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, […]
Dinner from my new kitchen: poached eggs on toast
Finally … finally … this happened: Okay, so the set up is not ideal: the electricity is not connected to my new Rangemaster so I can only use the hob, but I have been dreaming of dippy poached eggs for weeks (five weeks to be precise). On the way home from work today I bought […]
Weeks 48, 49 & 50 – yep, still no kitchen
Regular readers will have been enjoying the recent peace and quiet from my side. I haven’t been enjoying it much, but as I sit here eating my delicious Sunday menu of crumpets with marmite for breakfast, crisps and hobnobs for lunch, and re-heated chinese takeaway for dinner, I feel I need to regain some food […]