The WW Foodie

Are we allowed to talk about Christmas yet?  Are we?  It's practically December so I think that's OK.  In the last week or so I'...

I suspect that I was a bear in a previous existence.  Or a hedgehog.  Or a squirrel.  Some sort of woodland animal, the kind who likes to s...

And so to winter.  I loved the crisp cold of this weekend, especially since for most of it I was toasty warm inside and pottering around the...

British food in general has managed to get itself some pretty good PR in recent years and, as a result, the famous edict that to eat well i...

I don’t think that I ever met a sandwich that I didn’t like.  Not all sandwiches are created equal, obviously, and the slightly flabby, pre...

Nigel Slater recently criticised the term foodie.  I like his quote that food should be “something to be quietly enjoyed rather than put o...

It goes without saying that thoughts and prayers are with the people of Paris today.  Maybe it is trite to continue blogging about “What I’m...

There are certain dishes that are never going to be particularly photogenic.  And, as readers of this blog know, I have a way of making eve...

I don’t think that I have ever mentioned Friends of Ham on here and that is very remiss of me because if you were to find yourself ...

Well, another week another meal planning Monday.  And what a miserable Monday it is!  Grey, wet, windy - AND our office didn't have any ...

We've been wanting to go to Restaurant Sat Bains since the early days of Great British Menu when we witnessed him make an amazing slow ...

While we primarily went Nottingham-wards in order to have dinner at Restaurant Sat Bains (an early birthday present from the parents - thank...

My attitude to Weight Watchers this month has been, in common with most of the rest of the year, that I could not give a flying firkin. ...

So, last week saw us pay a visit to the city of Nottingham and, more importantly, to Restaurant Sat Bains which dinner was a thing of b...

We’re trying to expand out breakfast repertoire at the moment.  You may remember that we did a birthday breakfast countdown around this ti...

Sorry for the radio silence.  Life, work…it gets in the way of the fun stuff sometimes.  Plus, with D away last week my meal planning w...

Saturday was World Mental Health Day.  It seems that there is a day for everything now.  Which is not necessarily a bad thing, although...

It’s a proper Autumn day today, the kind where the air is so cold and sharp that it almost hurts to breathe and the leaves crackle unde...

So, over the course of September I managed (drum roll please) to lose exactly nothing.   Exactly nothing.  I am the same weight to within a ...

What a shockingly gloomy day.  I have nothing against cold weather (I rather like it) but to unremitting grey dampness I do object rathe...

Readers, I have given up.  I am simply going to stop trying to make my photographs of food look good.  I’m just not prepared to spend the t...