begins

Posted By Kerri

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As you might imagine, I read a lot of food blogs but mostly UK based ones. There are an awful lot of American sites but their seasons are different and so is their produce and it all seems so far away from what’s happening here. I can never remember what arugula is and I don’t really care about baking for the ball game but sometimes I find myself landing on an American site and being pleasantly surprised. This is what happened when I started searching for traditional St Patrick’s Day recipes and I found myself inundated with Americans talking about corned beef and cabbage.

I love corned beef but I just can’t bring myself to eat it anymore. As soon as I started to care more about where food came from and study ingredients lists, I had to give it up. But I really miss toasted corned beef and mustard sandwiches.

The American version is not the same as the corned beef we know in the UK, in fact, it should probably be more accurately called salt beef. I love that too though, especially on a toasted bagel which is why we decided to give it a go ourselves. It’s going to take 10 days though so, for now, here’s a picture of the salt and spice mix.

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