The Geometry of Pasta from Amy Lines on Vimeo.

Great list from some of the UKs great chefs. I’ve always wondered what food these guys would be cooking at home, for their family. I can’t imagine that Heston whips up a quick bacon and eggs ice cream on a Saturday night to watch in front of X-Factor. Instead, he’d probably use one of these recipes.

Quick, simple, easy and damned tasty. Peach, tomato, basil salad… prawns, courgette and beans on toast…  red mullet with wilted lettuce and fresh peas… strawberries with almond creme anglaise… nachos….

The internet has plenty of great recipe sharing sites. Awesome, because we love food at TheScrapBook. Cutting data by blog, photo, ingredient, occasion, time of day… if you could be bothered I’m sure you’d have some truly awesome food sites.

Though neither of these quite do the potnetial justice, we tend to stick to Tastespotting and Open Source Food (who’ve now changed their name to “Nibbledish“, but frankly I always thought they should have been called “Open Sauce Food”…)

Another missed opportunity to be “punny” is DesignSponge’s occasional “In the Kitchen With” series. Not punny in the name of the section, but they could have suggested that each of their guests creates a “design sponge”. Perhaps a bit silly, but I think a rather cool brief.

Let us know what your favourite food aggregator sites are.

Grupo Hera, a Spanish waste management and consulting firm commissioned a sustainably designed cava gift box from Ciclus with the theme of turning waste into resources. This wine bottle package turns into a lamp with the small addition of a light bulb. I’m not sure that including the electrical components for the light with the package is the most sustainable way of doing this transformation, but it’s certainly an easy and convenient way to get into recycling. And that’s a significantly underestimated aspect of “green” marketing and design.

Via Treehugger

Do you like Peanut Butter? Make your own. Buy this machine below and experiment with different types of nutty butter. Cashew might be good.

I really liked the post about Open Source Food but the site I’ve been most inspired by for my own cooking has been Tastespotting. It’s gone through a couple of changes recently – I believe that it was set up by NotCot initially, but has since been taken over by someone else. It’s essentially a blog aggregator for recipes and articles about food, usually accompanied by great photography too, but one that has pushed me to create some great meals!

The Open Source Food site is just too good. I’m also really really hungry which makes it even better. though i may end up going to waitrose and spending a lot of money on specialist ingredients i will never use…

arrghhh i’m so hungry now!!!

when i have some spare time i’ll put up the cyclists flapjack recipe. it’s outrageous!

Super hungry this morning and got a hankering for some Kaviar. It may look a bit wrong – i don’t generally agree with food from tubes, but does anyone know where (other than IKEA) it is possible to buy Kalles Kaviar in the UK??? It’s seriously VERY good.

preferably mail order… i’ll even pay for postage from Sweden…