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 [...]
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 had changed. It was blustery and rainy (and can you believe that this morning the weather forecast included the possibility of hail? Hail?? In August?) I wanted something that would make us feel happy. We needed comfort food… but not too comforting. It was still warm so I needed something that didn’t generate [...]
Continue reading about Meatfree Monday – Baked Butternut Squash Gnocchi
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
As you will have noticed from the previous post about my balcony garden in the sky, one of the things I love to do is grow my own basil – one of the most aromatic and useful herbs there are. It saddens me when I see it in little pots in the supermarket. All you [...]
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 [...]
Although we live in a large city, it is a city surrounded by farmland. There are amazing local food producers and farm shops everywhere. Our closest farm shop, Spring Lane, is less than a mile from our apartment and I go there every weekend to buy eggs, cheeses, vegetables and meat. There’s a bakery there, [...]
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