Places

Bruges, Belgium and The Hertog Jan Meal

May 3, 2012

This post follows on from my last on Bruges, and De Hefter Bistro here. Here’s the 14 course meal we had for my birthday at Hertog Jan’s restaurant. The bouquet of roses were waiting for me at our table with a bottle of champagne, they really were the most beautiful roses I’ve received. This set [...]

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Bruges, Belgium and De Refter Bistro

April 30, 2012

It had been almost two years since Bikerboy and I had time on our own, and for my big birthday getaway we stayed two nights in Bruges, Belgium. I have a big thank you to say to the charming and informative Elizabeth from Elizabeth On Food blog for recommending the gorgeous hotel and the [...]

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Why Start A Food Blog? And Can You Make Money Out Of It? Part I

January 5, 2012

Why? Because you want to. And the next answer is no, you can’t make money out of a food blog, or to be more precise, you can’t make a living directly. Not as things are, whether it will change or not, that I don’t know. I’ve been blogging for just over 2 years and in [...]

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Baking with Roland in Cucugnan

October 24, 2011

A week ago today I arrived in Cucugnan to bake with Roland Feuillas in his bakery and learn about what this man so highly spoken of by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac was doing in a small village in the South West of France. I didn’t have a clue what to expect since Jean-Philippe said very little [...]

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Cucugnan Medieval Village, South of France

October 20, 2011

Here I am, months after my first conversation back in June with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac in Paris while searching for good bakeries, I’ve finally arrived in Cucugnan. Back in Paris on pressing Jean-Philippe to tell me what his favourite bread was he had one name for me; Roland Feuillas. Roland embodies the purest form of [...]

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And Off to France I Go…

October 16, 2011

The process of clearing the garage has began, skip has been filling up and the builders have been to measure out and start the process this coming week of turning it into a utility room. The idea is for me to have more space for my baking and expand my micro-bakery as my kitchen is [...]

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Farmers’ Markets Are So Expensive

August 21, 2011

The market is a familiar place for me. I was brought up the first 10 years of my life by my Gran, who would often take me to our local town market on a Friday to sell her small bag of home grown beans and a couple of rabbits or hens, live and kicking. Once [...]

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Breakfast this Morning at Princi – Soho

July 31, 2011

After being told I should try the bread at Princi in Soho, London we decided to have breakfast there this morning. We’ve been having Sunday breakfast in different places with the 4 year old over the last few weeks. This Sunday before breakfast we wanted to drive past Big Ben to show her how big [...]

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Paris – In Search of Bakeries

June 23, 2011

Yesterday I had a fantastic day in Paris visiting bakeries, a favourite pastime of mine and in the company of the charismatic Jean-Philippe de Tonnac. What more can a girl like me ask for? Walking from Gard du Nord we started in a bakery in Montmartre called Coquelicot, where I tasted with my first coffee of the day one [...]

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When a Farmers Market Lets You Down – Marylebone High Street

May 19, 2010

A Morning Off I don’t live near a farmers market but very much like the idea of it, the principal of grower selling their best direct to consumer. I love nothing more than browsing through markets when on holiday, I like to see the sort of foods the local growers have, the sort of cheeses, [...]

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Megève France continues..

February 18, 2010

Here’s the second post of our four night trip to Megève in France. We left the resort on the Monday of the English half term and by then the lifts were crowded, queues were long and at the start of the easier pistes it was busy but we both felt there wasn’t as much shoving [...]

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Megève, France

February 15, 2010

I’m posting this from our last night in Megeve, France and I’m hoping tomorrow morning before we depart in the afternoon I’ll have a chance to photograph more of our four night get away. This was supposed to be a quick get away from the kids to brush up on our ski skills which were [...]

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