I am not one for having loads of sauces with my food – I like ketchup and mayonnaise with chips, but otherwise I rarely have sauces on my plate. By sauces I mean the ones in jars and bottles, like ketchup, salad cream, hollandaise etc. I don’t mean gravy, which I love, and if I […]
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Week 8 2017 – a dinner party disaster
I love having friends over for food – I take a lot of pleasure in planning and preparing a meal, and serving it to my friends. I am a confident cook, so rarely worry about potential kitchen disasters: I just prepare as much as possible in advance so that I can spend most of my […]
Cravings
I think when someone is a naturally greedy person, such as myself, it’s natural to crave food. While eating my lunch I can be thinking about what I am going to have for dinner, and sometimes I’ll find myself in a kind of reverie of food, imagining a delicious slice of cheese or piece of […]
Weeks 24 & 25 – birthday binging in style
My few regular fans (hi Mum!) may have noticed that I missed last week’s meal plan. This is because I was in no position to type: I was either eating, in a stupor recovering from eating, or listening to live music (whilst eating). Annoyingly I also had to fit in the usual work-related tasks which […]
Week 21 – Fleetwood Mac, Aliens and The Beach Boys
This week is basically going to be a week of going out, so there’s not going to be much cooking happening. But the going out is going to be very exciting. We’ve got Fleetwood Mac at the O2 (The Chain is one of my all-time favourite songs), then I am going to a food blogging […]
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Steaks at Hawksmoor – nice but expensive
Firstly, excuse the dark photos on this post … I didn’t want to disturb fellow diners and use my flash, so consequently you can’t see much on each piccie! Secondly, I love steak. I don’t eat a huge amount of red meat … I don’t think … I try not to anyway, as it has […]
A belated birthday night out at Joe Allen
For my birthday in June, I wanted to eat at Joe Allen restaurant in Covent Garden. The reason for this was because of a Jay Rayner review in the Observer – I like his reviews anyway, and have been rewarded by following his previous recommendations, including Mishkins. I also love Marina O’Loughlin’s reviews in the […]
Cake, bread and more cake
I made my mum’s 60th birthday cake on Sunday using the recipe described in my last blog, and also decorated it on Monday. In fact, the sponge was a slight disaster, because I added a packet of caramel chocolate drops I had been given at last year’s Cake and Bake show, and I forgot to […]
Sous-vide-tastic
Andrew bought me a sous-vide set for Christmas: a water bath, vacuum set and the food safe bags to cook food in. At Christmas I made spiced apples in there, and last week I experimented twice. Firstly I tried sous-vide salmon. This was not as successful as I had hoped. I added a little lemon […]
Hello 2013!
Well, it is another year and a new start for me, like so many others. Whilst I was miserable at being sick all over Christmas, it did have a benefit of allowing me to lose 3.5lbs, unheard of around Christmas! That’s not as impressive as it sounds, because I did stuff my face for the […]