Simon and Jo's Foodcast: Recent Episodes
Simon Pillinger
Simon and Jo take an irreverent approach to kitchen successes and culinary calamities, food history, and edible controversies.
This week it's all about barbecues, pizza ovens, charcoal, and smoking! Jo expands her foliage-based hatred, gets moony eyed for lamb neck fillet, and Si lambasts gas barbecues.
We said we'd talk about it, so we have - it's Jo and Si on weight loss, weight gain, the stresses and strains of life. We also lose our rag at silly things.
Jo and Simon talk about fetes and Jo's award winning lemon curd. Jo sounds off about misleading food photography, and Si waxes lyrical about competitive eating.
Cheese rolling, marrow dangling, and rhubarb thrashing - Jo and Si talk about quaint British food sports.
Happy Easter!!! This week Jo and Si talk about Easter, their plans and traditions. This week's ingredient is the cabbage, which is unfortunately because neither Si nor Jo appear to know what a cabbage is. In the kitchen cringe corner Si opens fire at tiny teeny herb bottles, and Jo reveals her recipe envy.
To celebrate Mother's Day, we invited on no other than Simon's mum to talk about her amazing experiences living in Sri Lanka with two young children. Jo gets infuriated by jus, and Simon lays into Hello Fresh.
This week we're joined by Kate, host of the Flour, Butter, Eggs, and Sugar podcast chatting through the world of baking. We try and find out the bets use for an aubergine, Jo shares her peeves about tinned fruit, and Si champions the metric system.
Simon and Jo talk about Valentine's Day and the best thing you can make with chocolate. Jo get's irate at commercially inflated prices restaurant* prices for special occastion, Si makes a tentative stab at overuse of fondant icing.
*for those listening back in lockdown #74, restaurants were places you could sit down and eat with other people to eat food and drink.
**Simon talks about bucylic acid in this episode, he meant butyric acid.
Jo asks the question on nobody's lips, what makes a dumpling a dumpling? Simon reflects on lockdowns past, present, and lockdowns yet to come, as well as whinging about the paleo-diet while Jo gets upset about pies.
Simon and Jo chat with gluten-free legend Coeliac man, Simon moans about his IBS, and Jo becomes irate about lumps of lumber.
You can find out more about Coeliac Man by checking out his website. If you want some more information about Coeliac disease visit Coeliac UK.
For information about FODMAP check out the NICE guidelines, and research from Monash University
After releasing episode 1.2 on 19 December, our plans sort of changed, as did the plans of a lot of people. We wanted to record a little something to keep you festive during this festive period.
Jo and Simon share their Christmas traditions, and are joined by Dom Saunders, the Weirdy Beardy Barman to talk all things bar work, competitive cocktail making. To make the cocktail you will need 20ml lime juice, 50ml vodka, 1 spoon of marmelade, 40 ml cranberry juice, 15mg apple juice, and a pinch of nutmeg.
Simon and Jo talk about freezers, gammon, class a drugs, and Jo's mortal aversion to peas.
WARNING: This episode contains language younger listeners may find upsetting. We would like to clarify that Father Christmas does indeed exist. Some grown-ups think it's smart to pretend he doesn't.
We're going to be launching our irreverent chat about all things food and drink on 5 December 2020. Come and join us, it'll be a blast.