Apologies for the recent silence (which you may, in fact, be grateful for) but I have been away in beautiful Brugge and also been suffering with a nasty cold, so not really fancied being sat in front of the laptop typing about food. I am still sick with that nasty taste in your mouth you […]
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Hainanese Chicken Rice
I am basically a lazy cook. Recipes which appeal to me are those which have ingredients already in my house; that are simple enough for me to cut corners with (I don’t want to have to get the food processor out to chop those ingredients when I have to spend ages washing it up afterwards); […]
A thousand leaves, and a thousand calories
We had some friends over for Sunday lunch at the weekend, and it didn’t take me long to decide that I was going to cook roast beef and all the trimmings. Pudding was a bit harder to decide on, as I didn’t want anything too heavy. I asked people on my Facebook page but they […]
Cooking up a Storm book review
One of the only good things about my long tube commute is the chance i have to read books – on the odd occasion I actually manage to get a seat on the tube, I like to switch on my kindle and escape into another world for 30 minutes, until I realise I am just […]
Mishkins ‘kind of Jewish deli’
Okay, so I don’t want to turn this into a restaurant review blog, because let’s not forget this is all about MY amazing (ahem) food. But after a couple of years of barely eating out at all (saving to buy our first house / saving to buy things to go into our first house), we’ve […]
You can’t beat a homemade custard cream
A couple of years ago, I had a bright idea to liven up everyone’s Fridays at work with “elevenses” – each team member would take turns to bake or buy a little treat for everyone else to have at 11am every Friday. I thought it would be a good chance to take 20 minutes out […]
Food for when you have eaten too much chocolate
My diet hasn’t exactly been restrained over the last few days / weeks (months) and so because I have a 1.2 kilo chocolate Easter egg to munch on, I decided to be relatively healthy last week. What I mean is that I decided to practically starve myself at breakfast and lunch, go to the gym, […]
Creme egg cheesecake
I can’t remember where I first saw the phenomenon that is creme egg cheesecake, but as soon as I did I knew I had to make it. I googled various recipes which are available online, and ended up using a few tips from each one I found to make the following recipe. I didn’t think […]
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Easter eggstravaganza
Okay, so I don’t even know why I decided to cook so much food this weekend, considering I knew that I would be eating one or two teeny weeny bits of chocolate egg … but I did, and in between bouts of Easter egg gorging (the less said, the better), the following made reasonably balanced […]
Boldly going … where millions of food bloggers have been before
When I originally started this blog in October 2012 (nearly half a year ago, how time flies eh?), the idea was to firstly see whether I had actually managed to maintain it by Christmas, and secondly read back through it to decide whether it was suitable to launch on an unsuspecting public, or more akin […]