My skills are still not yet developed enough to get my head around creating a side index of the items which have appeared since this blog started. At present you have to scroll as patiently as you can before discovering earlier posts.

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I'll gradually add helpful text and tags to those titles which aren't self-explanatory.

2024

August
Spiced Damson Chutney
The best ever chutney? Delia says so…

July

Le 6 à Table, Caromb - version française

Le 6 à Table, Caromb
Not everything in France was great for us in 2024

Relais de Poste - Saint-André-De-Cruzières, Ardèche
Beautiful accommodation - and food! - in the Ardèche

Le Nid, Flayosc - version française
Our lovely meal with Davy and Emilie - recounted in my worst French!

Le Nid, Flayosc
Our lovely meal with Davy and Emilie

March

eBains

GBM 2024 - The Fish Course Discourse

February

Dinner At Home - 23 February 2024

January

Dinner At Home - 20 January 2024

2023

October

Le Champignon Sauvage - Dining With Two Stars

The Terrace, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight

Manifest - Wine Bar & Restaurant - Liverpool

September

The Beatles Story
Review

Plums - Swollen But Not Bruised
A lovely delivery from Nearly Naked Veg followed by plenty of cooking

June

Beach House, Oxwich
Brilliant Welsh hospitality

May

Buy Good Art: Julie Smith and “In-Stitches”
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

April

Three-cornered Leek (Allium Triquetrum)
Foraging. Free stuff.

Adam Handling's 'Strawberry and Ginger Trifle'
For the Coronation. Or for any ruddy time you ruddy well like!

March

Great British Menu 2023 - Two Predictions
Main and dessert banquet decisions to be made.

Endeavour
Final series all done and dusted - time to watch again!

Great British Menu 2023: Scotland

January

Marmalade Supplies January 2023
Supplies, SUPPLIES! (thank you, Cilla)

THE JEWS HOUSE Lincoln
Restaurant review. A good start to 2023!

ARRAS - York

2022

December
Food Heroes - Gary Rhodes

August
Spiced Carrot - via Chris Simpson at Pensons Restaurant

July
Buy Good Art - Helen Lush

Pensons at The Netherwood Estate

June
Hospitality’s Big Friendly Giant Chefs Inspire My Cooking

2021

December

‘pickled quinces’ - a Diana Henry recipe
Norfolk bounty preserved for Christmas and beyond

Chocolate Orange Pots
Rich, indulgent dessert. Make and enjoy regularly!

October

Pensons
Herefordshire hospitality - heavenly

September

SIMON ROGAN at home - again
One more meal - before we order our third

August

SIMON ROGAN at home
Simon Rogan’s award-winning ‘at home’ meal

June

A Pre-dessert Idea
A small, tasty treat

New York-style cheesecake with citrus zest and aromatics - a Phil Howard recipe

April

TOO MANY CHIEFS ONLY ONE INDIAN/SAT BAINS/
I treat myself - to a treat!

Reigate Priory Lawn Tennis Club
Teenage tennis

March

Civil War News - A Cheat's Collection
School days. Sticky foodstuff. Card collecting. And some despicable behaviour.

Moor Hall - AT HOME BYMARK BIRCHALL
A box of food to cook at home - contents (almost) indescribably delicious

January

Northcote Autumn Gourmet Box - Part One: Arrival

Northcote Autumn Gourmet Box - Part Two: Meal One

Northcote Autumn Gourmet Box - Part Three: Meal Two

A trilogy devoted to Northcote’s delicious gourmet boxes of distraction from Covid-19

Two ‘New’ Petits Fours
Well -kinda new

2020

November

The Angel at Hetton

October

Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons
Reviewed four years after our visit… gulp!

essence
A retrospective.
Some - not quite all - of the recipes I have made from David Everitt-Matthias’ three cookbooks.

September

Le Champignon Sauvage - another stunning meal
More superb hospitality inspiring a Tripadvisor review - and arsehole identification!

Beetroot and bubblegum pastilles
A David Everitt-Matthias combination - it really works!

Food Heroes - Dean, Fresh Grimsby Fish Van Man
Our Man Thursday. With fish. And a van.

August

The Glorious Fifteenth
Le Champignon Sauvage. 33 years - and counting.

Neil Tolliday - Bent’s Nail
A music recommendation - lovely stuff.

