As per previous rants, I’m not a fan of Christmas cake and also doing my best these days to have a low/no dairy diet where possible. This recipe has come about from a potentially unholy union of ways I’ve tried to make a decent, grown up cake without butter alongside the apparent trend of levelling […]
Read More The X(mas) Files- Spiced Clementine CakeThis year has been a funny one for the food enthusiast, throwing out all sorts of challenges from flour shortages to the impending death of the local pub (thanks Boris). Even the most stalwart of covid deniers has had to make some changes to how they live and eat and suck up the loss of […]
Read More On Covid Self Care and La Chapelle at HomeSalentinos is a warm and fragrant reminder of how good simple food can be.
Read More Salentinos, DealIt’s been some time since I was in the smoothie world, details of which I may or may not bore everyone with at a later date but this morning sees me at home for work and feeling somewhat world weary. World weary and too lazy to cook. World weary and too bored for cereal. So […]
Read More Smoothie #11Where? Victoria Place, Brightlingsea, CO7 What? Traditional small town cafe How much? Bargain. Full breakfast and drinks for two well under £15 Contact: https://www.facebook.com/Caf%C3%A9-Chic-coffee-house-413857118747251/ During a heady blast of nostalgia for the good old days where you didn’t have to prebook everything and Saturday morning nutrition was based entirely on how much beer was consumed […]
Read More The Breakfast Club- Cafe ChicIf you live in the UK at the moment firstly- hang in there. This current climate of buffoonery and Barnard Castle is our karma for Colonialism and Morrisey but it can’t last forever. Secondly, you’ll have seen our wise and just leaders are very concerned about the waist of the nation. We’re apparently all too […]
Read More Boomboom’s Easy Guide To DietsDue to the lack of garden centre availability during lock down and, ok fine, the fact that I am a terrible hoarder I have been forced this spring to go through my current seed stash rather than hit the shops for new growing ideas. The usual suspects started in a line up of herbs, squashes […]
Read More Grow Your Own- Zombie Celery and The WildingLife is weird at the moment, which I’m guessing as a human being you may have already worked out. Leaving the house is stressful. Working from the house is mind bendingly frustrating. I am eating and drinking entirely too much. I am also, oddly, able to direct myself to the silver linings of this disgusting […]
Read More Happy Thoughts From IsolationA couple of folk have asked if I am going to publish some virus happy recipes in this trying time of Covid Bastard 19 and my response to that is although I am at least five types of idiot, I’m not that type of idiot. Unless you’re one of those shelf stripping scumbags hoarding all […]
Read More The Boomboom CV19 Survival GuideAh Spring is springing, the birds are singing and the daffs are up despite the fact that it is still blowing an icy gale every other day. Responsible and organised grow-your-own types are already well along with their heated propagators and other such clever cold weather jobs. Me, well, not so much. I spent […]
Read More Grow Your Own- Tips for The Unsuccessful
Food. Boom. 