I love getting foodie tips from friends in the know. My husband and I took a day trip to Ironbridge, and luckily for me, @thecoffeehuntdiaries recommended The Green Wood Cafe. The Green Wood Café is just outside of Ironbridge, in the Green Wood Centre. If you’re in Ironbridge to see the famous bridge, the café …
After a few lockdown walks in Sutton Park, The Bracebridge was high on my list of restaurants that I wanted to try when hospitality reopened. The restaurant’s terrace has reopened, so I booked a table for a date night. Getting to The Bracebridge The Bracebridge is inside Sutton Park, right next to the Bracebridge Pool, …
Originally, I’d planned to share some recipes for drinks to take on picnics, now that we can sit outside in groups of six again, but then I remembered that I’m lazy and that the likelihood of me mixing drinks to take on a picnic (and not end up them with them leaking everywhere) was pretty …
Can you buy good wine at the supermarket? If you’ve got time to go to a proper wine merchant or a good off licence, you know there’s an expert on hand to help you make a good choice, but if you’re standing in the wine aisle at the supermarket, staring blankly at the bottles, you’re …
If lockdown has meant you’ve had to curb your coffee habit, you might be missing your fancy barista coffee by now. If you’re usually a fan of a flat white, a sad instant coffee with a splash of milk just isn’t going to cut it. Luckily, there are some tricks to make barista style coffee …
After almost a year at home, even reluctant cooks like me have started to venture more into the world of cooking for ourselves. And of course, if you’ve cooked something and didn’t post it on Instagram, did it ever really exist? To get the likes in, you need food plating tips for home cooks. I’ve …
I eat as a solo diner a lot; mostly because few people want to go out to eat as often as I do. Usually, I’m perfectly happy eating alone, but now and again, you get staff who treat you differently or as though you’re a nuisance. Eating as a solo diner can be great. You …
Spicy food is always a little tricky in our house. I like spicy dishes, whereas my husband has no head for heat whatsoever. I was a bit nervous about tackling the Chili Beef Noodle Soup as my next recipe in my challenge to cook all of How To Eat, in case I melted his tastebuds. …
Just before they went into lockdown, Dave and I made an impromptu visit to my favourite Welsh city, Cardiff. We actually went to look at a car, but I can never go anywhere without searching out something delicious to eat. This time, it was Bar 44. We’ve eaten at Bar 44 in Penarth several times …
