tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130778122024-03-13T19:52:28.223+00:00Something Yum....Cooking adventures and lots of other yum life adventures.Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-10104768342236110592009-08-07T09:01:00.002+01:002009-08-07T09:10:38.083+01:00Something Yum!I have a gorgoeus new nephew. He's all wrinkly and looks like an old man but he is so gorgeous , gorgeous, gorgeous! Weighing a healthy 7lb and 10oz he arrived on Wednesday 5th at 10.16am by C-section (are you really supposed to be able to wiggle your feet once they've done an injection? No? Dr said that too....)Anyway, I have some great pics of me, Andrea, Craig, Mum and Dad with the little Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-52507938256319311722009-08-07T08:46:00.002+01:002009-08-07T09:01:06.506+01:00Cottonwool weatherIt's been a long time since I last posted. I've moved house (again), felt a bit sad (again), sort of moved on, eaten food, gone off food, cooked food and looked at food. All in all quite normal for a foodie. Oh and books, there have been a lot of books (Neil Perry's Balanace and Harmony is my most recent purchase).As usual my food style is reflected by my emotions. Tired and worn out calls for Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-39376747835435108612008-01-10T21:28:00.000+00:002008-01-10T23:21:15.773+00:00Happy New Year!Welcome to 2008!The end of 2007 was interesting (forever known as the year the Arts Council announced a massive cull of arts organisations - guess who's company was one of them?) and the year when hopefully, I became a bit more centred and made some resolutions like....Save some dosh (got to get that artisan deli/bakery open somehow)Eat some fishEat more vegBLOG MORE!!!...............and there isKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-55891639929536904892007-11-28T10:27:00.000+00:002007-11-28T11:02:21.250+00:00Retro TastesWell, been while hasn't it? Entirely my fault!Things have been busy, busy and not had a lot of time really (and I am tired, so veeerrry tired!), but there has been a distinct flurry of activity in the kitchen; a brief outline is below:Christmas Cakes - after the sugar flies decided they wanted a nibble in the summer, two large expensive fruitcakes were packed of to mother with the instructions 'Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-28292100318905592302007-10-05T09:38:00.000+01:002007-10-05T10:16:54.825+01:00What becomes of the broken heartedDo you remember that song? I think it was the Drifters and I used to hum along to it when I was a kid without really thinking.But what does become of them? Well, they go off cooking, don't buy cookbooks and food shopping is no longer a necessity. The hours spent trawling the aisles at deli's and supermarkets is reduced to a late night when I can be bothered.My boy has new horizons already and I'mKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-64835138269850244622007-08-17T10:29:00.000+01:002007-08-17T15:38:10.521+01:00I've been tagged - Fantastic Four!I have been tagged! My first ever - how exciting. Nick at the tracing paper popped it over to me and I have to say I feel very excited. Not only because it's a tag for a meme and I have seen many of these in the blogging world and have always wondered about them, but because a fellow blogger actually knows that I exist! Now that is exciting - people, I live and love in the blogging world.This oneKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-81499229628193108132007-07-24T19:37:00.000+01:002008-01-10T23:46:39.941+00:00Foodie Heaven - In words, pictures and food!Like the picture? It's about the only sun we had and light was perfect for showcasing this fudge.Summers here and its rain, rain, rain - a real joy! There is a vegetable shortage as nothing is being nurtured by a happy sun come to that, neither am I. So here I am watching too much TV in the evenings, surfing the web on my lovely new laptop (hurrah! Vista - Bah!) So what should I do? Oh I know, Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-30365985330961793152007-07-03T13:16:00.001+01:002007-07-03T13:31:39.067+01:00Foodie DaysSometimes there is nothing better than escaping the rat race and having a day off to enjoy baking; which is exactly what I did yesterday. I am already on a mission with my Christmas cakes (really) and only have about another three jars of pre-macerated fruit to go, which I started (huge amount of fruit glut) preparing last year (macerate when it's sweet, marinate when it's not). My tip? When Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-80711128597219090362007-06-20T16:25:00.000+01:002007-06-20T16:51:27.898+01:00Embroidery