Category: Food and Drink
My Guide to Spring in the Garden
Happy spring everybody! So, it’s finally March, which gives us all hope that spring is on the horizon, the start of longer, sunnier and warmer days. As the days get warmer and the sun pokes out more often, we all tend to spend more time […]
Love is in the Air
Ah it’s that time of year again, where restaurants charge an extra £20 on a set menu, the card shops turn red and all my coupled friends post soppy Instagram stories. I’m single for 14 February, and this hasn’t been the best year for dating […]
It’s Veganuary!
Hi everyone! Happy New Year, hope you had lovely holidays with your friends and family! It’s January again, and I guess we could say the second name for the first month of the year is… Veganuary! For those of you that don’t know what Veganuary […]
Baking Edition: Brigadeirinhos
Hey everyone! Welcome back to a new post and I hope you all had a wonderful week! As the term comes to an end, the holiday season is just around the corner, and therefore I would like to introduce you all to a delicious dessert […]
Sustainable Christmas ideas
Hey everyone, can’t believe it’s December already! Another year has flown by and it’s that time of the year when we are getting ready for the festive season. So, while all of you are preparing the Christmas decorations, I thought I would give you some ideas […]
Birthday on Lockdown
Hey everyone! Hope all of you have had a great week so far! This weekend is kind of big for me since it’s my 21st birthday and I was hoping I’d have somewhere to go in Birmingham, but unfortunately everything interesting is closed. 🙁 Therefore I’ll […]
December
Well this week has been exhausting! I turned 22, handed in my first assignment this year, lockdown ended and advent started. It’s been manic. Tier 3 doesn’t offer us much more opportunity than in lockdown, but I’m glad to be able to get back to […]
Fanny Cradock: Britain’s First Celebrity Chef
Celebrity chefs surround us in the UK. Their faces appear on books, on the side of bus stops, on product ranges in supermarkets, their names lit up in bright lights on their chain restaurants. While now the TV chef is a completely innocuous part of […]
Why this lockdown is better than the last… (hopefully)
In March, all of our lives suddenly got turned upside down. My life previously revolved around me studying with my friends at uni, going to gigs at the weekends, rock climbing in the evenings and visiting my family in town across the UK. Then suddenly […]
Food poverty in the UK – sharing our ‘deprecipes’
In the last couple of weeks, the issue of child hunger has been at the centre of the British media. The decision by the government not to continue free school meals over the holidays despite the campaigns led by Marcus Rashford has caused a huge […]