wendall on July 26th, 2010

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 [...]

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wendall on May 21st, 2010

As you know, I wage a constant battle to get the Bear to eat what I want him to eat. All in the interest of health, you know, it’s not just me wanting to assert dominance over my poor, beleagured husband. It makes things easier as well, if you both eat the same things. I [...]

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wendall on May 11th, 2010

You know how some days you just long for something different to eat? Perhaps the weather is getting you down or the work you are doing seems rather tedious and your mind starts to wander….. you feel hungry (oh, how often I feel hungry. Goes with the territory of being a greedy old thing, I [...]

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wendall on April 14th, 2010

As the Spring advances, I seem to be getting more lively, almost as if I am speeding up. I walk faster and I feel brighter and more alert. Must be the increased sunshine, I reckon. The same goes for my cooking. I am moving away from slow cooked food and wanting faster results. I want [...]

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wendall on April 12th, 2010

It’s been a long and hard winter and so much of the food we have wanted to eat has been, of necessity, warming and comforting. Delicious though that is, there comes a time when you want fresh food. Eventually, though, things start to sprout and poke through the earth and fresh vegetables of all kinds [...]

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wendall on April 5th, 2010

It was really hard trying to think what to call this post. The original recipe called it Tomato Pudding and I just didn’t think that really described it. I’d bought the book, “First Ladies Cook Book – favourite recipes of all the Presidents of the United States” while we were on a weekend break in [...]

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wendall on March 26th, 2010

As some of you know, I was born and brought up in the far north of England. I’m only living in the Midlands now because I married the Bear…… I try and get back there at every opportunity. That’s where my family and and also where some of the most stunning places in the UK [...]

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wendall on March 18th, 2010

Right then. Celebrations  are over and spring is on the way.  I have a new job and a new bounce to my step. Everything is looking bright and cheerful and I am filled with optimism. Not only about having a real job but I am optimistic about starting a diet. Well, when I say starting… I [...]

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wendall on March 1st, 2010

Well then. What’s a girl to do when she claps eyes on one of these? A little porky trotter. Well, if she is a cunning and cost concious cook and she also claps eyes on walloping great ham shanks costing a mere £1.49, well then, the odds are that she starts to think of a [...]

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wendall on February 14th, 2010

It’s obviously the weather for comfort food…the cold and damp and gloom affects everyone’s mood and general levels of happiness.  I am still working as a temp and that is not helping matters either. It’s good that I have work, but how I long for a real job with some sense of security because working [...]

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