Taberna
Feed your friends, family, loved ones and pets...
...and secure their adoration and worship for a lifetime.
Greece India Morroco Italy Spain Mexico USA Turkey UK
China Mauritius Tunisia Lebanon Cyprus
So what's it all about?
"My name is Mike and I'm a food addict." OK, so now you have a mental image of a thirty stone guy trudging endlessly between fast food joints like a rather porky zombie in his search for his next meal. Not good.
OK, so perhaps the term "foody" is more accurate then? I love food from all countries and spend more of my waking time than is probably good for me, thinking about what I'm going to be cooking next, reading recipe books or watching cookery programmes.
I'm not sure where the obsession started, but I suspect it all came about through travel. Like a lot of people, I was having some amazing meals whilst on holiday and when I got home, wanted to try to recreate them and perhaps capture some of that holiday feeling again.
So this site is simply a collection of recipes that I have invented, collected, and mutated over the last few years. Some of them are just a "best attempt" at recreating something I have experienced whilst out and about.
I then decided to find an online home for them so that I could share them with friends and family.
I'm not Heston Blumenthal wannabe and I really can't be bothered with overly complex, difficult recipes. So the key theme with this site is that everything is really simple to make, but very tasty. Some will even allow you to bask in the kudos, and adoration, of your loved ones at BBQs and parties with the barest minimum of effort.
My philosophy is that recipes are just guidelines. Try them once and then tweak them to suit your own taste, that's part of the fun. And don't get hung up on "authenticity". What's authentic now, was likely completely different 100 years ago, so don't worry or let food snobs give you a hard time.
Enjoy!
Mike.