I think one of the best things I have ever done (well, in terms of feeding my greed, at least) is signing up to mailing lists of restaurants I like. It’s great when you get an email in your mailbox telling you about a new restaurant which is opening, especially when it invites you to […]
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GBBO 2014 challenge week 5 – Somerset apple tart
Pies and tarts were the subject of this week’s Bake Off, and Norman (who practically dredged the entire studio in icing sugar when he ‘dusted’ his tarte au citron) was booted off, despite the fact that they are one baker down now that Diana has pulled out of the series due to illness. I think the […]
A feast of Pink Lady apples
The other day I was sourcing some new recipes and happened to mention to a lady who does the PR for Pink Lady apples (I hadn’t realised that apples needed their own PR, so you really do learn something new every day) that I needed to find some apple recipes, as puddings made from apples […]
South African Bobotie
I like to think of myself as being quite adventurous in the kitchen (by which I mean that I am adventurous as a cook, not that I have a climbing wall in the kitchen or abseil down from the bathroom each morning), but there are a few food combinations that just leave me cold, and […]
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Seven sublime courses at Ink, thanks to Zomato
I was recently contacted by Zomato about contributing on their website – a restaurant discovery platform. I’d never heard of them before, but met someone from their team to find out about them, and came away impressed by what they do: Zomato provides a simple website and mobile app, which is free to download and use, […]
A lighter meal with Quark
I came across Quark a few years ago when I was doing Weightwatchers to shed some pounds. All the other ladies I met were shouting about how wonderful it was because it tasted creamy despite being almost fat free, and so I found myself experimenting with Quark on their recommendation: making cheesecakes and eton mess […]
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Birthday dinner at The Berkeley by Marcus Wareing
Andrew and I went through a stage a few years ago where we went to a lot of Michelin-starred restaurants, but then we decided to buy a house and realised that going out to posh places wasn’t compatible with saving money for a house, and we pretty much stopped going out for dinner all together. […]
E is for Ecuador – El Rincon Quiteno
Thanks to the recent arrival of Henry, Charlotte’s adorable little baby boy, we haven’t had much opportunity to move ahead with Alphabet Adventures. But Charlotte decided to make the best possible use of her maternity leave (during breaks from caring for Henry, of course!) by searching for a restaurant so that we could continue our adventures […]
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Mexican street food at Jenius Social
Even if you are a good cook (or at least if you think you are) you can still always learn more: a cuisine you are not too familiar with, a new style of cooking, or a technique or two to make your life a bit easier in the kitchen. I love going to cookery schools to […]
Creamy chicken orzo and mini victoria sponges
When I recently visited my lovely friend Charlotte (recently a new mum to the beautiful Henry, and one of my Alphabet Adventures buddies), her mum Jill made us a gorgeous dinner of creamy orzo pasta with chicken, followed by a lemon fudge cheesecake. Jo, the third in our AA trio, was also there and we had a […]