At Dragondrop, if you bring home a certificate, you get to choose the evening meal. If are awarded two certificates in a row you get to choose the desert as well. This is a highly regarded prize and tonight Felix got to…
Food
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- Bacon sausage burger burgers
Shove TuesdayTonight we have enjoyed eating pancakes many different ways. I don't mean upside down or whilst singing 'The birdie song'. I mean taking a step away from the Dragondrop traditional lemon and sugar topping and trying…
- Online shopping
I have started shopping online using the stores free 'click and collect' service. I shop on Sunday afternoon when Annie is asleep and then collect my groceries Monday morning before Pi goes to school. I detest going to…
The last slice of birthday cake.Last Saturday a lovely friend made me the ultimate birthday cake. Four layers of different favoured sponge comprising of chocolate, chocolate caramel, vanilla and caramel. Generous amounts of caramel and chocolate…
- Bye bye dehydrator
The dehydrator is going home tomorrow. It's owner asked if she could collect it today but I managed to persuade her to let me keep it for one more day. So tonight I am having a dehydratathon. With every shelf is full,…
Cafe CultureToday the children,Sophie's friend and I met up with the children's Grandparents for a spot of lunch at Jaygo's favourite cafe on Leeds road. Even though the children were well behaved, it was very brave of them to meet…
Rice flour muffinsI have a friend coming over tomorrow who is coeliac so I thought I would bake some rhubarb gluten free muffins. It's hard to find off the wall recipes using British measurements so armed with my only American measuring…
- Simon's birthday
Today we and some of our friends celebrated Simon's birthday by having lunch at Salsa Posada, a Mexican restaurant in Harrogate. For a change we decided to be early and we actually were! It felt great. Salsa had…
- Dehydrated food results
Well the results are in. The banana turned out beautifully. The individual slices turned into banana crisps, naturally sweet and tasty. The beef also turned out well. Perhaps could do with a little more flavour and…
DehydratorOur friends have gone holiday leaving their Dehydrator in our care. I have been experimenting with dehydrating food in the oven but this has inevitably resulted in charred offerings. I am too impatient and just haven't…
- Happy as clams
What a lovely evening we have just spent with some good friends who live in York. Matt made a fabulous seafood chowder and George made not one but two very tasty cakes. The ccarrot cake came complete with tiny marzipan…
Daddy John's chocolate vodkaTonight we went to a friends to have pizza and exchange Christmas presents. Our lives have been so busy that it has taken till now for us to have an evening free at the same time. Daddy John is getting Chocolate vodka.…
- Asharun Spices
It's a beautiful winters morning in Harrogate. Syndi, Annie ,Elsie and I are out on a walk around Christ Church. As we walk we chat and inevitably the conversation turns to one of my favourite subjects, food. Syndi is…
- Hospital food
Last year Jay had an operation on his leg. Today he an appointment with his consultant to check everything is OK. Thank goodness it is. Being back in hospital with Jay inevitably brings back memories of when he was so…
Shopping and cookingAround the third of January, when I started my "blog every day this year" quest, I wrote " I’ll try and avoid the“Here’s a blog about my lunch” cliché, but I can’t guarantee it’ll be entirely lunch free.". So far, I've…