It’s St Patrick’s day, and even though I only have the most tenuous link to Ireland (I sit opposite an Irish girl at work), I am happy to take any opportunity to join in with the craic. Plus, it’s not every day you have the perfect excuse to make Nigella Lawson’s chocolate Guinness cake, which […]
Eating out
D is for Denmark – Nordic bar
I am slightly in love with all things Nordic – people from that region have beautiful accents, generally are beautiful (who wouldn’t love to be tall and blonde?), and seem to be genuinely nice people. Of course there are always exceptions, but I am yet to find any which have made me love the Nordics […]
Eating my way around Sri Lanka
I can’t tell you how fantastic it is to have a holiday to somewhere hot in January. Christmas is over, the weather is depressingly cold (and wet and windy in the UK at the moment), and there is no time off work to look forward to until the Easter bank holiday. However, this year, when […]
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My favourite meal – proper pie and mash
And I really mean PROPER pie and mash, which comes from the pie and mash shop. I do not mean shortcrust pies or ‘pies’ (not in my book!) half topped with puff pastry, runny insubstantial gravies with the odd piece of meat and mashed potatoes whipped up with cream and butter. Not that there is […]
C is for CHRISTMAS! – The Ship Tavern
Oh I wish it could be Christmas every day … well, actually I don’t. I love Christmas, I really do. But if I ate, drank and made merry like this every day then I would be the size of a house. And not just a 3 bedroom mid-terrace as of today, but a stately home […]
B is for Burma – Mandalay
It’s taken us a while, but finally Jo, Charlotte and I have been able to continue with our Alphabet Adventures and for the letter B we decided to go for Burmese food. There seems to be just one Burmese restaurant in London – the Mandalay in Edgware Road, but it has quite decent reviews (mainly […]
Marvellous Mauritius – Indian, Creole and French treats
We have just spent the most idyllic week in Mauritius – a true tropical paradise in the Indian ocean, full of the friendliest people I have met, and some of the most delicious food I have eaten. Whilst I was sad to return to freezing London, it has been nice to be the only tanned […]
Survival of the fittest
Finally our two weeks of annual leave has started. It hasn’t come a moment too soon as we’re shattered from rushing around at work and rushing around at home. We’ll be going away to Mauritius for a week, but are also enjoying spending some time in London. And a very nice way to start our […]
A is for AUSTRIA – Kipferl
Charlotte, Jo and I did of course have several options for the first letter of our Alphabet Adventures (AA), but we wanted to choose somewhere a bit less obvious than Argentina or America. I remember visiting an Austrian deli in Smithfield called Kipferl, and when I googled it I was pleased to discover that they […]
Alphabet adventures with Charlotte and Joanna – an introduction
“It’s not easy being greedy”: well, that’s not entirely true. Being greedy is no hassle at all – I am without thinking about it. Greedy is me. Unless I am out in public and strangers might be watching me, I eat my dinner like a woman possessed (by the cookie monster). What’s not easy is […]