Oriental pork with rice

I slow roasted a pork joint at the weekend, and it positively fell apart afterwards – I mean it – I literally carved it with a spoon! Anyway, when I had the pile of shredded pork in front of me, it reminded me so much of  shredded duck at the Chinese restaurant (to look at) [...]

A new page just about food!

While I was writing out the Toad in the Hole recipe earlier today, I was thinking about the other recipes that I’ve posted since I started the blog a few years ago. I realised that I would have posted enough to create a separate page with links to each post. So that is what I’ve [...]

Procrastinating

I really should be typing up Handsome’s story, but I’m delaying the struggle to decipher. I’ve visited Ravelry, have bought my mother a triple dvd set of Elvis movies (bargain sale!) and I’m about to go and check my blog reader for new entries. I’m planning a few posts in the near future about my favourite recipes. [...]

Eating in Stratford Upon Avon

Last weekend, when my husband and I visited Stratford Upon Avon, we were lucky enough to light upon three lovely places to eat. We arrived at dinner time on the Saturday evening, so we didn’t want to have to go too far to find a meal. We were lucky that within a couple of minutes [...]

Mindful consumption, and teaching children to be thoughtful consumers

Something I meant to write about it my last post (but completely forgot, or at least got sidetracked!) is my effort to teach my children to be mindful consumers. I always seem to forget to write about WHY I do things like make jams and preserves at home, rather than take the easy and cheaper [...]

Pre-empting verbal abuse

So, yesterday I was glumly inspecting the contents of my food store. I realised that we have a small chocolate mountain accruing, which concerns me. You see, to eat and eat over Christmas is acceptable, some might say expected, but to carry this sort of food consummation on into the new year would simply be [...]

A grown up evening – for a change!

Well, GG and I have had a lovely evening tonight. My sister in law and her partner took us out for our birthday meal (our birthdays are in June, but she’s a little late!) and we chose to go to a Thai restaurant as I love Thai food if I cook it myself or buy [...]

Quiet time with the Husband

Today I had a treat. My husband (who I won’t refer to as NDT, Jo!) took a half day holiday from work today and took me out for lunch. We went to La Tasca and enjoyed our last uninterrupted meal and calm daylit half hour which we will have for the next week and a [...]

Lebanese cuisine

I went out last night with my best friend Maria to a Lebanese restaurant in Cardiff called Mezza Luna. I’ve never eaten in a Lebanese restaurant before, so it was a new experience for me! Having said that, I played it very safe with the menu and opted to have a steak served with a [...]

Eating bad things

I want to find someone who has felt the same as I felt recently. While at work recently, a friend did a bakery run and offered to fetch cakes and pasties for us all. Without thinking I ordered a french bread pizza and a chocolate covered, patisserie cream filled doughnut. When he returned I ate [...]