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!

Food by Lois

Celebrate!

  We nearly always go out to celebrate a birthday  and my son’s 20th birthday is no exception  It was pouring down with rain, and we hurried from the car to the restaurant  we went to the Flute de Paris, in Weston-super-Mare; we’d never visited before although it has an excellent reputation… and it was very well justified. We had a delicious lunch – […]

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Not cheesy enough!

It was our wedding anniversary at th end of October, and I made up a hamper of goodies for my beloved… including several cheeses, one of which we hadn’t tried before. We left it for a few days, then had a look… I have to say that it was rather disappointing… maybe we were just unlucky, maybe […]

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Too much cauli? It has to be piccalilli!

I bought a huge cauliflower and made some rather gorgeous soup… however as Bari doesn’t like cauliflower, I was left with half a cauli the size of a football. The obvious answer to this cauli-glut was to make it into piccalilli… which I did. I took a lovely picture of all the vegetables cut up and soaking in brine, cauliflower, cucumber, marrow, […]

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