For my first cookbook challenge of 2015 (ever, in fact!) Andrew picked the Mexican book he bought me for Christmas: ‘Mexico: the cookbook‘ by Margarita Carrillo Arronte. It’s a beautiful looking book with a vibrant pink and orange cover; and a serious one too: interspersed with occasional images (only one in every ten recipes has a […]
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Week 2 – still hungry, still trying to ignore the Ferrero Rocher …
The box of Ferrero Rocher I bought for Christmas is still singing to me, but I am trying to ignore it as I won’t just eat one – I’ll eat them all. I know they are desperately unfashionable chocolates, but I adore them. Creamy Nutella and crunchy nutty coating – delicious. I’ll open the box once […]
My blogging new year’s resolutions for 2015
I write this blog because I love talking about food, and I am so proud of the fact that some of you like reading about it as well. I have had some wonderful experiences thanks to It’s not easy being greedy, and here I am, over 2 years after starting the blog, still finding things […]
Week 1 – a healthy start to 2015
Well, I know I am going to be STARVING hungry this week, as my body tries to re-adapt to a regular diet, instead of the festive ‘eat and drink anything you like’ diet. So, taking my own advice, I have planned my meals for the rest of this week. I love planning what I am going […]
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 […]
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 […]
Curry pizza from Curry Dave – review
When I was approached by ‘Curry Dave’ to review his range of curry pizzas (“currizzas”), I wasn’t exactly optimistic about the prospect. I like pizza, and I like curry, but a combination of the two sounded a bit weird and not very appetising. However, it did occur to me that the Curry Dave range might […]