Every Saturday my friend WaxeWod puts a happy list post on her blog and asks her followers, should they feel inclined, to follow suit. I find it quite therapeutic, a way to look back over the previous few days, often realising it’s the smallest things that make you happiest. If I was to expand the …
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Can I get you a dessert menu?
I hadn’t intended to go down the dessert route. So says the glutton who’s long since lost all sense of direction when it comes to sweet treats. But it’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Or is that the sugar on my fingers? We’d gone out for lunch, a midweek trip to use a …
Spontaneity is back
It’s not until you start going out again that you realise just what it is you’ve been missing. Spontaneity is back. So much of my life these last twelve months has centred around food. First, there’s been the planning, trawling through cookbooks or magazines for inspiration, trying to find new ideas rather than always falling …
It’s been 105 days
It was one hundred days ago yesterday that the UK went into lockdown, which must make it somewhere in the region of one hundred and five days since I was last in a restaurant or coffeeshop. I’d gone to Cambridge for the day to see my dad and we managed to fit in coffee at …
I made my first pizza.
I made my first pizza recently. I’m not quite sure why I hadn’t beforehand but when pizza popped up as the #TwitterBakeAlong challenge a couple of weeks ago I decided it was time to have a go. Now I’m left wondering why it took me so long to get round to it and how quickly …
A little looking forward and a little looking back
In the spirit of this time of year lets do a little looking back and a little looking forward. At the start of the year I was mid way through a creative writing course that I took through our local adult educational service here in Norwich. We were asked to set some goals at the …
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A day in Cambridge with my Dad.
I spent the day in Cambridge with my Dad yesterday. It was his birthday last weekend and as we couldn’t get together on the day we’d agreed to meet up for a belated birthday lunch. Cambridge has long since been one of my favourite places so any chance to jump on a train and spend …
What’s not to like
There’s an article in todays Guardian where a number of chefs and foodies talk about their least favourite ingredient to cook with. This got me to thinking about what mine would be, then to the very quick conclusion that I may be about to write the shortest blog post ever. Clearly many of these people …
Eating alone
I quite enjoy eating alone in cafes and restaurants. Its not that I’m antisocial and don’t want company, just that when the chance arrises to eat on my own I’m happy to do it. My partner has gone off to Cambridge for the day with a friend so it’s been lunch for one. Eating alone …
David in the kitchen. 