My Blog

Category: Food

  • Shining forth

    Right, today we are going to attempt to insert pictures one by one and make the text flow around them, not as easy as that may sound, although if you have ever tried to format a Word doc in three minutes flat, just before you need prints for a meeting,  you will share my pain…

  • #dingding

    Busy day yesterday, we met our friends the  White family for lunch at Cafe Andaluz , then Team Holmes boarded an  Edinburgh tram for the very first time,  and rode in style from St Andrew Square to Shandwick Place.  For those of you unfamiliar with this transport farrago, they are massively over budget and put a…

  • Thought for the Day

    Here’s a thing, and you might want to finish your breakfast first. I make it my business to visit and evaluate ladies’ loos the world over.  Current most interesting –  the ones in the St. Petersburg food market.  Tip topper most, our own, with calming colour scheme, decent selection of reading material,  digital radio*, Ecover…

  • Dereliction of duty

    Poor old BTW always seems to suffer in the summer, seems we must be making good use of that extra day light after all.  The birds all seem to disappear for several weeks round about now, but they’re back with a vengeance;  from the upstairs office window I have just watched a flock of blue…

  • Out, out, damned Spotty Dog

    Sometimes, and I know you will find this hard to believe, I can’t think of anything to say. No flurry of verbiage rushes unbidden to the tongue.  No tales, badly told, of chums’ misdeeds or misfortunes are haphazardly heaped on the hapless listener (ok, enough of that).  In truth and in short, I have had…

  • Gang Forth

    Lovely lunch at the Wee Restaurant in North Queensferry today, with Rosemary. Having lived here for over thirteen years, and shared our lives with chums, we have many reasons for feeling ambivalent about the Forth Bridges, which I will not go into here.  But I took some pictures of the FB, resplendent in her fresh…

  • Blitzed

    ..emm, a bit tired to think of a snappy title for the post, but otherwise well.  And there’s so much on the go!  I have shattered a shibboleth by booking a seat to see Madonna at Murrayfield in July.  I’ve discussed the Elton gig in Falkirk with  Margaret  (not going, too pricey and no longer…

  • Davos Dauphinoise

    Does anyone else look at an unpeeled celeriac and think “Ooh, Daleks,”?  Maybe just me then. Anyway, after yet another session in the kitchen where things went less or less according to plan, I am finally arriving at the conclusion that it’s not me, it’s the oven. Or, to be more specific, it’s the temperature…

  • Chicken Tonight

    So, for the first time in four years I decided to overcome my natural antipathy to cooking birds. Set chicken to cook in the fan oven at 230 degrees, as recommended by Saint Delia of the Scones. Let me tell you folks, this is a bad move. It is now an hour later and the…

  • Too good…

    ..to be true?  If you haven’t heard the Tesco/Asda story, here it is as explained to me by my friend Gillian yesterday. Asda will price match your shopping against the other big four supermarkets, simply enter your till receipt’s unique code on line and you will receive a voucher for the difference, should your shopping…