We live in a world where we are downright spoilt for choice when it comes to dinner choices. It’s as easy as rocking up to your local supermarket, browsing the chilled aisle and picking out an entire meal, including wine for a tenner. The most difficult part of the process is getting the correct oven…
PATTACAKE PATTACAKE
I get the same level of excitement as Shrove Tuesday rolls round as I do at Christmas. The thought of pancakes on this special day most definitely brings out the sweet loving child in me. I have who idea why, it’s not like I don’t have pancakes at any other time of the year, it’s…
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DOWN IN MEXICO
There is a long and tasty history which leads us up to the Old El Paso do-it-yourself kits which we know and love today. It is believed that traditional Mexican food dates back to the Mayan Indians who were rambling around Mexico over 9000 years ago feasting on corn tortillas and bean paste. The Mayans…
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MY FOODIE VALENTINE
Having literally just recovered from the anarchy of Christmas, Valentines Day has snuck up on me like a ninja. Unlike most years where I do the lastminute.com dash to the closest Tescos to grab Mrs S a card on 13 February, I’m on top of the preparation game and I’m bringing y’all along for the…
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JACK’S SHACK GUIDE TO BIOHACK
They reckon that by 2020 the UK health and fitness industry will be worth a eye watering £22.8 billion. It appears that everyone is a superstar in the making, and there is often a longer wait these days to get on that particular machine you want to use in the gym to make way for…
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VIVA LA FRANCE!
I honestly know just about as much about French food prior to doing this post than Del Boy knows about the Lingo. Very, little. I did in fact spend a brief stint in Paris in my youth. Aged 19, some hapless idiot employed me as a Security Guard. Clearly whatever I was guarding at the…
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Warning: if you watch this video you are about to be seriously earwormed. This song isn’t leaving your head for at least a week. There is in fact a very good reason I have posted the Minors of the ABC sing song for your annoyance. This is ode to my pa who sang this to…
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FOOD & MARRIAGE
It’s our wedding anniversary this week. Four years ago I stood at the top of an aisle in a converted barn in Suffolk declaring to the world that I had chosen the fellow weirdo who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
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THE RESOLUTION REVOLUTION
ALL CHILL, NO THRILL It’s 31st December and long gone are the days when I would be getting ready for an all nighter, drinking pint after pint of Guinness before making up the words to Auld Lang Syne, because no one really knows the words do they. Nope, me and the Mrs just enjoyed a…
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THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
WHAT’S FOR PUDDING? My days of paleo were short lived. I’ll give Mrs S this one happily. What with chocolate hanging around everywhere and the abundance of recipe experimentation going on in my kitchen preparing for Christmas, I’ll confess; I’ve well and truly succumbed to my sugar addiction. I don’t mind telling you that at…