George Blogg - A Soufflé Celebration
Raspberry soufflé with buttermilk ice cream and raspberry and mint coulis

June

Buy Good Art: GILLIES JONES
Defiantly decorative, gorgeous glass - 25 years old in 2020
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

Buy Good Art: Rachelle W Designs
Art - worth every penny!
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

Jasmine
Lots of flowers - captured on video

May

Make Good Art: with a little help from Helen Myerscough!
Colouring in - with style - with GAIL(!) Myerscough
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

Buy Good Art: Rebecca Vincent
We saw it - we bought it. No regrets - whatsoever
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

Buy Good Art: Ken Hurd
I’ve said it before - shell out for art and their artists!
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

April

Buy Good Art: Kate Lycett
Lovely art is available. Consider paying for it!
#MakeGoodArt #BuyGoodArt

March

Fish & Chips & Wine
(fish, chips… and wine!)

February

Fabada Asturiana
Cooking at home - via Spain and Papay!

Le Champignon Sauvage - Just A Taste
Another meal with a team of food heroes.

January

Dinner For Four - Coming Soon
Anatomy of a meal not yet cooked. Menu included.

Carvin Jones - Grimsby, 29 January 1999
A gig of nostalgic proportions. Blues guitar was much in evidence. Very good Blues guitar.

James_Making_Stuff
Outlook - FIMO and Snow

New Year's Day Lunch 2020
More than pleasant pheasant

2019

October
June Lunch at Gravetye
A special place. Special people included as standard.

Easy. Tomatoey. Saucy, Tasty.
Lovely fresh and versatile tomato sauce recipe

Better Michelin Than Michel Out, I Suppose
Michelin Guide UK 2020

Au fil du temps
Fine dining in France

September
Vins français 2019 – Introduction
First of a few posts about the wines we bought on our French holiday.

August
caramel-poached pineapple, coconut gel, pineapple and lemon verbena sorbet
Searching for perfection through dessert.

Lasagne and Rioja - Armonia and Armonía
Good food. Good wine. And a cheeky suggestion that they might be put together.

Tomato Tarte Tatin - 'Stella' Stuff
A glorious combination of Diana Henry food and Susy Atkins wine.

Four Petits Fours
Exactly… Four. Petits. Fours.

June
Sticky Walnut - The Food
Chester’s best… unless you know better.

May
Sticky Walnut - Finally
Finding more than great food in Hoole, Chester… Sticky Walnut’s great team

April
Smoked Haddock... Spices, Cream and Crunch
A recipe made slightly on the hoof… well, on the fin, I suppose.

March
Pain d'épices
Relatively simple baking… a great standby

February

Clever Girl
Mrs. Cheoff becomes even more gloriously talented

Food Of The Gods: Creamy Rice Pudding
Marcus Wareing’s take on a classic.

January

Teeth: THREE - The Liquid Foods
Well on the way. Normal chewing will be resumed as soon as possible.

Teeth: TWO - Some Gone. Even More Back Again.
Drastic dental region activity update.

Teeth: ONE - My Teeth. Here Today. Gone tomorrow. Back soon.
Something a bit drastic going on in the dental region.

2018

November

'OUT of my TREE' Midsummer House by Daniel Clifford
Review of 2 Michelin star chef’s book - recipes, warts… but no bullshit!

France 2018 - Les Vins
France 2018 - The Wines (Cheoffle Translate!)

Dinner For Four, 2 November 2018
Great food to share… get cooking!

October

Squashy, Cheaty and Veggie Curry
Great flavours…with a little help from The Spice Tailor®

Oops!
Admonition for my writing… and my reaction.

September

Giles Coren
Online abuse. Libel even. Maybe not the latter.

GREAT BRITISH CHEFS The Cookbook
Links to many of the recipes

August

Pear and vanilla jelly
Petit Four recipe

A Meal... Planned, Cooked and Delivered
A developed meal with recipe links

Brandade
A French classic in miniature

The Black Swan, Oldstead
Restaurant review
(withdrawn from public view after reflection on the poor service received which severely dented our experience!)

Shouting, Yelling, Screaming... SUMMER!
A dessert recipe... quite definitely for summer

The Cellar Door, Totnes
Restaurant review

July

Wimbledon - First Monday, 24 June 2013
Wimbledon memories

Lamb. Spiced Up. With Some Other Stuff.
A Tom Kerridge recipe... mostly

Summer... No Words
Much iconic summer fruit

June

Brodsky Quartet - Bovey Tracey, 9 June 2018
Musical delight

May

Benedicts... Another Helping
The Norwich team deliver birthday happiness to my Mum

Black Grape & Pedro Ximenez Sherry Pastilles
Petit Four recipe

Great Green Garlicky 'Alliaria petiolata'
Foraged ingredient, Jack-by-the-hedge