Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
People seem to like my new series about the food highlights of my week. I love writing them and thinking each day about what I’ll add to the next week’s post. So … here goes with the past week’s food. Tuesday – Food & Poetry on Richmond Hill This was the day I met friends […]
Read MoreOver the last decade I’ve turned making short trips into a mini art form in my life: I rarely go away for more than a week and I love hopping on a plane and heading off for a 3- or 4-night break to some vibrant city – often somewhere I know well and like to return to […]
Read MoreI’ve been such a faithful follower of my favourite local Indian restaurant Tangawizi, that it’s taken me literally years to try Swagat, not so far away and just over the other side of Richmond bridge and a little way up Richmond Hill. I’ve heard good things about it and knew the food should be similar as […]
Read MoreFor someone who likes thinking about food so much, these weekly overviews of where I’ve been eating and what I’ve been cooking up in my kitchen provides an excellent excuse to think about food even more! But, as I’ve said before, they also allow me to mention those special places I visit regularly more often […]
Read MoreI was meeting my friends Robert and Jenny for supper and I asked them to suggest a place to eat. They live in the Barbican and I said I was happy to make the journey across London to The City. It’s actually quite easy – direct on the District Line from Richmond to Monument in […]
Read MoreI’ve decided it’s quite fun to do these ‘My Week in Food’ posts occasionally. It gives me a way to mention favourite places I go to regularly but can’t keep writing full posts about; or maybe somewhere new that I don’t want to write an entire post about; and it gives an insight into what […]
Read MoreIt was such a beautiful sunny morning. I couldn’t resist going out for a walk and headed down Twickenham high street towards the river. I went via Corto Italian Deli for a coffee and then from the far end of Church Street, went down on to the riverside and towards Richmond. There was the view […]
Read MoreToday is the Spring Equinox – the first day of Spring. The 19th century poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote: ‘Nothing is so beautiful as Spring.’ To be honest, we’ve had such a mild winter that signs of Spring have been with us for weeks, but oh it’s so nice to know the real thing is […]
Read MoreI’m not in full food blogger mode all the time. Most of the time I’m cooking up meals that I make regularly and visiting favourite restaurants and cafés; I’m not always searching out new things for the blog. Food, however, has always been a bit of an obsession: I’m always thinking about the next meal or […]
Read MoreI used to cook this dish so often that I was surprised, when I thought of making it tonight, to discover that it wasn’t already on the blog. There are so many recipes here now that sometimes I think, I’ll make ‘whatever’ and write it up, only to discover I did that two or three […]
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