A few days ago I received an email asking if I’d like to review a new series on Netflix called ‘Chef’s Table’. The six episode series is due to launch on 26 April (as with all Netflix series, the whole batch of episodes launches at the same time), but I would be able to access […]
Three ways with Tabasco in a #Funwithflavour challenge
A few years ago, if anyone had ever suggested to me that I would be using Tabasco in a starter, main course AND pudding I would have reminded them that I am weak around chilli, and when I was younger used to find tomato ketchup too spicy. However, times change, and although I am still […]
Week 16 – pizza, curry, a slap-up meal with the Canadians and Star Wars
This week has truly been a week of delicious food, despite almost all my plans going to pot. I started the week properly with beef curry and brown rice as planned, cooked as my plumber started working on the installation of a new boiler. I had forgotten that not having hot water extended to the […]
Week 15 – an All Blacks themed 40th birthday cake
It has been a busy old week this week with some birthday baking for our friend Danny, who just turned 40. His wife Monika asked me to bake him a birthday cake for his party, something chocolate-y, and as I had the perfect chocolate cake in my repertoire from Henry’s christening cake, I was happy […]
Cookbook Challenge – Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food: irresistible pork buns & potted custard
When I originally started my Cookbook Challenge I said it was because I wanted to avoid always picking recipes from my favourite stand-by books, generally by Nigella and Jamie. But when Andrew is picking the book each week and happens to have seen a TV show with Jamie Oliver making ‘irresistible pork buns’, there’s not […]
- Eating out
- ...
Viva – Barcelona
When I went to Barcelona in March 2010 it was pre-blogging days, and so I never wrote about the lovely experience of this gem in Catalonia. Then recently I had the chance to work with the Catalunya tourist board – they were offering bottles of Catalonian wine to bloggers who had visited the area and […]
Week 14 – did somebody mention CHOCOLATE? And a trip to La Patisserie des Reves
Well, I am pleased to say that Andrew wisely listened to my pleads (demands) and bought me a lovely – and huge – Cocoa Loco egg again this year, so I’ll be munching on chocolate for a few weeks (even I can’t get through 1.2kg of delicious rich chocolate that quickly). Of course that means […]
Foodie penpals – March 2015
I always put a lot of thought into the foodie penpals parcels I put together, but this month I was paired with Rebecca in Wales, and she told me she would treasure anything local that I sent her. I often say the same to others, but I must say that I struggled to find something […]
Week 13 – and a few kitchen disasters
I am a bit late posting up my plans for this week … mainly due to my first kitchen disaster: a bout of food poisoning. As much as I hate to blame my own culinary skills for anything, I fear that a night of intense sickness during the early hours of Sunday morning – from which […]
Cookbook Challenge – Two Greedy Italians: classic lasagne
Who doesn’t love lasagne eh? Most home cooks will have their own version, whether it’s made using a jar of sauce (which is how I first started making mine years ago, and I used to love eating the white sauce out of the jar with a spoon!), or a skinny version with leeks instead of […]