...for food as well as fake tans and big white teeth, at the Essex Food Show, and if you look at the exhibitors list you will see lots of them are our friends from Suffolk.
Getting married? This would look nice on your top table
Written by Claire
From the London Ice Sculpture Festival at Canary Wharf, and there was lots of food too including jerk chicken wraps, curry, a cheese stall and huge meringues.
It might be nearly two hours from here but the food is worth it. Bobbys is a Leicester institution. The best home-made samosas - deep fried on the spot, an all you can eat buffet with no meat in sight, a Thali for one to take home which includes three types of vegetable curry, a dhal, rice, puri and pickles and actually serves two, and all this for under £20. I've been going here for twenty five years, and in the picture is Bobby himself!
...and in spite of eating and drinking non-stop, have lost weight. Must be the heat. And no cakes. So here are the pictures of the kind of thing I have been eating, in order of appearance: a mediocre fried fish from a side of the road stall in Antigua, papaya and banana from the garden with local honey and yoghurt for breakfast, my neighbours breakfast - sent over in return for a lift to church - salt fish, chop-up and fried corn bread, a soursop, mangoes and a proper delicious fried fish served with soldier crab fungi.
I want to go back...
Suffolkfoodie has gone off to Barbuda in the Caribbean for six weeks ( to visit her family) InspectorX and veggieplot have been left to man the computer. Here is the first picture that suffolkfoodie sent from Antigua. It didn't take her long to look for food!
Guess what? More free yogurt! From New Zealand via Little Melton in Norfolk and delivered to my door - as you know I never turn down free samples.
These are just how I like my yogurt, flavoured with a satisfying drizzle of mango or passion fruit coulis (or pear, blueberry and honey) They taste as good as the ones I make myself for breakfast with plain yogurt and home-made coulis. My son said 'they look nice' when he opened the fridge after school, so I can only tell you that the one I had was lovely!
...who happen to be serving champagne and beautiful tiny gateaux.
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Crepes, frites et saucissons, et j'avais mange toutes!
A lovely joint of Norfolk reared beef, carved at the chef's table in full view of the kitchen at this renowned Norfolk restaurant - the perfect place to take our Dad out for a birthday lunch - and back to the village where he grew up.
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our roast beef being carved by Richard Hughes
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excellent board of East Anglian cheeses
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watching the kitchen in action
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Lavender House is in a lovely location in Brundall
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first course of starter tasters
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Went to Savannah Jerk in London because Lenny Henry mentioned it on F Word but although it was nice can cook this as well at home. So yesterday invited a friend round for Caribbean Christmas dinner and we had ackee and salt fish, deer meat, rice and peas, banana fritters, johnny cakes and jerk chicken.
Nothing to write about in Suffolk because I haven't been out. Went to London and had lunch in Wahaca - the Mexican Market Eating restaurant of the only female Masterchef winner (so far) www.wahaca.co.uk. Lots of hot sauce, tortillas, meat and fresh salad - very quick, very nice and very cheap - with simple delicious drinks like home made lime squash. £36 for four of us. Suffolk still has a long way to go.