Category: Food & Drinks

  • I shouldn’t cross post everything from my food blog to here, but this summer favourite is highly recommended! Make sure you choose nice ripe avocados, they’ll be soooo much tastier! This is one of the best summer recipes I’ve seen…

  • When I received an email from the Domestic Goddess, asking me to join her Canada Day blogging event, I could think of one dessert in particular that deserved mention. The pouding chômeur, or poor man’s pudding, simply put, is a…

  • Following the publication of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat, Clotilde from Chocolate & Zucchini got involved in a discussion with 3 other French women. Her post about it is here along with the follow-up comments, while the transcript…

  • Following Jamie’s School Dinners tv series, the British government is finally reacting to the needs for better food in school cafeterias. Chef Jamie Oliver has welcomed the government’s extra £280m to tackle the school meals “crisis” in England. At least…

  • With the back-and-forth pull between the attraction to junk food some people have and the opposite movement to be healthy and free of toxins, a new name has been given to the more common than ever obsession with healthy eating.…

  • Cross-posting from my other blog: Salmon & Prawns brochettes and Veggie Kebabs for the BBQ. MmmMmmMmm

  • Jamie’s School Dinners shows the junk food culture in schools and the unbelievable lack of education kids have towards food and health. Most of them didn’t manage to recognize rhubarb, a leek or an asparagus. They ate Turkey Twizzlers and…

  • I decide to start myself another blog dedicated to food and drinks! This way, I won’t be drowning this blog in food comments, though I’m sure I’ll cross-post between both blogs when I find something irresistible! It’s like one big…

  • We left Friday night and made it down to Brighton in record time, considering everyone expected the snow to cause traveling to grind to a halt. It was a nice chilled out evening in with Lisa, Stu and the cats……

  • Not terribly useful for me, but here is a list of restaurants where you can eat under $10 in New York. It’s been making me hungry, reading through the descriptions of all 100 mostly family-run restaurants/joints… Now if only someone…