Thursday, 27th December 2018 – Recipes (Sausage Cavatelli) I got a cookbook for Christmas! As if I need more cookbooks… However, I never turn a good cookbook down, as the bookshelves prove! What I got this year is “Jamie Cooks Italy“, having enjoyed the TV series very much. And so i decided that after two…
Month: December 2018
Recipes 2018 – Recipes (Streusel Cake, Deluxe Mince Pies, Ground Rice Tarts)
Wednesday, 26th December 2018 – Recipes (Streusel Cake, Deluxe Mince Pies, Ground Rice Tarts) These are things that are baked in this house but once a year. I’m not the world’s best baker, largely because of my tendency to wander off-piste from recipes, which tends not to work well for baking that requires precision. However,…
Events 2018 – Christmas
Tuesday, December 25th 2018 – Christmas If you are reading this, then I would like to wish you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with some Christmas lights from London!
Food 2018 – The White Horse, Kings Sutton
Monday, 24th December 2018 – The White Horse, Kings Sutton We stumbled upon the White Horse purely by chance when visiting a bunch of places that were shortlisted for the local food and drink awards, but didn’t visit it because it wasn’t among the places we’d been asked to review. It did sound interesting though,…
Travel/Food 2018 – La Nonna and Bar Douro, London
Thursday, 20th December 2018 – La Nonna, Bar Douro, London Having taken an afternoon off in order to use up the last of my holiday for 2018, and to make it easier to do some serious food shopping, IÂ decided I would walk to Borough Market from the office. It takes a good 20 minutes…
Food 2018 – Bar Encore, Towcester
Saturday, 17th November/11th December 2018 – Bar Encore, Towcester After a couple of slightly rocky visits to Bar Encore when I’d repeatedly had to teach the cocktail barman how to make a caipirinha (and the answer is not the way he was making it with syrup and lime juice – but I digress and to…
Food 2018 – Moro, London
Saturday, 8th December 2018 – Moro, London A trip to Moro in December has become a tradition for ourselves and a number of our friends, and is tacked on to the end of a visit to Sadlers’ Wells Theatre for whatever dance treat Matthew Bourne has laid on in the run up to Christmas. This…
Food 2018 – The Yard, Towcester
Friday, December 7th 2018 – The Yard, Towcester It pains me to have to do what is essentially going to be a hatchet job on any restaurant but we tried the latest place to open in our home town last Friday and it was not an edifying affair. La Strada, after a chequered half decade…
Travel 2018 – Helsinki, Day 5
Monday, 3rd December 2018 – Helsinki On our last day, having been running already on the trip, I woke up early and decided that I was going to try out the new-ish (well, it was still under construction when we first visited) Allas Sea Pool complex down on the harbour side. I didn’t think I’d…
Food 2018 – Gaijin, Helsinki
Sunday, 2nd December 2018 – Gaijin, Helsinki Sunday night in Helsinki (and even more so in the rest of Finland in our experience) is a tricky one. Because staff are paid a hefty premium for working on a Sunday, open restaurants are hard to find, if not almost impossible as we discovered in Hämeenlinna in…
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