The WW Foodie

2016 proved a bad year to be a celebrity or, indeed, a fan of democracy. But leaving all of that aside, the really important issue is what ...

I'm braising red cabbage at the moment, which is filling the house with a very (for me) Christmassy scent. I make this recipe pretty mu...

I am unclear as to when a stew ceases to be a stew and becomes a tagine. I'm calling this a stew, despite the obviously Moroccan influen...

Coming into the holiday period, with far more social engagements popping up than is usual, it is going to be tough over the next few weeks t...

I write this from the living room which has been festooned with fairy lights and currently boasts not one but TWO Christmas trees. Joy. Th...

If I still included Weight Watchers points at the bottom of the recipes on here, this one would probably stand at eleventy million.  There i...

It's December everybody!  We're already five days into our Advent Calendar, and the countdown to Christmas is well and truly on - hu...

I need to start handwriting accounts of our foodie adventures when (or just after) they occur.  I could buy myself a new notebook for the pu...

There’s only so many times that you can make grand announcements about starting back on the dieting wagon and have people take you seriousl...

Well, here we are, Monday again. The weeks slip by depressingly quickly. I have lots to say but my blogging mojo has been a wee bit lacking ...

I have Paris themed posts to share with you; they currently lurk, slightly disconsolately in my drafts folder waiting for a bit of final TLC...

So here I am in Paris. Bonjour! We arrived yesterday, after a mercifully brief flight from Manchester airport. Good lord, but I hate fl...

This week it was Bonfire Night in the U.K. An occasion on which we celebrate, through the respective mediums of bonfires and fireworks, the ...

It's D's birthday week! On Sunday, the big day, we are off to Whitby. We will walk to the end of both piers and visit the arca...

Meanwood, a suburb to the North of Leeds, has been undergoing something of a middle-classifying since Waitrose opened a branch here several ...

A shamefully long time ago, on arriving back from our Scottish trip, this was waiting on my doorstep. Not literally, you underst...

We've just booked ourselves a long weekend in Paris in November and I could not be more excited. It's been ages since I last visited...

For the past few weeks, this blog has been little more than a series of meal plans which, while clearly an important part of social history ...

Ugh, I don't understand where the weeks go. I'm sure it was only yesterday that I was writing up last week's meal plan and yet.....

It's hard to believe that we are entering the final quarter of the year. Colour me shocked. Still, these last few months are often the v...

I read a story this morning that Kirsty Allsopp, she of the C4 property series "Location x 3", had provoked ire among her Twitter ...

Meanwood is an area of Leeds that I think is best described as "up and coming". We like it very much and one large draw is the ver...

Holidays well and truly over and it is back to routine which means back to meal planning. The Bottomless Freezer (TM) has finally been (just...

Stews are generally best made at least 24 hours in advance to allow the flavours to acquire enough depth to make them worthwhile. This one, ...

The alarm went off at 5:15 this morning and we left Mull by the 7 o clock ferry which smelled strongly of stewed coffee. I dozed for much of...