Yesterday I brought you Selfridges, today it’s Debenhams. I know you’re going to get in quick for some of these! I have to say, it is a mix of the good, bad and ugly. Here’s a quick selection: 1. Snowball and glass set – a retro favourite, beloved Christmas tipple of my grandma. I think [...]
Entries from August 18th, 2009
First out the Christmas gifts gate at Debenhams
August 18th, 2009 · 6 Comments · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Naff presents, Savoury gifts, Sweet treats
Tags:A Quarter Of·awful gifts·Debenhams·ginger·Jams·Mrs Bridges·mustards·Preserves·retro drinks·retro sweets·Snowball
I told you I could hear Santa!
August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie treats, Places to shop online
Oh yes, I’m afraid so! There are subtle moves online, and possibly in the stores as well, to start shifting over to Christmas goodies. Harrods you would expect, as the Christmas shop opened last month, but there are traces at Debenhams, Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges as well. I’ll do a quick review over the next [...]
Get out & support your local food festival
August 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Beer & Lager, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie treats, Meat treats, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts
My good foodie friend (her of the cheese making kit) and I went to the Food & Drink Fayre in Newark today, in the sunshine. I have to admit I went off with fairly low expectations as the marketing had been pretty low key and fairly short on detail. I’m always a bit suspect when [...]
Tags:brewing·British favourites·Chapman's Finest Fishcakes·credit crunch gifts·food festivals·food markets·Foodie gifts·Great Taste Awards·Jams·Newark·Poacher's Pasties·Spire Brewery·Stichelton·The School of Artisan Foods·the WI
I’m with Oscar
August 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Healthy eating
So here we are, a week on. I’ve tried to get to grips with the vagaries of red and green, I have Syn’d and, lets face it, I have fallen off the wagon. For, as Mr Wilde said, I’m good at resisting stuff (exercise, a BigMac) but faced with the temptation of a glass, or [...]
Tags:green day·Oscar Wilde·red day·Slimming World·temptation
The Saturday Session – 101 ways with a courgette
August 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Baking, Cookbooks, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Fruit & Veg, Healthy eating, Ingredients, Preserving, Recipes, Saturday Session
Well, not quite, but tonight’s dinner challenge is a different use of courgettes with every course because, like many of you who might grow your own, there’s a courgette glut still on. I have to admit to not being the biggest fan of the courgette, but I’m coming around. I think it’s too many years [...]
Tags:Baking·Cookbooks·courgette cake·courgettes·Gastrokid·Grow your own·home baking·How to be a Domestic Goddess·Ingredients·Lime·Nigella Lawson
Surely this is “the” celeb cookbook to have?
August 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five
Having written yesterday’s list of celeb non-chef type cookbooks and writing, I realised late in the day there was a glaring omission. On a rare trip to W H Smith I had time to browse their food and drink section and there, on the bottom shelf but still full price, was this gem! Who knew? [...]
The Friday Five – Celeb Cookbooks with a Twist
August 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Kitsch cooking
In the course of a tidy up, I came across probably the weirdest food writing we own, so I’m taking it as the start for this week’s Friday Five. These are cookbooks with a celebrity connections, either a real person or fictional, but not a celeb chef. 1. Lobscouse & Spotted Dog by Anne Chotzinoff [...]
Tags:Aubery Maturin·Cookbooks·Elvis Presley·Foodie gifts·Liberace·Lobscouse & Spotted Dog·Patrick O'Brian·Patti Labelle·Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwich
Foodie Red Day One
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Healthy eating
Slight switch today, so more protein and less carbs. And also a slight hormonal need for the comfort food of something curried. Breakfast: 2 oatcakes and Tiptree raspberry jam. 0.5 syns Lunch: grilled chicken and a medley of veg Dinner: sort of Thai meets Indian salmon curry with tomatoes, coconut milk, stick beans, spinach and [...]
Tags:Ingredients·red day
Hide (if you’re a grouse)
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Healthy eating, Ingredients, Meat treats, Savoury gifts
Ah, the glorious twelfth. Or possibly the slightly damp around the edges twelfth, depending on where you were! But for the grouse, it’s always a day to be very good at camouflage and keeping very still. There are apparently health benefits to eating game, as it is generally low in fat and cholesterol, but has [...]
Tags:Blackface·Clarissa Dickson Wright·Foodie gifts·Game·Glorious Twelfth·Grouse·Ingredients
Is that Santa I hear?
August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Uncategorized
Ah yes, the decent weather is back. Which can only mean one thing. It’s nearly Christmas. I knew it was near, the first Christmas gift catalogue arrived yesterday. Not a massive number of foodie gift possibilities, but it was the UNICEF Christmas catalogue. There are some cute mugs for that morning cuppa, not to mention [...]
