Something terrible happened on Sunday evening and my blog broke and shortly after that vanished.   It really was a heart stopping moment to see a blank page with an ominous warning about a lack of database connection. After a twitter plea for help the lovely Steve at UK Wedding SEO stepped in and did a [...] [...]

I have not written a To Cook list for a few years as I managed only 2 or 3 recipes the last time I did this in 2008 and 2009. To be updated throughout the year! Breakfast Oatmeal Pancakes (The Taste Space) Baking Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies (Apple & Spice) Pandoro Panettone Savoury Nasudengaku (Thanks [...] [...]

Anyone enraged by Nigella will agree with this post from Silvana de Soissons.  She says everything I am thinking with far more eloquence than I ever could. As I said in last month’s round up, MiMi held a Burmese pop up at Matt Follas’s the Wild Garlic, which sadly I could not attend.   She posted [...] [...]

September has been a fairly boring month foodwise for me, although I have been busy with the blog.    Firstly I was in France, then getting home I decieded that I was fed up of a deluge of product cascading out of the kitchen (and hall cupboards) every time I opened them.  So I resolved to [...] [...]

I was somewhat amused that within a few days of my posting my Fuss Free Coronation Chicken Axel produced a dramatically more complicated version, I love the idea of seasoning the chicken prior to roasting it, then the marinading for maximum flavour, but if I make this it will be for a very special occasion. [...] [...]

Some lovely photos of foods arranged by colour.  I love photos like these, and they are made even more interesting because they are Swedish brands. Check out the Gallery of Regretable Food too, recipes and badly styled food from the 40s, 50s and 60s.   Hours of fun here and a very witty commentary to go [...] [...]

I can’t believe that it is nearly the end of June already. This month I have been enjoying lots of breakfast smoothies inspired by Happy Herbivore. I need to make some of Peanut Butter & Jargon’s cinnamon spiced caramel corn – it looks delicious and I have several packets of Zaramama corn to test out. [...] [...]

I seem to spend a large proportion of my waking hours thinking about food, reading about food, preparing food and eating said food.     When I am not in food mode I am knitting, sewing or asleep. Here are a few recent posts that have caught my eye that I hope to persue or cook later [...] [...]