As I’ve already written, Chocolate Week must go down as my favourite week of the year. Although Champagne week comes a close second, having slugged it out with Farmhouse Breakfast Week. So in honour of the wonderous stuff, here’s five books of chocolate delights to tempt you with. Just make sure to use the good [...]
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The Friday Five for Chocolate Week
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Baking, Bread, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Kitsch cooking, Sweet treats, Uncategorized
Tags:Andrew Garrison Shotts·artisanal chocolate·Chocolate·Chocolate Week·Christmas·Cookbooks·Foodie gifts·Ingredients·Marcel Desaulniers·Paul A. Young·Willie Harcourt Cooze
At last! Christmas foodie gifts with taste!
October 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Meat treats, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Uncategorized
When Santa’s elves sent out the first foodie gifts for Christmas this year, I wasn’t over impressed. The blueberry vodka filled glass stiletto still makes me shudder now. But it was early (too early) and it looks like the good stuff is beginning to make it to shelf. One of my favourite sources is Heal’s [...]
Tags:British favourites·Christmas·Cookbooks·credit crunch gifts·Dr Indulgence·Foodie gifts·Heal's·Marmite·Relishes
Looking for Bank Holiday food entertainment
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Beer & Lager, British favourites, Cheese, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel, Foodie treats, Ingredients, Meat treats, Picnics, Places to eat, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Sweet treats, Uncategorized
Call it a hunch, but I reckon there’ll be traffic queues and toilet queues at the grand houses of the UK today. This must be peak viewing day for National Trust properties and other national treasures such as Chatsworth, which these days is less of a trial for children, thanks to kid’s trails and playgrounds, [...]
Tags:Belton House·Belvoir Fruit Farms·Brocklebys·Chatsworth·chocolate beetroot cake·lemon drizzle cake·Lincolnshire sausage·National Trust·Peak Ales·Tollgate Brewery·victoria sponge
The Friday Five – cooking with the First Ladies of Country & Western
August 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Uncategorized
This is an offshoot of last Friday’s unusual celeb cookbooks, as I managed to find the full five from some of the greats of Country & Western. Stand by your aga, these will keep you going from 9 to 5 and beyond! 1. Dolly’s Dixie Fixin’s – well, I had to start with Dolly, didn’t [...]
Tags:Butcher Holler Steak·Cookbooks·Dolly Parton·Foodie gifts·Loretta Lynn·Naomi Judd·possum·Southern cooking·Tammy Wynette·Trisha Yearwood
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 [...]
Friday Five – five degrees of separation
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Bread, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Uncategorized
I am feeling a little uninspired for the Friday Five, done a lot of driving today, so going to try an experiment. Let’s see where the Amazon recommends feature takes me in four books from the starting point of one of my cookery books. Here goes! 1. Dough by Richard Bertinet – every time I [...]
Tags:Cookbooks·Dough·Foodie gifts·Ottolenghi·Richard Corrigan·Ripailles·Stephane Reynaud·Terry Wogan·Venezia
Bring on the veg box!
August 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Foodie treats, Fruit & Veg, Ingredients, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Uncategorized
Due to a number of changes in the Tarver household, we can now go back to having a veg box, and more, from Riverford at Sacrewell Farm, with the first one arriving tomorrow. Now, tomorrow’s contents don’t look like they are going to present much of a cooking challenge: orla potatoes bunched carrots bunched onions [...]
Tags:Abel & Cole·cabbage·Cookbooks·cucumber·Dean & Deluca·Ingredients·Riverford·Veg Box
Stocking up on great foodie gifts
July 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Foodie treats, Kitchenwares, Places to shop online, Uncategorized
If you haven’t discovered Not On The High Street already, then now is a great time to do so as their sale is on. This is a perfect site for shopping for everyone on your gift list, from young to old, close friends to passing acquaintances, and from style queens to full blown foodies. I [...]
Tags:credit crunch gifts·Foodie gifts·French food·Gadgets·Hampers·Not On the High Street·tea·tea towels
Salt of the earth
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Foodie gifts, Foodie treats, Savoury gifts, Uncategorized
Moving on from bread, and probably because I am writing overlooking salt marshes, I thought today was a good day to think about this most basic of ingredients, without which most cooking would be an awful lot less flavoursome! Of course salt has been completely demonised in recent times, leading many people to leave it [...]
Tags:caramel·Fleur De Sel·Ile de Re·Salt·salt crusted sea bass
The Friday Five – great French cookbooks
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Baking, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Meat treats, Sweet treats, Uncategorized
This week’s Friday Five has a particularly Gallic flavour, as by now our housesitters (aka Gran & Gramps) will have moved in to tend the house and garden, and we’ll be en route to France. Which of course means two weeks of over-indulging in great food and wine. Although given the exchange rate, we may [...]
Tags:Boulangerie·Charcuterie·Cookbooks·Elizabeth David·French cookery·Paris·Patisserie·Rick Stein·Ripailles
