I needed to make supper but there was only me to cook for as the Bear had gone out to eat at an incredibly smart restaurant (work, you know… ) and I just couldn’t be bothered to shop. Sometimes, you know, the thought of going food shopping at the end of a working day just [...]
This autumn (and I know it is still late summer really, but it is the 1st September and it was misty when I got up and it is just starting to feel autumnal) well, this autumn the apple crops are amazing. Every apple tree seems to be laden with fruit. Friends who drove up to [...]
Today is the last Bank Holiday of the year in England so we decided to make the most of it. A extra day added to our weekend – what bliss! The weather is good so we decided to go looking for more fruit.. and what fruit we found. We live on the top of a [...]
Continue reading about Foraging again – apples, plums and more apples
For me, there’s something so soothing about baking bread. I love getting out a big bag of flour, some yeast and some good salt and knowing you can turn it into something delicious. Those ingredients, by themselves, could never be a meal (unlike quite a lot of things we cook with) but together, in some [...]
Continue reading about Meatfree Monday – Baguette baked with cheese, tomatoes and peppers
The Bear travels a lot. All over the world. And wherever he travels he eats. He has a great time sampling different foods and styles of cooking but whenever he gets back from his travels he always asks for one thing in particular. I would and could cook him anything at all, no matter how involved [...]
Continue reading about Beans and Egg on Toast – the Bear’s favourite homecoming meal.
We didn’t have much in the apartment – I’d been getting to work early and getting back late and the thought of stopping to buy food was just too much. Crawl through rush-hour traffic and pull off the main road, then fight through shoppers and then try and get back to the main road? No [...]
Continue reading about Meatfree Monday – citrus, thyme and garlic potatoes, or dinner from scraps.
The weather has been really good this year. Proper weather, if you know what I mean. In the winter it was cold and snowy (OK so I was moaning about the interminable snow when it stretched on, week after week, but looking back? Well… it was fun at times, wasn’t it?) and now we are into [...]
Continue reading about Meatfree Monday – Monkfish in a cream, vermouth and pea sauce.
There’s a movement gaining increased acceptance across the globe - Meatless Monday – if you give up meat for one day a week, it cuts consumption by 15%. It started in the USA as non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future. “According [...]
Continue reading about Meatfree Monday – Chargrilled peppers in oil
It was half way through the working week and it felt like it should be the end of the week. I got in from work, too tired to go to the supermarket on the way back and was desperately craving something tasty and filling to eat. Looking around the kitchen I found various bits… some ends [...]
Continue reading about Cheese and chorizo omelette…. Or, supper from scraps
I had a fancy for something tasty. Actually, what I really had a fancy for was our local takeaway’s Salt and Pepper Squid, which is probably the most delicious salt and pepper squid anywhere. And I should know – just ask the Bear. Wherever we go if I see it on the menu, I ask for [...]
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