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Aneke Spacie – Twisted Favourites
I was invited along to the launch of Aneke Spacie’s new book, ‘Twisted Favourites’ which was produced in association with blurb. blurb’s approach to publishing differs from the traditional route and allows individuals to produce high-quality books themselves, with the help of their technology. Aneke’s book was created in just three weeks! After some Prosecco […]
Read More..>>Mint Juleps
While waiting for our pulled pork to cook, mint juleps seemed like a good drink to make, given that they are from a similar geographical area and also seeing as we had loads of rampantly growing mint. They are traditionally served at the Kentucky Derby, in silvery Julep cups, but we made do with highball […]
Read More..>>Chalky’s Bark Beer
Kerri went to Whole Foods today at lunch time, and bought me this as a surprise – a beer named after Rick Stein’s beloved dog Chalky who has now sadly passed away but is still very much alive in many re-runs of his television shows. I rather enjoyed it, along with its interesting addition: ginger, […]
Read More..>>La Dolce Vita
This afternoon, Stephen and I went along to the trade day of La Dolce Vita at Olympia. While not all about food and wine, there was certainly more than enough of both to keep us both occupied for the afternoon. We sampled lots of different oil, cheese and cured meats and were particularly impressed with […]
Read More..>>2009 Resolutions
Generally, I’m not one for making resolutions. January can seem like such a dull month after the excitement of Christmas: it’s cold, the days are short and most people are inevitably trying to eat healthily after the excesses of the previous month. It just doesn’t seem like the right time to go on a diet/get […]
Read More..>>Empty Pies!
After a tough afternoon of standing around on a field of mown grass, punctuated every now and then by brief moments of excitement as a small red thing goes whizzing past, there is nothing better than sitting down to well earned tea. Usually consisting of sandwiches, maybe some small sausage rolls, a glass of squash, […]
Read More..>>Spain
As we’ve already mentioned, Stephen and I have just come back from a week in Spain. We went to Mijas in the south of Spain and were lucky enough to be surrounded by a number of very good restaurants (which we largely found via this brilliant and very useful website). We didn’t take our camera […]
Read More..>>Nearly There…
I was going to post a picture of the chicken casserole we made yesterday and photographed with Stephen’s mobile but it’s not a great picture so I’ll wait until tomorrow when WE GET THE CAMERA BACK! You can look forward to seeing how we manage to make lentils look attractive then 🙂
Read More..>>Service Interruption
We went to visit Stephen’s sister on Saturday and left the camera there so we’re taking an impromptu holiday. Hope to be back soon!
Read More..>>Five Things About Us
First off, let me talk about this picture. Having finished writing this post I realised that I didn’t have a picture to go with it and I’m not keen on posts without pictures, they look out-of-place compared to all the other posts and less interesting. I thought I’d have a hunt around for an interesting […]
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