On Friday night, I went to a dinner party at my brother’s new house. I offered to make the starter and bring it with me, as I had my eye on a particular recipe for what seems like years now. This was the perfect excuse to make it! I spotted the recipe when I was [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Chicken & Spring Onion Terrine
Posted in Come Dine With Me, Dinner Party, Food, Home Baking, tagged black forest ham, chicken and spring onion terrine, Come Dine With Me, Dinner Party, oven bake, starter, terrine on January 23, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Growing Food In Schools
Posted in Food, Growing Food, Uncategorized, tagged every school a food growing school, garden organic, growing food in schools on January 18, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I am a Facebook fan of Garden Organic (who are The National Charity for Organic Growing), and they just posted a message, which popped up in my News Feed. It says: ”We believe that every school should be a food growing school and that every child should have the chance to learn food growing skills”. I [...]
Spaghetti Carbonara
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I received a lovely email recently, from a lady called Sharon. She wanted to let me know about a local restaurant group: The Partner Venues. They run four restaurants in the West End and Glasgow City Centre and give out a magazine, with recipes from the restaurants, to their customers! I’d never heard of it, [...]
Americans
Posted in Comfort Food, Food, freezer friendly, Lunch, midweek meal, tagged Americans, family recipe, grandmothers recipes, sausage stew, stew, traditional recipe on January 8, 2011 | 19 Comments »
This post is dedicated to my Glamorous Gran and namesake, Catherine Noble, who just turned 78 on Wednesday! (What… don’t all pensioners have drum-kits at their birthday party?) My darling Grandmother is a wonderful human being, and I’m not just saying that out of some kind of grand-daughterly obligation. She’s the only person I know who [...]
Self Indulgence?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2011 | 8 Comments »
My poor wee blog, I have neglected you so. I even forgot your first blogiversary :( What an awful human being I am. Let me get my paltry excuse out the way: For reasons unknown, I was under the impression that my first blog post was the 12th January 2010. It wasn’t, it was the 4th. [...]
2010 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s. In [...]
