Apple cake

After a complete cake flop last month, at last cake success!



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Waste not

I will be tuning into The Great British Waste Menu at 8.30 tonight. It is unbelievable how much food goes to waste in the UK. Am dutifully roasting odd ends of veggies for tonight but feeling guilty that I had to chuck out mouldy beetroot yesterday!

Swedish escapade

Just back from holiday in Sweden and have become obsessed with Ryviat-style crispbreads! Swedish foody photos to follow.

A year on ... more local asparagus

So it's over a year since I started this blog and we're back to asparagus season again. Love it! It's great to have local grown English asparagus when it's in season. We had a bunch in our veggy box last week and my boyfriend made this fantastic salad with soft boiled eggs, asparagus and carrot chips.
His cooking is way more ambitious and successful than mine these days.
We ate it watching the DVD of Julie and Julia - have been meaning to watch it for months and really enjoyed it - except for Meryl Streep's Julia Child impression which is actually very hard to tolerate! Then yesterday I caught the end of the Food Programme on Radio 4 and they were talking about food bloggers and traditional restaurant reviewers. (listen again here) All this has inspired me to pick up the laptop again and maybe do a bit more of this. Watch this space!

Sunday pub lunch

Lovely day for pub lunch and a walk with friends. Perfect! And look at the size of the yorkshire puddings!


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Roast vegetable strudel

I had six workmates over for dinner on Monday night so last weekend I spent quite a bit of time looking for a recipe I could prepare in advance and whack in the oven when I got home from work. There were only two veggies out of the eight of us in total so I wanted something that wasn't too obviously veggie but it needed to be hearty and a bit impressive too! I found the perfect solution: a roast veg and mozzarella strudel in Delia's vegetarian book. The recipe is also on her website here. You roast the veg first then layer filo pastry, brushing each sheet with melted butter, and sprinkling broken up pecans and grated parmesan between the layers, place the roasted veg in the middle with mozzarella and roll it up and tuck it all in cosily. You can then cover and leave it in the fridge until you're ready to cook. It worked a treat and went down well with veggies and non-veggies alike! Highly recommended.

Jamie fights obesity

Check out this video of Jamie Oliver tackling obesity in the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwrV5e6fMY&sns=em

New hobby

Ok it's not really an excuse for not blogging but I have been learning a new hobby the past couple of months - knitting! I've never been particularly crafty but I've been inspired by my creative friends to give it a go. We formed a " knit and natter" group so the chance to get together for an evening of chatting and drinking wine was another attraction! Anyway, after 3 months I've completed my first project - see picture below - it's a hat by the way!

Ok, back to food in the next post.

Blogging from iPhone

Just downloaded blogging app - maybe this will mean more blog posts!


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Pancake Day!

Ok, I think I've eaten too many pancakes! With cheese, with nutella and with good old lemon and sugar - yum! Oh well, it's traditional and it's only once a year. Now do I have the will power to give up anything for Lent?!?