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Out & AboutMarch 15, 2016

Is SheBu the New Hackney? Our Shepherd’s Bush Safari

By Amanda

With all this talk of exciting East London, poor old West London can sometimes feel like a dull, country-living cousin always wearing the wrong clothes….Of course anyone who actually LIVES in West London knows better, I sometimes wonder if we… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingJanuary 11, 2016

Ferment Your Vegetables by Amanda Feifer

By Amanda

I have no idea why January seems to be the month everyone goes on a diet. I get the Christmas overeating reaction, but January and February are often miserable months that require comfort food and cosy living in front of… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 18, 2015

Mid Week Cooking: Dish Next Door

By Jane

Imagine this – it’s 6pm, you have at least another hours work to do and nothing in the fridge. And even if there was, the thought of cooking when you get in is a step too far. Take aways are… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 13, 2015

Boris Buono and the Ibiza Food Studio

By Amanda

So, Ibiza! After years of wondering, I finally got to go recently. What a gorgeous place it is, I will be going back as soon as I can, its gentle, easy-going vibe and faint hint of 70s hippydom is right… Read More

Home & GardenJune 26, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Herbilicious!

By Amanda

it’s all about herbs this week with guest food blogger Jo Orr At this time of year herbs are at their lush best, so I thought I’d share a couple of recipes that put herbs front and centre- a Tabbouleh… Read More

Home & GardenJune 22, 2015

New Magazine Crush: Cherry Bombe

By Amanda

We are indebted to our roving food and craft reporter Julia Little for bringing the fabulous Cherry Bombe magazine to our attention. Who said magazines were dying? There’s been a rush of fabulous ones to the bookshelves over the last… Read More

Home & GardenJune 19, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Summer greens

By Jane

We are deep into June now, so the ‘greenness’ of both nature and produce is reaching its acme. From the acid green of a moped of frisee lettuce, to the fresh green of broad beans and peas, all the way… Read More

Art & CultureJune 1, 2015

Venice: more art from the Biennale, plus a few travel tips

By Amanda

For anyone wanting to visit Venice, I’d urge you to go off season (don’t even think about August) and to consider staying away from the main drag, on either the Dorsoduro or the Guidecca. We stayed at La Calcina, a… Read More

Home & GardenMay 29, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Food Tales from Scotland

By Amanda

More from our guest food blogger Jo Orr and this weeks she’s in roaming and foraging in Scotland I have travelled 500 miles north to spend the Half Term school holiday with my parents and varied guests in their rambling,… Read More

Home & GardenMay 22, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Food for indecisive weather

By Amanda

The weather this week has been rather Scottish- sudden, torrential downpours followed by blinding sunshine, succeeded ten minutes later by a violent hail storm, then more sunshine producing a gorgeous watery rainbow, its colours blurring at the edges. Then more… Read More

Home & GardenMay 15, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Green Peas and Alphonso Mangoes

By Amanda

Our guest food blogger Jo Orr is tempting us with verdant spring peas and sunshine-tinged Alphonso mangoes this week, I for one LOVE Alphonso mangoes, whose season is brief, so get your skates on…. I brought back a heaving bagful… Read More

Home & GardenMay 8, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: elevating basics with, ahem, Champagne

By Amanda

We’re back with guest food blogger Jo Orr who this week is suggesting elevating basics for a bit of a treat by adding Champagne and, um, Viper’s Bugloss, it’s not often you hear that mentioned in a recipe…. This week… Read More

Home & GardenMay 1, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Warm Salad and a Frozen Coffee

By Amanda

Given the cold winds of this week I thought I’d bring you a warm salad. Something that makes use of the lovely Spring veggies that keep on coming despite the plummeting temperatures (it was snowing in Glasgow on Monday!), but… Read More

Home & GardenApril 17, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Spring Tarts!

By Amanda

Once the magnolia and cherries have bloomed, and the candy-striped apple blossoms are peeking through, I know that the first bunches of tender, pencil-thin asparagus are on their way. Their short season (usually just six weeks) and expense lends this… Read More

Food, Uncategorized, We Are ReadingApril 13, 2015

Dinner With Jackson Pollock by Robyn Lea

By Amanda

For any arty chefs out there, this might appeal, as who knew artist Jackson Pollock was an enthusiastic cook? Dinner With Jackson Pollock is a very lovely looking, ring-bound cookery book by luxury book publishers Assouline, which specialises in one-upmanship… Read More

Home & GardenApril 10, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: The first signs of spring

By Amanda

After last weekend’s feasting I wanted to bring you a couple of light, fresh dishes that you may even be able to eat in the garden if this warm sunshine continues. There were rusty orange crabs sitting like kings on… Read More

Home & GardenApril 3, 2015

Guest food Blogger Jo Orr: Easter celebrations

By Amanda

Easter, whether you are religious or not, is a festival of Spring, a celebration of renewal: of the first fresh shoots, the sap rising and the greening of the land. I adore this season of vibrant change, when your garden… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 27, 2015

Guest food blogger Jo Orr: a seasonal spring lunch

By Amanda

The second in our series of posts from food blogger Jo Clare Orr, now excuse me but I’ve just got to dash out for some cauliflower and rhubarb…. The Spring Equinox may officially be behind us but the sky is… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 21, 2015

Weekend Woman: Mary Berry

By Amanda

It’s hardly original I know putting Mary up as our weekend woman, but seeing her on the BBC’s Red Nose Day Bake Off, how witty and funny she was, and then reading this great interview with her in the Observer… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 20, 2015

How to run a restaurant chain, by Rebecca Mascarenhas

By Amanda

I got to know my Barnes neighbour Rebecca Mascarenhas by reputation before I actually met her, because she started Sonny’s restaurant in Barnes not long after we first moved here and it became one of THE places everyone went to… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 14, 2014

Weekend Woman: Julia Forte from the London Gin Club

By Amanda

It’s World Gin Day today, hurrah! So we thought we’d put Julia Forte (born1965), founder of the London Gin Club up as one of our weekend women. Julia runs her delightful gin club from the Star At Night, a bar … Read More

Home & GardenOctober 28, 2013

We Love: Food 52

By Amanda

Last week my half of TWR was celebrating our last autumn half term ever (youngestson’s last year at school) by taking a short holiday in New York. As well as eating ourselves two sizes fatter, I got the chance to… Read More

Things We LoveApril 19, 2013

The Foodie Bugle magazine

By Amanda

Is it us or are beautifully presented niche magazines having a bit of a moment? Print is definitely in decline apparently, yet there are some lovely new magazines around, including this charming tome The Foodie Bugle, the first printed version… Read More

Middle Aged MumJanuary 21, 2013

Middleagemum.com: a word or two about diets

By Amanda

I refuse to talk about spring clothes with five inches of snow on the ground so while we are having a momentary fashion pause, I’m going to have a quick middleagemum.com rant about diets in January. Ever since time began,… Read More