The WW Foodie

After the wonderful, thoughtful and supportive comments on last week’s post, it seems churlish to just post a sausage recipe and then disapp...

Well, I promised you a delicious sausage recipe... Hang on.  I have to pause here to snicker about the phrase "delicious sausage...

Snow angel My attendance at WW meetings have been sporadic recently. I have tried several local ones and not found a leader I like ...

I am absolutely determined to stay on track this week despite feeling like I'm going through the mill a bit at the moment.  And the best...

My grandmother died yesterday.  She suffered an aneurism shortly after Christmas and, although initially she seemed to be responding to trea...

It's been a while since I threw myself into meal planning but if I'm serious about shifting some poundage this year then it really n...

Is it snowing where you are?  I feel a tad short changed here in Leeds - there was talk of snow and yet here we are, clear skies and not a f...

So let us attempt to leave all the doom and gloom behind us and talk Nice Things to Eat.  And this, my friends, is one of my all time favour...

Why hello 2013, how nice of you to come. One week in and already I am unconvinced that 2013 is set to be a vintage year. After spending mo...

Ah, the post Christmas pre New Year slump. That time of year when we can barely raise ourselves from the sofa except to stagger to the tin o...

2012 may not have been a vintage year for weight loss (ha! What else is new - Ed) (brief pause to stab Editor with a sharpened bread stick) ...

To those of you who read and comment and make me smile on a regular basis... To those of you who have popped by on a whim or by the happenst...

Since September, my attempts at losing weight have, if I am honest (and where else should I be but here on my blog) been half arsed. As exc...

This weekend saw me make my inaugural trip to Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland. I don't know how on Earth this has passed me by before;...

Sometimes, what a girl really needs is to go out with other girls, have a couple of cheeky g&ts, some lovely food and a good gossip. Now...

A good market warms the cockles of a foodie's heart. And fortunately there is a very lovely one a mere twenty five minute walk away from...

I was round at D's last night and he cooked the most fabulous supper that I have to share with you. It's another from Heston Blument...

Foraging is quite the in thing nowadays. Actually, strike that, I think we've passed foraging and progressed to street food. Or have we?...

Yesterday, after a day in the classroom, I was seized with the desire to come home and bake. This muffin recipe has been in my file for a lo...

Wow, it's been a while since I did one of these. But I am determined, determined to start eating like a normal person again rather than...

D (husband) is not the only important initial in my life who has a birthday in October. The eleventh of said month marks the arrival into th...

It has long been a rule in our household that no one (read: me) is allowed to mention the C word until after D's birthday. Well, that ha...

Lesley is very wise. In a comment on my last post she pointed out that there was nothing to stop me blogging about things other than food a...

I was chastised over the weekend for my lack of blog updates. The trouble is that my cooking and eating is a bit meh at the moment. I'm...

In which I discuss the art of dating and provide a very user friendly version of Heston Blumenthal's macaroni cauliflower cheese. D an...