ED 27.01.19 I must draw attention to witnessing first hand a change in management and service levels at DAW since the writing of this piece and also plainly voice my support for those people who have been discovered to have suffered abuse and harassment from Dan Doherty. What a dickhead. There’s been far too much […]
Read More Duck &WaffleInvented on the hop for an impromptu BBQ with cupboard basics and the dregs of the fridge contents the day before Morrissons Day! I enjoy chickpeas for diet friendly bulk, they are filling with reasonable protein and fibre content. They are also a nice summer feed for the non carnivores and just that bit tastier […]
Read More Chickpea SaladI can’t imagine that I would have ever believed that the day would come to pass that I would find the lack of the need to buy lettuce so utterly thrilling. I never really bought much of it anyway, it goes soggy in the lunch box and never tastes of much, not to mention the […]
Read More Grow Your Own- The Salad DaysI should be writing this on the eve of my 12 week-end-of-the-road-NHS-weight-loss-plan-weigh-in but for numerous reasons that little nugget of joy has been bumped to next week. Instead I write to you from my sofa on the eve of just another Thursday, about five kilos lighter than I was at the start of this conversation […]
Read More The Skinny Thing- Facing The Slip Ups.This might seem off track for my usual bloggings but in battling my now documented bulge I have come across this book, and I’d like to shout about it a bit. I should add for the record that I’ve been a bit in love with Jillian Michaels since I was forced to watch America’s Biggest […]
Read More The Skinny Thing- Master Your MetabolismAs the late May Bank Holiday draws to a close I’m sitting back to enjoy the plethora of expected instagram shots of late night pub selfies, painful sunburn shots and of course BBQ updates. BBQ season is officially open and personally I’m thrilled to see so many people throwing themselves into the annual outdoor cooking […]
Read More BBQ BananasSome time ago I said some pretty good things about Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester. I fear I won’t be repeating many of them here. It isn’t an easy decision to reverse a recommendation but I can’t help feeling that TWM has overlooked quality for quantity and in expanding the menu this far have stretched […]
Read More The Perfect Fishfinger Sandwich Hunt: Three Wise MonkeysLocation- Spitalfields Cost- well under £5 for pastries/£10 for hot breakfast plus coffee. Highlight- a perfectly poached egg Lowlight- not really Overall- 9/10 You may remember Cafe a Vin, a pleasantly pokey bar and brasserie at the back of the Galvin brothers’ triumph that is La Chapelle in Spitalfields. You may not remember any such […]
Read More The Breakfast Club- Galvin HopPeanut butter is something I had to grow into as I remember despising it as a child mainly due to the cloying consistency over the roof of my mouth which somehow is one of the biggest appeals now. Definitely one to join coffee, onions, beer and sea vegetables as tastes worth acquiring and I’m not […]
Read More Food Hero: Peanut ButterMonkey Magic. This was a quick fix breakfast to counterbalance the horror of an early start on a Sunday morning which I think we can all agree should be illegal. Sweet and easy on the stomach this felt like a childhood throwback to milkshakes and foam bananas and eating Chunky Monkey Ben & Jerry’s on […]
Read More Smoothie #8
Food. Boom. 