I am no saint when it comes to food. The title of this blog is It’s not easy being greedy for a reason. I am greedy and it’s not easy … but it’s bloody good fun. However, after a December of over-indulging, I doubt I am the only person to be saying to myself “okay, […]
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Popcorn ice cream sandwich with caramel sauce
Doesn’t that sound like such an amazing dessert? I thought so when I saw it on a menu the other night, and couldn’t resist ordering it. We’d gone to The Elk in the Woods in Islington to meet friends who are back in London from Australia for Christmas, and I had already drunk more than a […]
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Dealing with Christmas leftovers, and a simple tomato soup
Have you eaten too much this festive season? I don’t think I have been too bad, but I have certainly eaten a lot more than normal … big breakfasts, big dinners, puddings, a few sweeties, cheese, crackers, and cake. As there is so much food around, I have felt obliged to keep eating. And as […]
Christmas recipes: prawn cocktail, Charley’s red cabbage, and mulled pear trifle
We had some fabulous meals over the festive period (which is still continuing in our house, although I have tried to calm down … a little bit … on the piggy-ness) – we followed the plan which I shared with you in my last post. And in that post I promised you some festive recipes, […]
Merry Christmas 2014 from It’s not easy being greedy
Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a greedy day with your family and friends. Scroll down past my beautiful (and rather large) Christmas tree to see what I’ll be eating today … Breakfast Cured salmon with potato cakes and green butter sauce, Buck’s Fizz Dinner Prawn cocktail (my recipe […]
Not quite Christmas dinner
When Andrew’s parents came to visit from Wales recently, we thought it would be nice to have a pretend Christmas dinner with a three course meal, crackers and wine. I don’t like turkey at the best of times though, and so chose chicken as our meat of choice for the dinner. What we had was […]
Isi’s Christmas stuffing
I absolutely love Paxo’s sage and onion stuffing: it’s a happy memory from my childhood to have balls of their stuffing with every roast dinner, and although I now make it in a baking tray instead of rolling it into balls (why risk the third degree burns?!), I always have a box in my cupboard […]
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Bier and Bratwurst in … Moorgate …
When I think of eating traditional German food like big fat sausages, roasted hunks of pork, potato dumplings, sauerkraut and more sausages, I don’t think of the City of London. So when I was invited to a German beer tasting at Bierschenke by Zomato, I was a bit dubious. However, I accepted because I really […]
Merry Berry Mistlemoo with Pieminister
I love pies. You can’t really go too far wrong with meat, gravy and pastry … or fruit and pastry. Well, pretty much anything can taste amazing with pastry surrounding it. But there are good pies, and there are not so good pies, and there are awful pies. But my idea of pie hell (I’m […]
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Eating my way around the world – hola from Mexico!
My amazing suntan is not enough compensation for being back in rainy, wintry, cold London … especially as I am going back to work tomorrow. My body still thinks I am six hours behind in Mexico, even though I am forcing myself to get up early to reset my body clock. Also, having come from an […]