First posted Oct 2015 When you're too tired to cook or shop and need to rely on a larder staple for a quick meal, this is one of my favourite fall backs. It's great loaded into baked potatoes, with buttered crackers, on healthy celery, or to jazz up cold roast chicken or a pack of... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si: The Salt Room, Brighton
There are no two ways about it. On a grey Wednesday lunchtime, spending fifty notes on a hot crustacean platter is pretty decadent. Maybe not if you're an on-expenses food critic or a lady who lunches, but for a couple of jobbing builders in Brighton for a work trip, it's one of those moments. Are... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si : Mhor Fish, Callander, Scotland
As regular readers know, wherever we travel to with work - currently all over the UK on 15 different TV renovation projects - I ask pals to hit me up with suggestions for fabulous fish. There's gotta be some perks to be away from home right? However Si's seafood search can't be all gigantic seafood... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si : Crabbshack, Glasgow
"It'll just be a little detour" I promise him as we leave Stirling "Apparently there's a couple of nice stretches of water not far from here and we should be able to see a lot of it in an afternoon." That'll be me completely under-estimating the size of the Trossachs region and the 22 lochs.... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si: The Lobster Shack, Whitstable
Every family has it's favourite phrases don't they? There's a very apt one here at Moregeous HQ which begins with my darling and long lost Mia Cat, passes onto Builder Cat and is also totally applicable to me: "Prawn Whore". The dusty corners of my memory are telling me it was first coined by work... Continue Reading →
Where The Light Gets In, Stockport
So much has already been written about Where The Light Gets In, a relatively new addition to the Northern eating scene but one which has caused a tsunami sized culinary splash. If you're the sensible sort and choose to avoid the Trip Advisor 'I Prefer A Good Carvery' nonsense and instead trust in far more... Continue Reading →
Love + Labour’s Wine & Cheese Feast
In the renovation game staying in is most definitely the new going out, and as 3yr renovators in chief, Mr M and I rarely venture Out Out. On the rare occasion we do have a foray into the big wide food world, it's usually to either old favs where we know we won't be disappointed... Continue Reading →