What: Coffee, pastries, cakes, limited kitchen menu. Where: 72 East 1st St, between 1st & 2nd Ave, downtown Manhattan. How Much? Coffee and breakfast $12ish Overall: 9 out of 10 Bluebird was an early addition to my NYC holiday hit list after a quick search for the best coffee local to our mission base in […]
Read More The New York State of Mind- Bluebird Coffee ShopI’ve been harping on about a trip to New York with the older male sibling for some time now and you may be relieved surprised to hear it is over already. We got home five days ago and all that is left of that little adventure is half a can of choc-full-o-nuts in the fridge […]
Read More The New York State of MindI celebrated four years of glorious togetherness with Him this week. For roughly three years and fifty weeks of this time he has been banging on about ‘the best curry’ he has ever had, and how we will go there one night. I have to confess I’ve never been that keen on taking Him up on […]
Read More A Little Plug- Curry Nights of MaldonA quick, easy recipe for you and a rare success from my slow cooker, debuted for Booze Booze Booze night at the September meet of the Victoria Inn Cookery Club. It was then titled ‘French Soup’ though I must now confess I used a Kiwi wine. It’s dead easy to do and was well received, by […]
Read More Adventures in Slow Cooking- Easy Onion SoupThere are many places in the world which have absolutely no need at all for a thumbs up from me, and the world famous American Bar at the Savoy Hotel, just off the equally famous Strand in London, is certainly one of them. The hotel itself a beautiful spectacle just for a walk through if you […]
Read More A Little Plug- The American Bar at The Savoyed 30.05.16 more recent review here pls see if planning to eat here ed 30.03.16- note originally written prior to ground-floor expansion, very different feel now If you’re local to Colchester and you’ve not been to Three Wise Monkeys yet you are probably really sick of everyone going on about how you should go there. […]
Read More Three Wise MonkeysI would like to draw your attention to a marvellous product from a marvellous person- The Bhaji Man. I was lucky enough to be stationed next to the Bhaji Man at a recent food festival outing in my other life (http://www.facebook.com/happytummiestreats) and frankly, he’s awesome. A happy little fella peddling spice kits and chutneys to […]
Read More A Little Plug – The Bhaji Man!Salsa: Spanish language term for ‘sauce’, wildly overused in cookery terminology to describe all manner of hot and cold dips, drizzles, sides and accompaniments. see also: hip-wiggle heavy dance discipline dependent on black silk shirts and excessive amounts of hair gel. Like many a child of the 90s my first experience of salsa was of the […]
Read More Salsa SaladAqua 8– small but swanky mid price restaurant in central Ipswich offering ‘Creative Pan Asian’ cuisine and currently the top of my ‘Must Revisit’ list. I discovered them on recommendation for a half decent Chinese before a theatre outing in Suffolk’s county town, in doing so discovering the high point of an otherwise disappointing weekend. […]
Read More A Little Plug- Aqua 8As promised from the last VIFC review, full instructions for the slow cooked stew I cobbled together using commonly heralded ingredients from the era, rather than an actual recipe. Because I couldn’t find one. I must give due respect to the fellow foodies for all piling in for this without so much of a squeam […]
Read More Adventures In Slow Cooking- Medieval Stewed Heart
Food. Boom. 