Food and recipes
Food and recipes
Dryathlon day 20: Comfort food
I have been a prisoner in my own kitchen this weekend – not because anyone has forced me but with the oven on it’s the warmest place to be in this continuing cold weather! Yesterday was a baking day and between us (while putting together the Spotify Dryathlon Dance mix) my daughter and I made…
Dryathlon day 13: If you can’t drink it cook with it!
Blogging late again after a lovely relaxing Sunday. I spent a lot of the afternoon in the kitchen cooking with my daughter. I made pheasant cooked in red wine with spices and jumbo raisins and red cabbage with bacon with a splash of port. Before you report me to the Dryathlon Police I can confirm…
Dryathon day 5: Happy
So yesterday I was grumpy – today I am happy! After another night of bizarre dreams I got up and did the yoga that I was supposed to do yesterday. Then I jumped on the scales to be amazed that I was nearly 3lbs lighter than the start of January. My friend Jan who lives…
Dryathlon day 4: Grumpy
Last night I again slept really deeply – so much so that I over slept and missed my early morning yoga class damn it! Friday night is curry night in our house and I cooked some rather spendid vegetarian dishes event though I say it myself! Then my son Tom decided to open a beer…
Dryathlon day 1: Detox!
Most years I plan to go dry for January! It’s fine for the first few days then I inevitably slip off the waggon and go back to my evil drinking ways… Well this year is going to be different. My son Tom told me about the Cancer Research Dryathlon just before Christmas and threw down…
Limoncello part 2
Well I have failed to post very day for advent this year – this week has been so buy with work and getting ready for Christmas. However I did succeed in getting the Limoncello finished as you will see here……and one or two of you may find a bottle in your Christmas stocking this year!!
Advent: 10th December – Limoncello
Every year at Christmas I always come up with one scheme or another to make something a bit different to eat or drink. Last year it was raspberry gin and pickled pears. This year I stumbled across the recipe for Limoncello via the Domestic Sluttery Blog and though that I would give it a go.…
Advent Blog: 4th December
Today has been very cold and when you sit at a desk in an old house with out much heating you need a bit of warming up! Cue a visit to the fridge to gather up all the slightly tired looking veggies to turn them into a lovely soup. This is my homemade minestrone. To…
