Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
Sometimes creating a great meal isn’t about spending hours in the kitchen ‘slaving over a hot stove’. Sometimes it’s just about buying top quality food and more or less putting it together. Well, in the case of brilliantly barbecued steak, it also requires a good cook who knows what they are doing. Fortunately for me […]
Read MoreThe pasta dish with chestnuts and mushrooms I cooked the other night was delicious but it left me with nearly a whole pack of ready-cooked chestnuts in my fridge, needing to be used within a week, so I had to come up with another recipe. My inspiration for the pasta dish came from Jacob Kenedy’s […]
Read MoreThere was some wonderful produce in the local farmers’ market in Twickenham yesterday. I often go with the intention of buying some particular things – yesterday I wanted to buy a couple of chickens – but it’s also great to just look around and see what’s on offer and in season. I wanted to make […]
Read MoreI had to contain myself and not add more ingredients to the title. I get irritated by restaurants that take up 3 lines in the menu to put in every last little detail of the ingredients of a dish. So as I was about to add ‘toasted pine nuts’ and ‘croutons’ and ‘oregano’, I held […]
Read MoreI’ve been thinking for so long that I should write a post about my great local farmers’ market in Twickenham and finally this morning I got round to taking some photos ready to put on the blog. It’s held every week in the Holly Road car park behind the Twickenham M&S Simply Food, between 9.00 […]
Read MoreLike a lot of people in UK at the moment with the cold weather storming in in a flurry of sharp winds and lots of rain, I have a cold. Now I’m not expecting sympathy – it’s really not that bad – but the point is that ‘nursing’ my cold is what led to me […]
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