Eat well - travel often
Bill’s Restaurant in St Albans New Menu and Re-design Bill’s restaurant in St Albans is one of their select sites that have recently undergone a refurbishment and new menu launch. Mr R and I live in St Albans which made a nice change for us […]
Insomnia – my ten top tips for a good night’s sleep. Insomnia or sleeplessness is described as any or all of the following:- difficulty falling asleep, waking up often in the night, trouble getting back to sleep and not sleeping long enough to feel refreshed. […]
Scroll down for my recipe for the best blood orange drizzle cake:- I saw some beautiful red skinned blood oranges recently. All I could think of was using my lemon drizzle cake recipe but substituting blood oranges for the lemons to make a blood orange […]
What is an NC State Tailgate Party? A Tailgate party is a relatively new way to attend and celebrate your American football team’s game. On a recent trip to North Carolina in the USA I was invited to a tailgate party. Not really sure what […]
Scroll down for my recipe for High Protein Pea Noodles for a healthy start to the year. To celebrate January aka ‘Veganuary’ M&S invited myself and other bloggers to a sumptuous vegetarian banquet to showcase their vegetarian, vegan and ‘freefrom’ ranges. I especially liked the […]
Veganuary – Rosa’s Thai Cafe in Soho, Central London – a Thai Veggie Pop-Up Restaurant A cold, crisp Veganuary evening my friend Nayna and I attended the media review of Rosa’s Veggie in Dean Street, Central London . Veganuary by the way is the new […]
Welcome to Kitchen Talk and Travels For some time now I have been threatening to change my blog title and look. Well welcome to 2018 and to Kitchen Talk and Travels. My plan is to bring you all the details of my travels this […]
I was recently invited to try out the Pizza Express in London’s Leadenhall Market in the East End. The event was a pizza making evening with a group of bloggers and we made great tasting individually personalised pizzas. I was really happy with the final […]
My Christmas Cranberry Relish It’s nearly Christmas and one of my favourite things to do that signals the festive season for me is to make my Cranberry Relish! The colours of the cranberries, that vibrant red through to reddish black of those tiny little berries […]
Do you have the annual dilemma of what to take to your hostess over the Christmas and New Year period. Or maybe you want to give the man of the house a lovely selection of wines to keep him out of the way while you […]
Generally I am so busy and tired that I really don’t have time to think what’s for dinner today let alone tomorrow and I find that I spend less and less time with friends. What better way to spend time with friends than cooking together, chatting, […]
My friend Ren Behan proudly published her first cookbook at the beginning of September this year. I reviewed her book ‘Wild Honey and Rye’ on my blog on publication day and you can read that review Wild Honey & Rye. One morning I popped over […]
Recently I was going to visit my sister in North Carolina leaving Mr R home to look after the dog and the house. However he has a history of not cooking and just taking food out of the freezer. I didn’t want to waste so […]
I have written about feeding your biome and keeping it happy before and how important this is for good gut health. With this in mind I often make a smoothie to start the day. I was given some persimmons to try and as I was […]
Do you think you could pass the Idahoan Potato Challenge? I have tried instant mashed potatoes in the past and they were really weird – you could really tell they were never hanging around the potato patch! The American state of Idaho has a rich […]
I have often said and written that Afternoon Tea is one of my favourite meals. I love lingering with friends and family over plates piled high with thin sandwiches with no crusts (I hate crusts on sandwiches so this is a plus point for me!), […]
