Just a quick note to say Buy A Gift have a weekend promotion of 20% off all gifts. This is a great site for gift experiences in particular, for foodies and non foodies. With 20% off it’s even better, and lets not forget Mother’s Day is not that far away (14 March, in case you [...]
Entries from February 26th, 2010
Being organised for less
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Courses, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie treats, Indian Food, Mother's Day gifts, Offers & Discount Codes
Tags:Afternoon tea·Buy A Gift·Champagne·Christmas foodie gifts·cookery courses·curry·eating out·Indian Food·Mother's Day gifts·sugarwork
Doh! Wait for it!
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Just for fun
Okay, who spotted the deliberate mistake? Not me! Apparently I am a whole month ahead of myself, as Cakes For Haiti is Friday 26 March. That is not today, obviously. Never mind, will be sending money anyway. Am looking it as whatever the cake version of a dry run is. And it gives us two [...]
Tags:Cakes for Haiti·Doh!
The Friday Five – Cakes for Haiti, or anywhere else
February 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Baking, British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Sweet treats
You may have picked up that today is Cakes for Haiti day, and hopefully you’ve been busy knocking up something delicious! I’ve done blondies and hummingbird muffins, which are new to me. Dr T suggested I could have done all cakes or biscuits beginning with h, but that would be taking it a tad too [...]
Tags:Afternoon tea·Baker & Spice·Baking·Cakes for Haiti·Cookbooks·He Eats·home baking·Nigella Lawson·Peggy Porschen·Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache
What will you swap this Fairtrade Fortnight?
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Beer & Lager, British favourites, Fairtrade food, Foodie gifts, Ingredients, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Spirits
The annual Fairtrade Fortnight started yesterday, and I like this year’s theme around asking people to swap just one thing they regularly purchase for the Fairtrade version. Small steps to change always seem much more manageable somehow! So, bananas and coffee feel a bit old hat, and many will already be buying fairtrade (or did [...]
Tags:Fair Vodka·Fairtrade Fortnight·Foodie gifts·Ingredients·Make Us A Brew·Mongozo Beers·Steenbergs·Suma
Expanding our cooking skills
February 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Courses, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Places to shop online
I got a tweet last week regarding a new website, ooh.com, which looks really interesting if you want to find, or even run, a great cookery course or experience near you. Whilst it doesn’t only cover food and drink, at the moment there are just under 170 courses listed across the UK. From West Cornwall [...]
Tags:Baking·cookery courses·Foodie gifts·home baking·jam making·smoke your own food·wood-fired oven
Dr T & MGG do The Field Kitchen – take two
February 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Cookbooks, Eating with kids, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Fruit & Veg, Healthy eating, Places to eat
If you were quick, you may briefly have read my vicarious review of Dr T and MGG’s lunch at The Field Kitchen at Riverford. Sadly, there was a glitch on the blog and I had to restore to the previous day’s version. Which wiped it out. I could try and rewrite it, but the original [...]
Tags:communal eating·Cookbooks·Eating with kids·Ingredients·Riverford·The Field Kitchen
The best meal of the day
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Bread, Breakfast, British favourites, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Ingredients, Meat treats, Places to eat, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts
I love breakfast. To be fair, I love weekend breakfasts, holiday breakfasts, breakfasts out…anywhere really where it’s relaxed and, preferably, someone else has made it. And if you didn’t make someone breakfast in bed on Valentine’s Day, then do it just as a surprise on any other day, or take them somewhere special, or just [...]
Tags:Alf Resco·Breakfast·British favourites·Carnegie Deli·Jams·Lantana Cafe·marmalade·Preserves·Sillfield Farm·The Pickled Village·The Wolseley
Eating, blogging, complaining – part 2
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Alcohol free drinks, Eating with kids, Indian Food, Places to eat
Just to show that I am not always a complaining, whingeing kind of foodie, I just wanted to say what a fabulous, flavoursome lunch we had today at Kayal in Leicester. This is most definitely not your average Indian, as this is based around Keralan cuisine, and the flavours were outstanding. Not your typical Valentine’s [...]
Tags:eating out with kids·happy eating·Kayal·Keralan cooking·lunch
Eating, blogging, complaining
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Fish & Seafood, Foodie gifts
I hadn’t read the Scrambling Eggs blog from Lantana Cafe owner Shelagh Ryan before, and I loved her post about food bloggers. The fact that the vast majority are “invisible” whilst dining, but their results will be visible. I do sympathise, that it’s hard to do anything about any bad experiences if you don’t know [...]
Tags:food blogging·Lantana Cafe·photographing food·Scrambling Eggs
