Category: kitchen
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Winter Solstice Vibes
I started writing this post for Black Friday- something that didn’t even exist in this country ten years ago – a day dedicated to ramping consumption, consumption of products designed to be obsolete by the following year’s Black Friday – but alas procrastination set in and I never finished it. But here we are six…
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Jerk Season!!
The title is so accurate in many different contexts #LookingAtYouTrump- but I am of course referring to this years Caribbean Food Week The CFW festival will return to Windrush Square in Brixton on 26th – 28th of August 2017. In warm up to the festival, I whipped up a couple of meals using Caribbean favourites…
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Caribbean Food Week 2016
So the Olympics are almost over (as is the Summer if today’s weather is anything to go by…) but there are still plenty of reasons to smile this August in London. Not only is it the Notting Hill Carnival next weekend – but on Friday 26th – Saturday 27th August, Grace Foods UK is holding its first…
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Nude parsnip and pear soup
It seems competition is the only way to get me to take pictures of my food and post them on the net. This time it was the allure of my soup being made in bulk and delivered to my work place (a primary school) on the soup scooter.. oh the mayhem 🙂 ! A simple…
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Hello Fresh! Hello discount!
I’m not the best chef in the world. This is no secret. But I have definitely improved since we subscribed to Hello Fresh almost a year ago. Besides saving money, waste and cutting down on Take Aways Tuesdays (…Wednesday’s et al) a quite unexpected benefit has been my husbands willingness to experiment more in the…
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The Great Brixton Bake Off
The Great British Bake Off is a big deal in our abode. For me it’s actually one of the few ‘reality’ competition shows where I don’t want them to all lose. And this year it seemed like the whole nation was gripped with Bake Off fever. Sitting rooms across the land were full of soggy…
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