in the BowerBeing a tart in the arts (see my very early postings way back when), I joined an Arts Agency that delivers project across the rural county to all sorts of people. Some of us are inspired, some of us not, and the rest, well they can be inspiring. My lovely friend, who wears fab shoes, has fab bags and now writes fab books, is a tour de force of energy and laughs so ,is one such person. I love Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-72414650421749905562007-05-09T12:10:00.000+01:002007-05-09T12:57:39.618+01:00Good Cause, Good BooksIt's been a while since I blogged, mainly due to the fact that D and I have finally gone our seperate ways and I have moved home. It was all sad up to the leaving but a big adventure getting a new place! I don't feel that I have quite lost D as we are still good friends and are eating together and stuff a coupla times a week (Notice the food pattern?) I have settled into my new home sort of (Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-10322510390517070112007-04-16T14:50:00.000+01:002007-04-16T15:09:45.535+01:00Ich mochte einen gemischtes eis bitte.Well what a hoot. Success has been ours and my future housemate N and I have managed to find ourselves a nice little place in Norwich to rent. To celebrate I had a few of the ladies over for food and trial by food, sherry and lots of squealing for N. She joined in like a trooper and I am looking forward to having her as a housemate.Now N is German and proclaims that she cannot cook but has a Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-47864038198124685452007-04-12T11:43:00.000+01:002007-04-12T12:09:11.025+01:00I LOVE - UK Food BloggingI am always, always tring to find UK Food Blogs that are interesting and that I can snaffle recipes from, to try out in my own kitchen. Thanks to Google launching a CO-OP where you can create customised searches and a keen blogger, the joy of not having to trawl through thousands of pages has arrived! UK Food Blog Search allows you to take a peek at other peoples blogs and search for recipes. I Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-63765206274269020502007-03-09T15:20:00.000+00:002007-03-09T15:27:05.360+00:00Sunny DayHmmm, things are looking up. The last two days have been sunny and springy - a combination I rather like. D and I are getting on better than ever - as friends and I am looking in to the fast-track racy world of.......drum roll please......Mortgages!!!I still love m'boy and I am sure he still loves me, just all a bit random. We'll get there.No recipe this time, but BBC Good Food have a rather Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-79185684768834667382007-03-07T21:33:00.000+00:002007-03-08T13:48:47.157+00:00Broken Heart CurryThe last few weeks between me and the OH half not been easy. We have had trials and triblulations, sharp words, burnt food and heart to hearts.Today, we fell apart.The fab birthday party I had resulted in a bill and after a rather fantastic cookery day (bought by the OH for the big3-0) at Morston Hall, a Michelin starred restaurant here in sunny Norfolk, the bill arrived. After misunderstandings,Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-72114112225511904182007-03-05T15:00:00.000+00:002007-03-05T15:10:41.382+00:00Who Shot JR?I have no idea I was quite drunk - Dallas style.It was my big birthday party at the weekend and I dressed up as 1980'S Dallas power dresser - looking more like a rather naff R&B star. I think the most shocking thing was that people though my outrageous wig (well I thought so0 was actually my real hair...AND thought I really suited it. I give up. There was copious amounts of food, some murdering Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-6387076911831092102007-02-27T11:16:00.000+00:002007-02-27T11:21:15.078+00:00I'm 30Oh god. I'm 30 and still a random 16 year old with lord know what plans but definately, uncertain ones.I feel old. When I was a kid I used to cry on my birthday - usually because somebody had lobbed a large pass-the-parcel at me which happened to be a book, and dented my teeth.I cried yesterday too - not because of a parcel this time. Just cried, due to me and Dean. Must be getting soft and Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1171465788972031422007-02-14T14:44:00.000+00:002007-02-14T15:14:35.553+00:00Apples of Lurve - Valentines Day Part 2Has it really been a year? Is that where all the love is? In that last year?I get so excited about the big red day. Sod the trashy, cheesey and crass cards, I like effort. The OH and I try