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Indian Style Potatoes with Hot Smoked Salmon
With rather a lot of leftover potatoes we weren’t entirely sure how to use them up. We briefly discussed lamb chops as an accompaniment but when I got to work I noticed some half-price hot smoked salmon and, never being able to resist a bargain, I brought that home. I’d intended to use [...]
Read More..>>Indian Style Butternut Squash with Dry Potatoes
After vowing last week to make more regular updates, I’ve slipped again and this is almost a week old. Sorry, this week things will definitely be back to normal.
We’d had a butternut squash hanging around the kitchen for a while that really needed to be used so Stephen came up with this recipe for [...]
Bruschetta and Coq au Vin
We spent a brilliant New Year’s Eve with some friends who have just moved into a new house. Since they weren’t familiar with their kitchen, we offered to cook something to bring with us and ended up settling on coq au vin (similar to this recipe but not completely, I’ll update the recipe at [...]
Read More..>>And the Winner Is…
The winner of the Little Break to Lille competition courtesy of Eurostar is Sarah for her hairy duck story (we asked the PR company to decide on the winner). Congratulations Sarah and thank you to everyone who shared their amusing and, at time, horrifying stories! We’ll leave you with Sarah’s tale:
The worst ever food experience [...]
Home Grown Tomatoes!
A couple of years ago, we tried to grow various sorts of vegetables in our garden but a freak hailstorm killed almost all of them except for a handful of tiny carrots. So, disheartened, last year we didn’t try to grow much in the way of edible plants. This year we weren’t planning [...]
Read More..>>And the Winner Is…
…Caroline! Congratulations, you win the bottle of Gordon’s gin and the glasses!
We ended up deferring to the PR company behind Gordon’s gin in the end as we couldn’t find a decent random generator online. I’ll be in touch.
Thank you to everyone who entered, this is the first competition we’ve ever run and we were [...]
Happy Friday!
To celebrate Fridays with Gordon, we’ve just received a bottle of Gordon’s gin and a set of glasses. It would be rude not to partake so Stephen mixed us a gin and tonic to celebrate the start of the weekend.
If you would like to receive the same*, then just leave us a [...]
Fancy a Little Break to Lille?
The lovely people at Eurostar have kindly offered us a pair of tickets to give away so that you can go on your own Little Break to Lille, just like Stephen and I did earlier in the month.
All you need to do is leave us a comment (before the end of September) telling us about [...]
Sweden
We arrived back from a long weekend in Sweden this afternoon. We went over because I was playing cricket and we were staying in a small town so there wasn’t a lot of opportunity to do much gastronomic exploring, but we took a few pictures of anything other than our staple diet of crisps [...]
Read More..>>Sipsmith Distillery in Hammersmith
Hidden behind a rather unassuming but freshly painted blue door on a quiet residential street in Hammersmith is something quite extraordinary – London’s first new copper still distillery for 190 years. This is the brainchild of Fairfax and Sam who, with their master distiller Jared, distil hand-crafted vodka and gin here at their curiously [...]
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