Christmas Toasties

Christmas Toasties

We have spent the last two weeks testing Christmas toasties, attaching clips to the van and buying rope lights. When Christmas comes we intend to be ready for it. If there is any funny business I’ll be making a playlist as well, and it will have the Pogues. It...
The Banoffee Toastie

The Banoffee Toastie

Truly, all things have a master. In the Halls and Shrines of the Great British Toastie, that master is surely the Banoffee Toastie. I shall introduce you, and then we shall talk some more. For the Banoffee Toastie you will need: 2 slices of fresh bread per person some...

American Style Blueberry Pancakes

Last Tuesday was pancake day, and Barny was once again scheduled to be on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, this time talking about pancakes. He had decided to go for broke and make his all time favourite ones, tried and tested over several long summers in America and...

Vegetarians Have Feelings Too

I am, I should probably admit up front, a card carrying omnivore. I take pleasure from all sorts of dishes, regardless of what they were made of, but generally speaking, for the purposes of meal creation, it starts with meat. This is why I’m not the one who does...

Foraging for Jam

On Monday, largely because the weather did not appear to be getting any better, we decided to make the most of grey skies over Leamington and go foraging. Within the foraging community there is an unwritten code of secrecy regarding foraging spots; what with the web...