I actually wrote this post last weekend, and planned to publish it today. During the week we have seen the awful terrorist attacks in Paris which have shocked us all, and it prompted me to add an extra note before publishing. I love Paris: working for a French company, having lots of French friends, and […]
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St Patrick’s Day Irish stew, chocolate Guinness cake and Baileys ice cream
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 […]
A St David’s Day feast of Welsh goodness
I am not Welsh. Well, officially I am a quarter Welsh, as my maternal grandmother was born in Aberdare (although she didn’t sound Welsh, and the only Welsh-ness I really remember from her is her love of Neil Kinnock). Plus my boyfriend is 100% Welsh, despite being born in Ipswich (he says he was born […]
Cymru am byth
A Welsh feast, cooked by a Londoner, for the French … still with me? After our week on holiday in Somerset and Wales, eating traditional, local food and collecting cookbooks and treats from every place we visited, a Welsh themed meal was the only option when cooking for my lovely French friends, Odile and Sophie. […]