** ** Lots of the above. Christmas day was lovely. Its all been a bit of a blur since then. I've been working from home but given the weird timings this betwixt the big date weeks, its hard to keep track of the actual…
Food
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Eating and drinking and eating and drinking
Jam dayEirene made a batch of hedgerow jam With freshly picked this morning fruit. Blackberry crabapple rosehip & elderberry to be specific. Bramble jam. Hedge in a jar. Lovely. The blackberries in particular seem to be a bit…
Fotography of phoodLast Tuesday I got to do a combo of two of my (many) fave things – eat food and take photos. It’s been a while since I’ve had a photography gig, but I’d volunteered to be involved in this one. We’re doing a recipe book…
Jaygo's 11th birthdayMonster breakfast.
Graze Nibble BoxI've just had a Graze Nibble Box delivered to my desk at work. A brilliant idea where they post you a box of tasty healthy snacks on days that you specify. They have 100 recipes - you can either have random, or tweak to…
DragonDrop PieI just made this pie. It was ace.
La GrilladeLast night we got to eat at the fantastic La Grillade in Leeds. I’d been there out of the random blue last November to take some photos of Alan Bennett (Photo Set | Blog Post). I remember thinking at the time, as I…
- Jo Rigatoni
Went to Jo Rigatoni's restaurant in Harrogate last night. An old favorite. It's the most family friendly grown up restaurant we know. Top notch food and service. I was teaching Jaygo how to do the 'catching the waiters…
Sage Bistro for our wedding anniversaryEirene, my lovely wife of 11 years yesterday morning asked where I thought we should go for our wedding anniversary meal. I immidiatly brought out the big guns: "William & Victoria? Drum & Monkey?" The text thread went…
War of the teasI live in Harrogate, home of Betty's and Taylors of Harrogate. They make the Yorkshire Tea. We drink Yorkshire Tea nowadays. I've liked a few other teas - Ringtons Gold…
Jaygo for lunch!Jaygo for lunch! , originally uploaded by DragonDrop . They let Jaygo come home for lunch. He requested my French Onion Soup with Gruyere croutons. So nice to have everyone back for a bit. Such a nice day.
I ate thisWrapping up Felix's birthday week I made a Matt Spesh once we'd got home and settled back in for a day. One of the most viewed pictures I've ever taken (largely due to the fact that flickr blog used it) was of a very…
West MerseaStunning day today. The weather was amazing. We headed for the an island called Mersia - because I'd read about "The Oyster Bar" there. We arrived a short while before it opened so decided to go for a walk along the…
- Salsa Verde
Had a very peaceful weekend. It seems that the ratio of peaceful verses full on / party hard weekends is tipping in the favour of peace at the moment. Very nice. Spent the weekend hanging, chillaxing, and not feeling…
- A week without the boys
We have just said goodbye to our boys as they are away on cub / scout camp this week at Kielder. Just the 3 of us, which will be nice to spend some Q time with Sophie. Just made us all yummy lunch of home made French…