Category: food
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Pumpkin spice latte season
As pumpkin spice latte season approaches and I continue to avoid Starbucks I thought it was time to get on with making my own coffee. I followed the following recipe from foodnetwork.com but it basically comes down to the following: 1 or 2 tablespoons of pumpkin puree (can from Waitrose) 1 or 2 tablespoons of…
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10 minute creamy mushrooms with cous cous
Chop up a few mushrooms, as many as you fancy. Chop up finely, half a clove of garlic. Rub some sea salt on it to grind it up a bit. Melt some butter in a frying pan, add a tablespoon of flour add the mushrooms fry a bit add a quarter of a stock cube…
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No. 4 Clifton Village, food review
The night we visited No. 4 Clifton Village couldn’t have been darker or wetter if we had come off a boat and landed in Alaska (in the dark). Compared to the horrible outside, the surroundings were softly lit and enticingly coloured all due to some recent refurbishing, apparently. Tapestry in rich red colours hung on…
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Who feeds Bristol and what can we do about it?
Did you know that 10 in 35 Bristol wards don’t have a greengrocer? According to where you live in the city, this may or may not surprise you. I live in the city centre and while I hear of people selling fresh fruit and vegetables in the Bear Pit on Pero’s Bridge and on North…
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Flinty Red at the Bristol Old Vic
On a Tuesday morning, before swimming, my little girl and I went for breakfast at the Bristol Old Vic. We ate at Flinty Red on the first floor. The divine restaurant from Cotham* Hill has in the three years since it opened up earned a bib gourmand and joined forces with the oldest theatre in…
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Herbert’s Bakery, Montpelier
I heard about Herbert’s bakery when a four-day pop up restaurant took over at the site of the Runcible Spoon and I tried their egg and bacon sandwich. The bread was the overnight white bloomer from Herbert’s and I was determined to find it and bring some home. From the city centre it doesn’t take…
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Scones recipe
Here’s my tribute to the Great British Bake Off which is back on the telly, my attempt at Mary Berry’s scones recipe. These are the ingredients you will need: 450g (1lb) self-raising flour 2 rounded tsp baking powder 75g (3oz) butter 50g (2oz) caster sugar 2 large eggs about 225ml (8fl oz) milk To serve…
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Top five places for breakfast in Bristol
Update: this list has been updated at this link Breakfast suggestions were flying around Twitter this morning so I thought I would put together a top five for this weekend. 1. 40 Alfred Place is hosting a French pastry morning this Saturday with delicious taste sensations baked by Laura from Harts Bakery. From 8am till…
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Pancakes with cottage cheese
My adventures in different types of pancake have continued this week. I’ve been on a bit of a ricotta high after the blueberry success last week so when I only had half a cup of soy milk left and half a tub of cottage cheese in the fridge… well… the future just wrote itself. Here’s…
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