Did I ever mention that I’m not from around these parts? 😛 Well, erm, possibly yes. And that means that a lot of food that I am now eating was entirely new to me five years ago when I arrived. I mean, to give you an idea, a well-known store in my hometown was in […]
Click here for a full portionToo much information – let’s get random!
Aaaah, the first meme of the year! Fresh and crispy and new. And as it wafts through my mail slot, it falls onto the huge dusty pile of old memes that I started responding to last year but never finished the posts!! Aaaarrrrgh. I still have half the childhood food memories meme saved as a […]
Click here for a full portionPork 101 – types, cuts and preparation
After last week’s post, I felt I was confident that I knew my gammon. It’s is some sort of cured pork that you eat at Christmas – I mean, how complicated can that be? But while chatting to Moira, I discovered that she wasn’t familiar with the term, and I discovered that I was unasble […]
Click here for a full portionIt’s the caterers I feel sorry for
Well, after knocking myself out to get the banner up and running, I feel I need a little break. So tomorrow morning I’m leaving on a jet plane fast train for Paris for the weekend. Aaaah, French food!! Can’t wait. So it’s au revoir from me and I’ll leave you with this to amuse you […]
Click here for a full portionRoast gammon for Christmas
Well, it seems Christmas has come and gone and (shockingly, yet unsurprisingly) I have not yet blogged about our meal for Christmas 2005… or 2004. And now that I’m way late for both of them, it seems rather irrelevant when I actually get round to it!! In fact, maybe that’s a plan – we’ll do […]
Click here for a full portionWhat the papers are saying…
You know how they say some days you’re the windscreen, some days you’re the bug? For instance, on some days I seriously have to ask myself what insanity gripped me when I started to blog. As it is, I complain constantly to Nick about how there are too few hours in the day – how […]
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