Food

Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!

Back on the 5:2

Food by LoisAugust 29, 2013

Success! A carrot cake recipe that works!

Food by LoisAugust 25, 2013March 7, 2020

Food by LoisAugust 25, 2013September 20, 2013

Michael Deacon makes me chuckle!

Michael Deacon is a parliamentary commentator for the Daily telegraph, and writes amusing but perceptive sketches about what goes on in Parliament; he also writes a TV columns and today he has excelled himself commenting on ‘The Great British Bake-Off’ a TV cookery show. Judges on talent shows are meant to be scary, but Paul Hollywood of The […]

Blue Ocean

Food by LoisAugust 25, 2013August 25, 2013

I wanted to go to Wagamama’s, and…

Food by LoisAugust 24, 2013

Pastry

Food by LoisAugust 14, 2013August 11, 2013

Food by LoisAugust 10, 2013

Making a cake

it’s really only fun to make a cake if you’re making it for someone else; I love cake-making but I’m not really a great cake-eater and when the children are away from home and when we have no visitors there are no cakes baked in this house. I used to enjoy the children’s birthdays when […]