Manchester Food & Drink Blog
I’m writing this on Sunday morning. It’s quiet, just me and the cats are up and about. Tomorrow, I go back to working from home, so I’m gifting myself a Monday off. Kind of. Also, this evening (I’m trying to type ahead, and imagine it’s Monday), I have the first of my regular Instagram lives….
Suddenly, this week, we became somewhat overrun by fruit. Some deliciously ripe apricots – which are now in the freezer. Mangoes, which I brightened up my yogurt and granola no end. A pineapple that went in a marinaded pork dish, and apples. Loads of em. So… What to do with them? Crumble was an option,…
I saw a meme this morning, the one that heads this blog in fact, that made me absolutely fucking furious. How many of you shared it, found it funny? It actually made me want to cry. Then I began to rage, and as I’m writing this, I’m firmly stuck between the two. Because it hits…
I’m missing going out. I mean out out. Not necessarily on a long heavy session, but putting on something nice, throwing my face on and finding a glass of something delicious in my hand. Chatting to a bartender about what I might like, or what’s new on the menu. This weekend was a bit of…
My last Monday of furlough. Well this round anyway. Whether it will continue is anyone’s guess. Either way, next week this won’t be written fresh on the laptop on Monday morning, it’ll be more likely hurriedly be put to bed on Sunday night, before I slope off to bed, dreaming of how many emails I’ve…
Last month, when I was making the lime and elderflower cordial, there was something about the flavours that struck me as familiar. There was something about the citrus flavour that reminded me of Rose’s Lemon & Lime Marmalade. As a kid, it was my gateway to marmalade as a whole. My mum only made jam,…
I finally got my mitts on some tonic! Hurrah! OK, that’s a bit misleading. I finally got a delivery of Fever Tree Light Tonic – all my previous reviews have been using this tonic, so of course, the science geek in me needed to maintain that constant. But everything that’s arrived from the supermarket so…
Before I start this, I feel like there’s something I need to address. Like most bloggers who review food and drink, we’re all having to move things that little bit more local to where we live. It means that not everyone who reads what I write can order what I write about. And there are…
When I started these posts, I had absolutely no idea I’d still be writing them now. I thought of them as a combination of placeholder and diary. Something I could look back on in the future as some crazy time in my past. You know, a sort of ‘remember when…’. Now I kind of like…