After our trip to Wales, which included a day out in Pembrokeshire to visit Andrew’s parents where they were staying, they decided to come to London to visit us. We hadn’t seen them since before Christmas, so it seemed only right that we had a Christmas meal together before we exchanged our gifts. We started […]
Week 5 – celebrating our 20th anniversary at The Hardwick in Abergavenny
Andrew and I met at the start of our second year at university, when we moved into the same house together. 3 months later we started seeing eachother, and that was 20 years ago on 25 January 2016. Sometimes I cannot believe we’ve been so happy together for so long, especially as we’ve lived with […]
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Grandcoeur Restaurant & Brasserie – Paris (review)
After my rather unsatisfactory experience at an Ethiopian restaurant in Paris, my faith was restored when my colleagues and I visited GrandCoeur in the Marais district of Paris. We’d spent the day together action planning for 2016 and were all rather exhausted, but immediately perked up as we entered the beautiful restaurant, which was quiet […]
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Week 4 – a birthday meal at Grain Store
One of my favourite traditions is the one that my friend Jo and I share, and that is to treat eachother to a birthday meal each year. We used to go with our friend Niasha who has now moved back to Sri Lanka, and sometimes Charlotte of Alphabet Adventures joins us, but we never miss it. This […]
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Week 3 – Ethiopian food in … Paris
Okay, okay, I know it’s not week 3 of the year and we are actually already in February (seriously, where is this year going?!) but I am desperately trying to catch up on some blog posts as I’ve had a lot of foodie fun but not enough time to write about it recently. So, back […]
Week 2 – come on kitchen … please be finished
Oh this bloody kitchen … it goes on, and on, and on. This week we not only had to contend with staying out of the kitchen while the floor was levelled, but our drain decided to pack up. After a bit of DIY drain-cleaning, the builder noticed that paper seemed to be making an appearance […]
Week 1 2016 – playing with my new toy: a KitchenAid Cook Processor
Andrew bought me a KitchenAid Cook Processor for Christmas, another almond cream beauty to add to my KitchenAid collection. I’d never heard of it before, but the Cook Processor is essentially an all in one preparation and cooking gadget with pre-programmed options to allow even a kitchen novice (ie Andrew) to cook a slap up […]
An ‘It’s Not Easy Being Greedy’ 2015 year in review
Happy New Year! 2015 for us has been a good year personally, professionally, and for the blog, and I have high hopes and expectations for our adventures in 2016. Before writing this post I decided to take a look back at my 2015 blogging resolutions, and like all good new year’s resolutions I have managed […]
Week 52 – leftovers, leftovers and more leftovers
I love Christmas but I am not a massive fan of leftovers, as I don’t enjoy eating the same thing over and over again. However, it is impossible for me (regardless of Christmas) to under-cater, so I always end up with leftovers. As I hate wasting food, I have to eat everything, but it often means […]
Week 51 – countdown to Christmas
There’s not much I like more than planning meals and writing lists, but because of my various kitchen disasters I haven’t been able to plan anything lately. But, although we won’t have our kitchen finished for Christmas, I will have (and in fact already do have) a working oven, fridge freezer, dishwasher and washing machine, […]