We have just one week until Christmas and the shops and markets are bursting with people scrambling to get their last minute gifts and making sure they don’t run low on food and drink! I have personally been scaling the shops of Glasgow trying to get my hands on a…
How on earth is it December already?? First the leaves started changing colour and we hit Autumn, suddenly the clocks changed, Halloween came and went, then it was Bonfire Night and boom…November disappeared and here we are in December! It seems to come around quicker every year and yet every…
having recently moved to Glasgow, i have been spending a lot of my time eating my way around the city, discovering the food scene here. one name that kept creeping up in conversations was bakery47. everyone i met asked me if i’d been yet, so a couple of weekends ago, my friend and…
One of my favourite things to do if I find mysef with any free time over a weekend is watch the utterly marvellous Ina Garten, otherwise known at Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network. I have spoken about my love of her before. Recently, I saw an episode where she…
December is now upon us and with it, the inescapable, yet exciting build up to Christmas. The lights, the music, the decorations, the tear-jerking adverts, the parties, the food, the drink…the hangovers! It is also that time of the year when family ask you what you would like for Christmas and…
When I was in the Southern States earlier this year, I ate at a fabulous restaurant in East Nashville called Little Octopus. There, I tasted burrata with pickled peaches and kaffir lime and it was sensational. For the rest of the road trip my friend Cassie and I couldn’t stop talking about…
Covent Garden ha always been a bit of a tourist trap, with restaurants to match. I avoided it for years but its turned a corner lately with restaurants like Opera Tavern, Hawksmoor and Mishkins and now, Cicchetti. Owned by the San Carlo Group, with the help of Italian chef Aldo…
I have a new favourite restaurant…Blanchette on D’Arblay Street, Soho. If I was ever to own a restaurant, this is exactly what I’d want it to look like. Its almost as if they’ve taken my dream restaurant from my head and popped it into the middle of Soho. Even better, its…
A few days ago I was perusing the shelves in Waitrose and spotted something I hadn’t seen before…chorizo jam, from Eat 17. Famous for their bacon jam, I hadn’t realised Eat 17 have a full range of jams…chilli bacon jam, onion jam, bacon jammier and of course, chorizo jam. Now…
Macaroni cheese is the ultimate comfort food, the perfect dish to keep you feeling warm and cosy on a cold night. Now that the clocks have gone back, British Summer Time has been brought to an official end, and there is a distinct chill in the air. Now is the…
French cheese rules.
I had some friends over for dinner on Friday night and I made a selection of canapes for everyone to nibble on with their drinks. One of the canapes was crostini topped with goats cheese and this hot quince jelly. I was in the John Lewis food hall in Oxford…
