Tag Archives: food

Monmouthshire: the foodie’s paradise (via monmouthshirecc)

A bit of a reblog. But it’s about food and where a live. Two things I love. So there. In anticipation of this weekend’s Abergavenny Food Festival and to celebrate some of the local businesses that make Monmouthshire so great for food and drink, here’s a video celebrating Monmouthshire’s food heroes. Local food blogger Bill [...]

Restaurant/hotel review: “The Drawing Room”, Powys

We stayed here recently and I though it might be worth sharing our experiences. More a restaurant with rooms or a boutique hotel, the owners of The Drawing Room set very high standards of presentation, decor, comfort and cooking, without being stuffy or overly formal. If you are staying in the area and can afford [...]

Recipe: My favourite comfort food: Chicken Liver Risotto

This is a meal I make when I need comfort food. It’s not an authentic Italian-style risotto as it uses Basmati rice and the aim is not to produce the creamy nursery food dish that is the mark of a real risotto. So if that bothers you, call it “Rice and Chicken Livers”. If you [...]

A Boudin Noir

I have bought a boudin noir from the Trealy Farm stall at the Monmouth Farmers’ market. Now what do I do with it?

Headless Chicken

Watching The River Cottage Treatment on TV this week reminded me of a memorable episode in my early childhood in the Caribbean. The programme concerned the attempts by Hugh Fearnley Eatitall (as he is known in our household) to persuade a group of people who had hitherto only eaten cheap, intensively reared chicken to commit [...]

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