Manchester Food & Drink Blog
Everyone’s been making cinnamon buns, me included. They’re soft, sweet, sticky and addictive. If, of course, you like cinnamon. One of my closest friends hates it. I mean really hates it. So much so that on a trip to Paris, she even learned the French word for cinnamon so that she could make sure that none…
Wow. How is it June already? Season of strawberries, G&Ts in the sunshine and normally for me, a sweltering office. The downside to working with scientists is that labs use equipment, equipment often kicks off heat and an old 1960s building has no air conditioning. Instead of course, we’re at home in a 1960s non…
Almost everyone is getting their bake on in lockdown. Banana bread, cinnamon buns, loaves. But finding flour, yeast and sugar has been a bit of a challenge. Robert’s Bakery has the answer. Along with being able to buy bundles of their loaves and buns for delivery, they’ve also got a bit of an all in…
I know, I’m posting this late. After the shitshow that was that totally pointless press conference yesterday… I don’t think I need to say anymore, other than I had better excuses for handing in my year nine homework late, when the truth was I had been too busy hanging out with my mates at the…
I’m starting to gather a collection of face masks. Sure, we know they’re not true PPE. But they are reassuring in a supermarket where the bloke near the tins of tomatoes really doesn’t have any idea of what 6 feet looks like. Or where the kiddie with her parents still runs off to look at…
Those of you who’ve followed me for a while will know that I’ve got the foraging bug. I’d say it started a couple of years ago, but truthfully, we’ve done it as a family for years, picking elderberries, blackberries from hedgerows, even the odd apple or two. But perhaps my favourite, because for me it…
Yes, I’ve succumbed to that lockdown favourite, banana bread. Through a supermarket order and a veg box, we ended up with more bananas than we could eat. I mean we tried, but we were fast reaching the point of banana overdose. So the last couple sat in the kitchen, getting browner and browner, until I…
Monday again – how did that happen? The first week on furlough seems to have gone really fast. Maybe it’s going to be like the school summer holidays. You finished school and the summer lay ahead of your filled with promise. Then you spent a bit of time with your mates, and drinking cider on…
It’s been a while since I’ve written about Batch spirits. Not because they’re not still producing delicious spirits, because they are, even in the current COVID mess that is. It was more because time ran away with me, and then this happened, and then I was loaded down with work and adapting to the new…