I love Selfridges, could spend hours in there, and eat my way through a great many foodstuffs. So I’m thrilled to find that, finally, their website has gone transactional. Welcome to the 21st century. But the good news is that it gives a whole crop of interesting food possibilities, either to stock up your own [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2010
Selfridges available anytime, anywhere
March 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Chocolate, Foodie gifts, Foodie treats, Ingredients, Places to shop online, Spirits, Wine
Tags:Artisan du Chocolat·Chocolate·Easy Tasty Magic·Foodie gifts·Ingredients·Selfridges
So, do fajitas top your charts?
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Eating with kids, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Ingredients, Kitchenwares, Mexican Food, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts
Was listening to Radio 4 in the car yesterday where they were reporting the Daily Mail piece about fajitas now being the top dinner party dish in the UK. Was it just me that was surprised? I mean, we love fajitas and cook them a lot for family suppers, but of all the meals that [...]
Tags:beef skirt·chillies·Cool Chile Co·fajitas·Grow your own·Mexican Food·tequila·Tex Mex food·World of Chillies
What food do you take away with you?
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · British favourites, Foodie gifts, Foodie Travel, Foodie treats
We’re getting ready to go away for Easter, and our housesitting aunt and uncle are on the way here (they do come at times when we are at home too). As you may have got the hang of, there is quite a lot of food in this house, perishable and otherwise, but they always arrive [...]
Tags:Bellevue Tea·British favourites·Dorset Cereals·Marmite·tastes of home·tea
Time for tea and Simnel cake
March 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baking, British favourites, Foodie gifts, Places to shop online, Sweet treats
I was all set today to make a Simnel cake, ready for the arrival of the marzipan loving, house-sitting aunt and uncle. Well, when I say I was all set, I mean that I had it in mind that I would. Requests across the twitterverse brought forth an unusual twist with @Domestic_Jules’ recipe for Simnel [...]
Tags:Afternoon tea·Baking·British favourites·Easter food traditions·Foodie gifts·Gluten Free·home baking·Italian food·Simnel cake·teatime goodies
The Friday Five – Working towards the good life
March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Healthy eating, Preserving
I wrote at the weekend about getting ready to plant your veg, or plug plants, ready for having crops of your own later in the year. It’s amazing what a little bit of sunshine can inspire you to do! So for this week’s Friday Five, here are 5 books to help you towards self sufficiency, [...]
Tags:allotments·Grow your own·jam making·Preserves·Preserving·self sufficiency·vegetable growing
Something foodie to do at Easter without chocolate
March 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel
The Easter holidays are rapidly approaching. Hurray! Always a favourite holiday as there is a chance of sunshine and an almost cast iron guarantee of chocolate. If you’ve got some time to do something different, then how about offsetting the chocolate gluttony with a trip to the Imperial War Museum, for the Ministry of Food [...]
Tags:frugal cooking·Grow your own·rationing·The Ministry of Food
Sunshine and chitting
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Healthy eating, Places to shop online
Finally, it feels like the longest winter in history may be over, and the big yellow thing has returned to the sky. I misheard Best Foodie Friend last week when she said she had started chitting potatoes. Thought it sounded unusual. Which means it’s time to start looking at the raised beds again, plotting to [...]
Tags:allotments·chitting potatoes·credit crunch gifts·Foodie gifts·Grow your own·heritage vegetables·Spring·vegetable growing
The Friday Five – Foodie shop till you drop!
March 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · British favourites, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Friday Five, Places to eat, Places to shop online
This week’s five are inspired by the publication of The Good Food Producers Guide 2010, as guides to great food shops around the world. Just as a break from the cooking and baking, it allows me to indulge in my other great passion, shopping. 1. The Good Food Producers Guide 2010- I only got this [...]
Tags:British favourites·food guides·food markets·food producers·food shopping·Local food
Happy St Patrick’s Day! The best of Irish food & drink
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Beer & Lager, Fish & Seafood, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Meat treats, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Spirits, Sweet treats
It seems that wherever you go in the world, everyone is happy to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, whilst the other national saints barely get a look in even in their home countries! But lets not get all partisan about it, lets just get on with some eating and drinking! 1. Ok, you can’t really start [...]
Tags:Bewley's tea·Bushmills·Connemara·Foodie gifts·Galway Oyster Festival·Guinness·Hampers·Irish whiskey·Merchant Hotel Belfast·Murphys·St Patrick's Day
