Eat well - travel often
I have been baking my quick and easy fruit cake for years now and it never fails. This time of year we have a surplus of really nice, heritage, cooking apples at the end of the garden. Sometimes I make cakes with chopped apples or […]
A Day on a Big Ship, the MSC Preziosa, with a lot of fellow bloggers. Every year Flea Enterprises invites bloggers registered on Foodies100/Tots100/HIBS100/Trips100 to BlogCamp – a gathering of bloggers from all walks of blogs along with great workshop sessions, networking, learning and cake; […]
I was recently taking part in a Blogger convention in Southampton. I was attending with blogging friends/colleagues Manjiri from Travels For Taste and Nayna who writes Simply Sensational Food. We needed to stay over night for two nights. Southampton has plenty of accommodation for students, […]
I was asked if I would like to review an apron. I have loads of aprons so what could be so special about this one I asked. Let us send you one and you will see. So the Lobster Homeware apron arrived! I love the […]
I have always loved sauerkraut, a fermented cabbage with its origins in Eastern Europe but never realised how healthy it was for me. I have been reading about feeding your gut and it all suggests that we need to eat more fermented foods including live […]
I was invited to visit the Caribbean island paradise of Tobago. This was really exciting because I had never been there or to her sister island of Trinidad. I have to confess I love the Caribbean islands now adding two more to my list of […]
I was really pleased to meet the people from Chocolate and Love again this year at an event in July. They have a few new bars of their incredible chocolate and as such sent me the new collection to review. Their current collection contains eight […]
The night before my daughter was due to visit us for her birthday she asked me if I was going to make her a birthday cake! I had loads to do before the family arrived but just before bedtime I started thinking about making a […]
I arrived in the UK in 1975 living and worked in London. I fell in love with London right from the start frequently shopping and eating in London’s China Town. Over the years I have seen many changes in London especially on the food front […]
Grenada is known as the Spice Island of the Caribbean and I love it there and every day that I am there is a celebration in itself however 2017 is a big celebration for some of the local resorts. Grenada is a small island only […]
I get a lot of books to review and it is with great pleasure to receive Wild Honey & Rye – Modern Polish Recipes by Ren Behan (published by Pavilion Books with a RRP £20). I love it when a new cookbook is launched however when […]
Mr R and I had a fantastic time on our first visit to the Caribbean island of Tobago. We have both felt a strong desire to make a trip there again next year. There is so much more for us to discover – we don’t […]
At a recent event for bloggers I discovered Case Station – an online app where you can customise your mobile phone case with any photo or design of your choice. Build and design and let your personal sense of style soar! There are covers suitable […]
There is a saying that it takes a village to raise a child. Like it was in the old days when grandparents, aunts and uncles we on hand to help and there were usually several cousins to play with. With today’s busy schedules and increased […]
Desserts with vegetables, cakes with courgettes and cookies with swede are all features of the new cookbook by Kate Hackworthy – Veggie Desserts + Cakes, it’s carrot cake and beyond! I always love getting a new cookbook to review however when the author is an acquaintance […]
Blackberry chutney time is here and looking at a row of jars on the shelf there is so much Christmas promise in those jars. On my allotment this year we have been blessed with an abundant harvest of wild blackberries. Although these berries grow wild […]
