In this week’s episode Lois and Matthew talk all things kitchen gadgets. Or are they utensils? Or appliances?

Dad n’ daughter attempt to categorise these as as they discuss their most used, such as trusty silicone spatulas, the Kenwood Chef or TONGS, and the useless (?) - garlic crushers, honey twirlers, herb blitzers and others. And what about the bigger ticket items? The microwave, ice-cream machines or even the one-stop shop Thermomix? There to help or hinder…?

Have a listen and you may find yourself diving into your own kitchen “danger drawer” to see what’s lurking beneath the counter!  

----

Follow us on Instagram: @fortsonfood

Hosted by Matthew Fort and Lois Fort

Produced by Teän Stewart-Murray

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Forts on Food with Friends. This week, Matthew and Lois are joined by YouTube sensation and dear old friend Max Fosh.

Max Fosh has been richer than Elon Musk (for 7 minutes); a member of the royal family (for 43 minutes); spent 24 hours with an elephant in the room; ran for Mayor of London (unsuccessfully); and got a speeding ticket on a bicycle... for Jeff Bezos. Max Fosh is a comedian, prankster and YouTube sensation. He has 1.47 million subscribers and his videos have over 121 million views. Lois and Matthew have a candid chat with this master of modern media and his rather surprising views on food. (Max tried to persuade Matthew to appear in video about collecting, cooking and eating a road-killed pheasant. Sadly Matthew had to refuse and so missed out on being viewed 2.8 million times.)

----

Follow us on Instagram: @fortsonfood

Hosted by Matthew Fort and Lois Fort

Produced by Teän Stewart-Murray

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lois and Matthew settle down to discuss the joys and sources of comfort food. What goes into a comfort dish? Novelty or nostalgia? Hot or cold? Is there such thing as a light comfort dish? (Probably not, given Matthew’s choice of egg & bacon sarnie made with cheap bread fried in bacon fat and Lois’s choice of cheesy pasta with ham and peas). And what do we mean by comfort anyway? Dad’s & daughter’s opinions vary as always but if you need light as well as heat on a dreary, miserable day, just settle down on a sofa or armchair (definitely not a table), with a bowl (not a plate) and a spoon (not a fork), tuck into your favourite comfort food and take comfort from Forts on Food.

----

Follow us on Instagram: @fortsonfood

Hosted by Matthew Fort and Lois Fort

Produced by Teän Stewart-Murray

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Forts on Food with Friends. This week, Matthew and Lois are joined by none other than Dame Prue Leith.

Prue Leith is campaigner, chef, broadcaster, novelist, restaurateur cooker writer, cookery school founder, journalist, queen of GBBO, once of GBM and total charmer and the very first guest Matthew & Lois have asked to join them on Forts on Food. They chat about Bliss on Toast, Prue’s latest cook book, that raises toasted snacks to delicious heights, the past glories of the Great British Menu, how food in the UK has changed over the years, why Bake Off has been such a success, the joy of afternoon naps, growing up in South Africa, the Prue Leith Travelling Road Show, the travails of the food campaigner, adoption and Prue’s very own Dirty Dish. And much, much more.

----

Follow us on Instagram: @fortsonfood

Hosted by Matthew Fort and Lois Fort

Produced by Teän Stewart-Murray

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They’re back, Matthew & Lois, dad’n’daughter, old ’n’ young, chatting about this ’n’ that just so long as it’s about food. In Episode 1 of Season 2, they catch up with what they’ve been cooking and eating since the end of the first series in July; fondly reminisce about a barbecued shoulder of lamb; sea bass baked in salt crust; and the epic magnificence of a fish stew they made together. There’s a bit about dinner at Kebab Queen eaten without cutlery or plates; a celebration lunch at the Clipstone Restaurant; what’s a Dirty Dish; and they introduce their first guest, Prue Leith.

----

Follow us on Instagram: @fortsonfood

Hosted by Matthew Fort and Lois Fort

Produced by Teän Stewart-Murray

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the season finale of Forts on Food.

In which: dad & daughter cook together in dad’s kitchen; each has to prepare a dish based on results of an Instagram poll on how much people spend on weeknight supper - around £10 or £15 -£20; Lois goes veggie; Matthew takes the meat option; pricing the ingredients; cooking step by step; why each is doing their dish; the timing of soft boiled eggs; running commentary on the how’s and why’s; the importance of tasting as you go; time to judge; Lois’s boyfriend, Peter, has the last word; the pleasure of cooking together. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which: dad and daughter tackle waste: how much we waste; why we waste it; the waste of waste; what we can do about it; planning; changing pattern of shopping; social and work pressures; how supermarkets sell us more than we need ; most portions for two or more;- tyranny of eat by, use by dates; delegation of food responsibilities to supermarkets, hygiene experts; why we should learn to trust ours senses again; the lost art of complaining; the consequences of cheap food; the love of baked beans.

Lois’s tip: juicing up; Matthew’s tip: fried breadcrumbs; joint tip: keep a watch on waste. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which: daughter and dad wonder why they go to restaurants; ponder on the importance of service; dwell on the delights of the Yummy Yummy Noodle Bar, Dorego’s and the magic of the Fat Duck; Lois remembers lunch at the Locanda Cipriani; Matthew remembers lunch at the station at Villarosa in Sicily; examine why we go to different restaurants on different occasions for different reasons; celebrate the theatre of restaurants; hail pubs, pop ups and the golden age of current British chefs; bewail the burden of the restaurant critic.

Lois’s tip: think small. Matthew’s tip: booze buster

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which: dad and daughter deliberate on the difference between diet and diets; Lois sings about the joy of Sri Lanka fish curry and sticky rice; Matthew laments the relationship between fish curry and gout; Lois talks about her vegan detox; Matthew explains the mysteries of micro-biome and touches on the links between diet and mental health; they both agree that variety is the spice of life and that it’s better to eat better but eat less; Matthew reveals that the true Mediterranean diet involved dollops of pig fat.

Tips: Lois: what to do with plastic gloves; Matthew: his favourite kitchen implement. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which: Matthew talks about some of his food hates and the history of Lollo Rosso; and Lois talks about her food hates; dad lectures daughter on food and guilt; they agree to disagree on words and phrases commonly used to describe food; Matthew mentions Franz Kafka, the demon chewer; Lois moans about butter pies, chip butties and the Wigan kebab; Matthew mentions his mother’s recipes for deep-fried suet cakes. Lois lists her food loves and Matthew lists his; they disagree about garlic powder.

Matthew’s tip: putting zip into a Bloody Mary. Lois’s tip: putting zip into a gin and tonic. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.