The broccoli and almond soup that we had tonight at The Stockpot is repeating on me.

The Stockpot near Haymarket is a cheap restaurant and a strange place, full of taxi drivers, and lonely and slightly loony customers, some talking to themselves or to some imaginary friends, some reading the paper and some drowning their dining companion in a flood ( Read more... )

We spent the morning coooking, and the afternoon eating with Lynne, Gary + Luca, and Luca's Mum.


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How lazy of me! I haven't posted the pictures of the huge lunch that my Mother prepared on Boxing Day.


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Adrian cooked a lovely dinner for us and ( Read more... )

Lynne and Kim are coming round for dinner tonight: it’ll be Kim second “leaving do” (BBQ/party last Saturday, dinner tonight and final drinks at Lynne’s tomorrow evening before Kim leaves on Thursday).

We have known Kim for only 9 months but we’ve grown very fond of her. We’ll be sad to see her go (and we’ll have to keep an ‘eye’ on Lynne as I’m ( Read more... )

We all have different ways of making us feel better. For most of my new countrymen (and women) it’s reaching for the bottle, in my case it’s food.

I eat to fight boredom at work, and - despite trying to go for low fat snacks most of the time - it’s not a healthy habit. I think about food often: sometimes I might even panic if I believe I don’t have ( Read more... )

Nigella's star shone on Eurovision night. Her chocolate pistachio fudge to be served straight from the freezer was quite simply unsurpassable and so easy to make. 
One of our friends had 11 pieces, because well you just cannot say no to it.

We have a few pieces left and thought that they deserved a photoshoot.


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Just like last year (oops, actually the year before last I should say) we decided to have a party on Dec 30th ( Read more... )

The last few days have been hectic ( Read more... )

It almost feels like the week-end has never happened, as it just went so quickly.

On Saturday we went to see "The holiday", the new Christmas romantic holiday.
I must have left my old cynical self at home because I just loved it. Predictable? Corny? Yes, probably... but who cares?
I came out of the cinema with a big smile on my face!

The holiday ( Read more... )