We love picnics here. Both on the farm and, if the weather is bad, on the floor in the living room. I often think of picnics as outside buffets and who doesn’t love a buffet? While I know things like chocolate and crisps are ok as treats every now and then, I do worry that…
There is one area of life I think we can all agree on. We all spend too much money on food. Is it the supermarket’s fault? I’m not sure but there is just so much choice out there that it is so easy to stray off your shopping list a little and end up going…
Ok, ok, I am totally flogging this donkey now but… remember how I won that award for my Nutty Banoffee Fairtrade cake? I’ve only gone and been endorsed by a super-top chef. This could potentially be my first and last award so, I am determined do an Oscar-worthy speech going to milk it for all…
At the beginning of March, I concocted a recipe to help celebrate Faitrade Fortnight. I entered it into a competition with Liberation Nuts to win a fabulous Fairtrade foodie hamper. The competition was only drawn by the amazing chef Allegra McEvedy, comedian Harry Hill and nutritionist Fiona Kirk of Fat Bust Forever who has written…
So we’re coming to the end of Fairtrade Fortnight. I celebrated the start of the two weeks with Fairtrade wine and I am seeing it out with cake-it’s a hard life. I am still on my diet so I will be just looking at said cake and enjoying watching other people eat it having a…
It’s a hard job this blogging malarky but someone’s got to do it. This week I have been sampling wine. Yes you read that right. I had been tasting wine, purely for blogging purposes. Now as we all know, things always taste better when they are free. My wine was not only free (thank you…