Thoughts And Musings | A Greedy Piglet

Chablis and a Take Away Dilemma…

It is always nice to asked to join in, and I was rather pleased to be invited to join in a competition to pair Chablis with a take away meal. Chablis is a lovely easy tempered wine, so I expected it to be easy to find something interesting and tasty to match it.

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My best Facebook Suppliers of 2012 – with a Big Thank You

When I first started this blog, one of my earliest posts recommended some of my favourite food suppliers who understand social media and interacting with their customers. In the two years since then, Twitter and Facebook have become more and more essential for any business wishing to succeed. Why, even the BBC tweets these [... More ...]

Blooming Beautiful White Bread

Do you remember I started making white bread? that my husband approved of, and would actually eat in preference to the thick sliced white bread he used to insist I bought?

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A New Year Inventory

We got to chatting about store cupboards on Twitter today, that’s me, Wendy, Linda, Helen and Jules, as Jules had blogged a suggested store cupboard essential list.

I thought what would my own staples be?

And actually, what do I have in my dry goods cupboards? Time for an inventory.

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Happy New Year!

I have lots of lovely recipes for you, all saved up for the New Year….

But you will have to wait for them… for today, lift your glass, and raise a toast to 2012 !

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Newby Tea – an old favourite updated

Newby Tea Bags

I don’t drink English black tea with milk, I really hate how the milk leaves a sort of greasy film in my mouth. So I drink light, fragrant teas with no milk. Mainly White and Green teas, sometimes [... More ...]

pssssst… fancy a quick discount?? Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

Ooops! I completely forgot to tell you that Jeremy and Steven at Union Hand- Roasted Coffee have generously offered my fabulous readers* a 10% discount on your next order.

So if you fancy trying some of their extraordinary coffees, you can [... More ...]

East London Food Heroes – Forman & Field, E3

H Forman's Smoked Salmon

I love fish. Especially smoked fish. And I love salmon. So faced with a pack of smoked salmon, I am in seventh heaven. It was a real delight then to sample some of H. Forman’s London Smoked [... More ...]

East London Food Heroes – Union Hand-Roasted Coffee, E16

It is fabulous to be able to get so much good food from small, local producers these days. It wasn’t such a long time ago that in London, apart from basic foodstuffs from greengrocers, butchers, bakers, you were only able to buy goods packaged by major manufacturers. At luxury West End grocers such as [... More ...]

Eco Marmalade – an update

We had grapefruit for breakfast the other day, and I felt the need to make more marmalade. Now today I am also making Apple Crumble Pie and some lovely Apple Compote from the fabulous first book by Signe Johansen, Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking …: Scandilicious… More …]

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