Age 21 I left University in Belfast with a fist full of academic qualifications and not the slightest idea of what to do next. The previous summer I had blagged my way into a newly opened restaurant on the North coast and worked 3 months as a very, very, very junior chef so it seemed ‘sensible’ then that I should now go back and become a professional chef. I spent 1 year in the Kitchen working and learning and training……and bleeding and drinking and crying and laughing….this blog is a meld of my recipes and my experiences from my time as a professional chef…names have been changed ‘somewhat’ to protect the fucking very guilty………