I love trying new recipes and ways with food, especially when they combine healthy eating with builder sized portions, easily made in a kitchenless house. A few of the 'clean food' bloggers have been waxing lyrical about cauliflower rice & couscous for a while but I hadn't tried it. I'm now hooked! Tasty, fresh and... Continue Reading →
Renovation Recipes: Pimp My Paella With Lemon Roast Chicken Supreme
A hobless house is pretty much a paella free zone, needing as you do the requisite large shallow pan and low simmering heat to create aromatic rice crispy at the edges, fat and juicy in the middle and flavoured with saffron, seafood, chorizo and chicken. I miss not being able to make my own from scratch... Continue Reading →
Ten Easy Courses For Ten Hungover Hungry Hens
I'm a feeder, you all know that by now right? So when kitchenless, you take those feeding opportunities wherever you can find them. Even in the midst of hen party weekend madness.... Ten hungry hens on a Bank Holiday Sunday after a night of prosecco & Saturday Night Fever dancing is about as demanding a food tribe... Continue Reading →
Mid-Reno Roasts: Bourbon & Black, Didsbury
This week's Mid-Reno Roast comes courtesy of a new kid on the Didsbury block, Bourbon & Black. With an RTS Awards hangover in full effect and after cementing several holes in a kitchen wall where our kitchen will soon be, it was time to let someone else feed us up and make us winter warm... Continue Reading →
Review: Le Delicatezze Di Bruno, Manchester
It's very rare after a visit to a restaurant in the UK these days to feel all four of the following: full, happy, healthy and not completely skint. Food prices have rocketed but also I think we're a bit daft, paying through-the-nose prices for mediocre cooking, hyped up 'experiences' i.e. burgers, and often shoddy service.... Continue Reading →
Review: Blitzing up a Smoothie Wars Ninja storm
Living without a kitchen is proving a challenge but I'm doing my best to still cook fresh food using only an oven. Seriously, you don't realise how much you use a hob, how important work surface is and how handy running water on the same floor as your limited cooking facilities are until you've lost... Continue Reading →
Mid-Reno Roasts: Volta, West Didsbury
Oh, I've started something now. Last week's Knutsford trip out was such a treat that the idea of visiting a different Roastie venue each Sunday has firmly taken root. Volta in West Didsbury was recommended as a must try and isn't somewhere I'd clocked as a roast dinner venue without that heads up (thanks Lottie!). It's a... Continue Reading →