Saturday morning lazy brunch We headed to Frank’s Bar in Norwich for a late breakfast- poached eggs on granary toast, with bacon and slow roasted tomatoes- yum! Breakfast tea on the side 🙂 After running some errands in town and at home, we met up with friends Em and Craig for dinner that evening. We … More Weekend Eats
Food Glorious Food We ate at some great places during our Australian travels, and cooked some pretty tasty meals ourselves too! Cairns/Airlie Beach a) Traditional “Rum Baba” dessert- cake with rum soaked dried fruit, with a shot of rum to pour over it and vanilla ice cream at Fish D’Vine, a seafood and rum … More Australia Twelve – Australian Fabulous Food
A weekend recipe to try: This recipe is from the “River Cottage Veg Everyday” book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Mark and I watched a lot of his River Cottage series when it was on TV, and found it fascinating all the tasty things he created just using vegetables. It isn’t a vegetarian cookbook, although none of … More Squash Stuffed with Leeks
The weather was gorgeous this weekend so Mark and I decided to make the most of it and have a BBQ on Sunday afternoon as our lunch/dinner. Our garden only gets the sun until about 5oclock due to the direction it faces so we wanted to make sure we could sit out in the sunshine! … More BBQ Time!
I need to use up all my leftovers and empty the fridge before I leave for Australia on Sunday. So that means I can get creative! How about a quick dessert? Nectarines and (slightly squishy) raspberries… Covered with a quick crumble topping: 30g butter 20g sugar 30g flour 45g oats Then cooked for 40minutes at … More Nectarine and Raspberry Crumble
I booked my flights to Australia today! I’m so excited 🙂 Source Mark is working offshore out there at the moment and I have been intending to go out and have a holiday with him after the job has finished. Due to the nature of the job though it’s been so hard to predict exactly … More Australia
Friday night in with the girls- Elspeth and Jo 🙂 I love having a house big enough to entertain- I’m glad Mark and I went for somewhere a little bigger, as so many of the rented places we looked at didn’t even have a dining room or space for a table! Where do you eat?! … More Pizza Party
Well, we had a momentary flash of summer weather which has unfortunately since been drowned out. Nevertheless the summer always makes me feel like creating different salads- they’re fresh, flavourful and leave me with a summery light feeling 🙂 This recipe is a twist on several BBC Good Food ones– can you tell I love their … More Summer Salad
Dropped my sister off at the station this morning- it’s been lovely having her staying and I feel like the age gap (8 years) is beginning to seem less of an issue, with us having more shared interests and things to talk about. Hopefully we can stay close as she continues to grow up and … More Stuffing Our Faces
I have a bit of a thing for duck- eating it that is… It’s amazing, especially drenched in hoi sin sauce. If there is duck on offer at Sainsburys you can pretty much guarantee I will buy it! And apart from the obvious Chinese crispy duck pancakes with cucumber and spring onions (yum!), there are … More Duck Delicacies
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