The WW Foodie

The idea of being a Michelin inspector...now that, surely, is the dream job? I don't think that I'd be good at it though - I hate cr...

We have just had the briefest of sojourns in Vienna - three nights, two and a half days, and it wasn't nearly long enough. Usually after...

With so many amazing restaurants out there, and limited time and funds, a place has to be very special indeed for it to warrant a revisit. L...

I hope that I'm not the only person out there that has an absolutely ridiculous amount of recipe bookmarks. I mean, more dishes than I c...

There are very few times in life when I'm sorry to live in the North of England, despite having grown up on the London / Essex border. B...

  The second HM post and this one also contains a homemade sausage. But I make no apologies because sausages are wonderful things and homema...

August was supposed to be a quiet, relatively frugal month as September and October look set to be quite busy (and spendy). But it doesn...

Welcome to a new, probably infrequent, possibly one episode only series of quick posts talking about meals have cooked at home that we parti...

Just over a fortnight ago, we welcomed a new friend into our home.  Since Minx died the house has felt weirdly empty. Although we will never...

I couldn’t bear to have that last post sitting there at the top of the blog for ever. Even though Minx’s absence is still felt every day.  B...

We lost our beloved Minx Cat last week.  When I say lost, obviously I don't mean misplaced. She wasn't the kind of cat to blend into...

We've had a spate of holidays recently, which has been lovely, although the diary now stretches empty ahead of us until the back end of ...

It's been a good few weeks since we got back from Rome and we still find ourselves talking frequently about the trip, which is probably ...

Of COURSE it was the case that on one of the hottest days of the year I should have planned an evening meal that required a lot of time spen...

Although every meal we had in Rome was memorable, our dinner at All'Oro will linger in the memory for a long time to come, and is quite ...

Pretty much every main meal we ate in Rome, we tried to seek out restaurants doing Roman food - sometimes traditional and sometimes a more m...

We've just got back from a lovely few days in Rome. Despite forecasts to the contrary, we basked in glorious sunshine, walked our feet o...