And so another month has come and gone, and another IMBB is upon us! I can’t believe this is already the tenth edition and the seventh one I have participated in – time really does fly when you’re having fun! “Is My Blog Burning”, a worldwide web cooking event and the brainchild of Alberto of […]
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Saturday morning, our second day in Munich, we woke up to find… rain. Hard and continuous and not part of our plan at all. But on the bright side, we did discover that our hotel served a damn fine breakfast – in fact one of the best continental breakfasts I’ve had. Good juice, great coffee […]
Click here for a full portionSalad Nicoise a la Cooksister
A month or two ago, when it was still warm enough to want a salad for dinner, I made one of my favourite salad meals – salad Nicoise. It was appropriate in light of the fact that we were soon going to be heading for Nice and the south of France where this dish originates, […]
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As promised, I am digging into the vaults and finding posts that should have been made weeks (if not months!) ago – and one of them is an account of our trip to the Munich Oktoberfest at the end of September. This was our second trip – last year we were persuaded to go by […]
Click here for a full portionBicerin – my new favourite hot chocolate
The sun sets at about 4 pm, my garden is dying, I am wearing my winter coat every day now and fantasising about new gloves… yep, it must be winter in London. And coming from sunnier climes, I find this the most, erm, challenging time to live here. The only things to get me through […]
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I was pretty excited about Viv from Seattle Bon Vivant’s choice of Australian Shiraz as the theme. Coming from a New World wine-producing country myself, I find Aussie reds very accessible and very much suited to my palate. Because of their worldwide popularity, there is an abundance of Australian wines on the shelves here in […]
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