At the end of November last year, I was lucky enough to attend the Country & Town House Future Icons awards at the very lovely Mandarin Oriental in Mayfair. If you ever get a chance to head into the Mandarin Oriental at Christmas, do. It’s like a magical fairytale inside all decked out and sparkly.… Continue reading Inspiration vs execution
Absolute Balderdash is a firm family board game favourite. As a family that favours strategy and word games, things like scrabble, and the various different Balderdashes always appear during the holidays. Absolute Balderdash transcends the ages in our family (10yrs – 76yrs) and so it was that we found ourselves playing this around the dinner… Continue reading Your cookbook is a porno
Back by popular demand! Well, demand from one loyal reader anyway….. It’s been a while. A long while. Life has been insanely busy the last 18 months however, about 10 days ago, I found myself surprisingly jobless and a staring at a future with time on my hands. So, it seems as good a time… Continue reading Easy Christmas pasta
My kids love Nature Valley Dippers. They are legal school snacks but I get annoyed at the price tag. £3 for 8 packs of 2 small biscuits and all the plastic packaging they come in. So during half term, I set out to see if I can make them. Can’t be hard – basic flapjack… Continue reading Nature Valley Dippers
Gosh, what a 10 days. It’s been a whirlwind of travel, COP27 and catching up on home life and cooking. My counterpart in this year’s cooking adventure just smashed through U (USA) and I am lagging behind still in the middle realms of the alphabet. So, it was catch- up weekend. I managed to get… Continue reading N, O and P down, 10 to go
Well, we are halfway there. I have completed letters A-M in our cooking journey around the globe. Before I share Kenya, Lebanon and Madagascar, perhaps it’s time to reflect on the highs and lows of the adventure thus far. Favourite recipe – Cuba (despite the Paprika causing a 2am EEROD vomit)Worst recipe – Ghana. I… Continue reading Halfway round the world
I have always said there are certain cuisines that you should just pay for and Japanese food has always topped that list. Well, I haven’t changed my mind. I absolutely love Japanese food and as we don’t have a Japanese restaurant on the Island, this seemed an exciting adventure! I picked my cookbooks, chose the… Continue reading Japan
Today has been very hot by UK standards. It got well into the 30s here on the Island and I think I actually saw colleagues melting across the floor. There was a point of sweatiness from which there was zero recovery towards the end of the working day. I try not to moan about the… Continue reading I is for Italy
How, how are we half way through June? We are in week 24 which means I should be almost half way through the alphabet on this years challenge. I randomly know that M is the middle letter of the alphabet and I’ve made it as far as H. Hmmm, that means I am 5-6 weeks… Continue reading G – H. The precursors to I & J
I’ve not taken to the keyboard since B in January but life has been insane and time seems to be something I am short of. Fear not though, this is a four recipe blog post with some doozies included! C-F definitely better than A and B. I’ll try and tackle them in alphabetical order but… Continue reading A, B, C, D, Egypt, France too……
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