I blog, you blog, they blog, WE blog

I have been thinking rather a lot lately about this whole food blogging phenomenon that has swept across the pages of our much beloved Internet. Long gone are the days when The Interweb was purely a geek preserve, a place to swap conversations consisting of capital letters and ASCII characters, spark amazing – and not …

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Red and Black, Addiscombe.

I was actually going to go to bed about half an hour ago and then I started looking at the photos from my meal out on Friday. So now I'm hungry again despite eating the last of my brown rice and gammon bake.Lovely New Person (okay, Col from hereonin) and I had a weekend date …

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That’s the leftovers done with.

Rice and gammon bake. That's what I had in mind.Now. I have learned a lesson here and that is that brown rice takes AN AGE to cook and far more water than white rice does.I have cooked brown rice before, and never had any such trouble but my word, I must have had what a …

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Di Paolo café, Bexhill on Sea

Every so often, No 1 Boyfriend and I head to his place in Bexhill. A sort of a Pied à Mare I suppose.We either go for a spot of much deserved RnR, where I squeak happily at the sea and have all the windows open so that I can fall asleep to the sound of …

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Food Blogger meet ups: No 1

The 16th December dawned icy, snowy, sleety and cold. Not the best weather for a meet up but I donned many layers, sensible boots (like I own any other kind) a hoodie and my bestest red fraggle skin coat. I was on a mission and nothing was going to put me off it.I had a …

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Christmas 2010 reading haul!

I usually forget what I add to my Amazon wish list, but that is a bonus as then everything is a surprise! I got other books too, including a lovely signed copy of Maureen Lipman's biography - but these ones are for posting here.My amazing Christmas Haul!I also received At Elizabeth David's Table. It's a …

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Le Garrick

The last time that I went out to an evening dinner with C it was to Acornhouse and we had a very good time indeed. http://cookwitch.blogspot.com/2010/11/acornhouse-restaurant-kings-cross.htmlLast Thursday, after an email conversation that went along the lines of "I have a hankering for French. Can you look at Open Table." and then a flurry of "Oooh …

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Christmas! Well good grief.

After many years of being a confirmed Christmas pudding hater, I finally tasted one that I liked. It took me by surprise I can tell you! Why did I taste it when I hate the stuff? Well, it smelled heavenly for one thing and for another, I have a habit of trying a foodstuff I …

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A Thank You.

I have many thank yous to say for this year. People have been outstanding in their gifts of time, and love and care.In the foodie world, I would like to thank people too.Kavita of Kavey Eats - http://www.kaveyeats.com/Mimi of Meemalee's Kitchen - http://www.meemalee.com/Danny of Food Urchin - http://foodurchin.blogspot.com/Anne of Tales from the Tiny Kitchen - …

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