not to get caught up in it all - he doesn't like the mass commercialism and I pretend not to....This year I have a cunning plan. It's still all horrid and drizzly here with puddles rippling as people splish Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1169811799028592992007-01-26T11:28:00.000+00:002007-01-26T11:44:59.750+00:00Making me melt......I did say, didn't I, that this blog was suposed to be about food and all the excitement and adventure that goes with it?The OH and I have always cooked this Nigella recipe when we have felt meltingly tender with each other - a symbol of us together - strong, dark and yummy. The fact that my love wants to make me delicious yummy things makes me melt. I love making him this cake too (Guiness is a Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1169634352267971062007-01-24T09:51:00.000+00:002007-01-24T10:25:52.283+00:00First SnowThe first snow of the year has fallen. I awoke this norning to silent flurries of snow muffling the sound of the traffic on the road. As the cars were sooshing by I was looking out of my bedroom window nervously anticipating the journey to work. I am sure if I had not had those few misfortunate events early in my driving career, that I would be approaching the journey less with trepidation and Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1168200630815266622007-01-07T19:50:00.000+00:002007-01-07T20:10:30.826+00:00Happy New YearWow! Happy New Year. Dean and I are back from out travels to warmer climates and aside from some general peskiness (friends, bugs, bombs, a crashed bus and general jetlag) all went really well!Since I last wrote, the garden bloomed, the neighbours cat's poo'd in it, the veg were nice (minus the cat's gifts) and all was jolly well. I am still a cookbook-aholic with large volumes cluttering large Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1158008741720877352006-09-11T21:55:00.000+01:002006-09-11T22:05:41.733+01:00....and autumn fallsToday was a warm, lovely day reminiscent of the summer that we strated to have that degraded into rain in mid-August. During that month instead of feeling sun kissed, golden and in love with the earth, I felt anxious about my tomatoes (since gone mouldy) and a bit harrassed and windswept (mainly due to work). However, I am currently roaring down the A47 with the windows open each morning and Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1152215528816206302006-07-06T20:42:00.000+01:002006-07-06T20:52:08.816+01:00It's a bugs lifeWell the courgette plant slowly crept up behind it's neighbouring bed fellows and grew over night. In the last few weeks it has overtaken most of the veg bed (now a courgette bed) and is producing flowere left right and centre. Great - so what is the ideal length to pick them? My book says 10 - 13cm, but that seems very small - should they not be a bit bigger? Is it just fashion speaking?A keen Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1152214927764950752006-07-06T20:36:00.000+01:002006-07-06T20:42:07.780+01:00First BlushWow. My first tomato popped of the vine last night. It was a mottled red with an orange tinge, and where it had been on the vine, a slight green knobble. It was small and perfectly round. It wasn't the deep, luscious red of tomatoes in supermarkets (no doubt fiddled with) but, it was just right. Deeply satisfied and excited that no doubt there will be a glut (please, please don't let the sun andKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1150626822801528842006-06-18T11:25:00.000+01:002006-06-18T11:33:42.813+01:00Summer DaysAh absolute bliss. I'd had a rather stressful day at the office on Friday and had called the OH requesting a much needed visit to the pub for that night - I needed a lot of beer, sun and the hum of sunny days conversation.However, what a surprise! The boyfriend calls me back and says, let's go for a picnic by thr river - we know a great little spot.So, when we were home from work that evening we Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13077812.post-1150405788323399522006-06-15T21:57:00.000+01:002006-06-16T09:18:30.060+01:00England Wins!.....well I did in the kitchen; and England won against Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup tonight - very boring so I rummaged up a meal for my mate Andrew and I.Fab chicken with cherry sauce - non too tart, I was a bit worried. Basically it goes like this:Pan fry two chicken breast (I did 4) they should be dipped in seasoned flour first.Then remove from the pan and add Dijon mustard or Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15453664149076646094noreply@blogger.com0