What have you got planned for the long weekend? It is the last bank holiday before Christmas so the perfect excuse to celebrate with family and friends. Personally we have had a few weeks of holiday eating and drinking, out for tea and cake and the ‘wine time’ or ‘Gin o’clock’ has crept up to late afternoon on a few weekdays! So I am thinking back to school, and ‘cutting back’, I know its boring but true… starting after the Bank Holiday. I am a big believer in what we eat aff

Further down the list of festive preparations, however, I cannot find a purple tractor for my 5 year old nephew, every other colour, the hunt continues! My blog from this time last year where I talked about Christmas present ideas and home kits were popular.  Here we are again and there are still some of my favourites on the Delicious Magazine, Gift Guide for this year (like to think I am accurate with my predictions). “For the experimental – home-curing kits for salmon or ba

Friday Foodie blog time and it happens to land on the 1st December 2017. An appropriate time to start the Christmas countdown. In our house the advent calendars for the children are up and on the local radio station this morning, in the breakfast show, the countdown to Christmas being sung out loud! Its easy for me to sit back and say what should have happened, or in an ideal world… but how far are you with the Christmas preparations? There are a lot of families out there tha

Last weekend I had a trip away with some girlfriends near Valencia, Spain. I have recommended a weekend away to a few of my Mum friends since coming home, I am sure it renews the patience levels, and makes you ‘ready for all the family stuff’. The food as I remember from last year was outstanding. We just didn’t have anything even slightly bland or a dish that didn’t look and taste incredible! I do want to just talk about my favourite find which was the savoury ice cream. Now