Not the team, me, I've been cheating. It's been a long week, horrid weather, suddenly colder and the dark! Oooh it gets dark early doesn't it? What is the quintessential English dish? A Sunday roast? Shepherds pie? Cottage pie? Given their prevalence, history, and anglicisation, I even considered putting lasagne and chicken tikka masala in the …
Category: Food
Recipe source
Before I launch into everything I'm cooking and eating, I thought I'd share the source for a number of recipes. A few years ago, around 2018/2019 while we were visiting the in-laws, we visited RAF Cosford in Shropshire. It's not far from Telford or Ironbridge, and has 5 hangars of aircraft showing the history of …
Alternative World Cup
Hopefully you saw my feelings regarding the forthcoming world cup, and the human rights track record of Qatar in both the building of the stadia and the use of migrant workers, as well as their treatment of the LGBTQ community. It doesn't sit well with me and I doubt I'm alone. So, an alternative world …
Football or not…
Don't let the title put you off, I'm not massively into football either. I don't really have a team that I follow, although I am in possession of my late Grandfather's QPR mug; and my phone knows where I live, so gives me my local championship team's results whether I want them or not.I do …
Fillet Steak
So I’ve been talking about food a lot recently with my friends and not done a lot of sharing here. So here is my ‘boyfriend winning’ steak topping recipe. I always got another date after I’d served this recipe, and it’s been a firm favourite of my husband’s since I served it to him. It’s …
Microwaves
I want to say microwaves really boil my piss, but they don’t. Firstly, because I’ve never tried and secondly, because they probably wouldn’t do it anyway. I was quite young, probably under 10 years old when my mum got her first microwave. I say it was hers, we weren’t allowed to use it as kids …
Pornstar Martinis are not all that…
Controversial food opinion and a hill on which I’m prepared to die. Pornstar Martinis are not all that. I keep seeing adverts on line for ‘Bottomless Pornstar Martini Brunch’ and ‘Pornstar Martini Tree’ – an elaborate bit of ironmongery that holds 6 glasses which will undoubtedly get spilled on its journey from the bar to …
The Pub
Not really worth of a whole post but here it is. I’ve been to the pub twice this week. That also means that twice this week someone else has cooked for food for me. It was fabulous both times. On Wednesday evening I went to my old local, walkable from my mum’s house, where I …
Frying Pan Pizza
During lockdown, and because we couldn’t go out to eat, (which it turned out we did a lot) and once I’d finally got some flour and yeast, I started making pizza. It’s now a Saturday ritual. Mid-afternoon I start the dough, about 6pm I make the sauce, then we usually play Scrabble, then I make …
Shortbread
I should open this post with the caveat that I don’t have a particularly sweet tooth, and I’m a bit funny with textures, especially pudding textures. (Yes, pudding, no fancy fake posh language here) but one of my favourite things to cook and eat is shortbread. There is something to so satisfying about biting into …
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