BBC1: OMG! I did something for the first time in my life tonight…I made a Chinese ‘ish’ meal (I say ‘ish’ because I have mingled several recipes and cannot vouch for their Chinese authenticity…nor would I be so bold, on my first attempt, to make that claim!) For those who have been following the blog, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2013
A Dog’s Birthday Cake and Party…
Hello again people! BBC1 here. You may have seen our ‘Happy Birthday’ post on Saturday, where we wished Dr Who and our Max and his brother Teddy a very happy birthday. We also promised some photos and the recipe for the dogs’ cake, both of which follow. We had a marvelous afternoon with our chief … Continue reading
Banana, Nutella & Coconut Tart
Hi folks, BBC2 here, thanks for looking in on our blog! Before I get down to the tart I feel the need to respond to comments made by BBC1 on his recent post – Easy Peasy Tomato Soup – with regards my OCD. Firstly, I would like it known that I have not had a … Continue reading
Happy Birthday!
Oh yes we are unashamedly ‘Whovians’! And we are very excited to watch the anniversary special tonight… In the meantime, we are going to visit our friend Liz for lunch. She was due to visit us today, but her car broke down on Thursday and her garage were too busy to get the car fixed … Continue reading
Easy Peasy Tomato Soup
Easy Peasy Tomato Soup Hello kind reader, BBC1 here! This soup has it’s origins and roots firmly in my past. When I was a lad my mum used to make the most wonderful and tasty beef and tomato gravy for steak, mash and peas. A few years back I kinda of replicated this for bangers … Continue reading
To advertise or not to advertise…aye there’s the rub…among other questions…
Hello fellow foodies and bloggers! We wanted to get some ideas and feed back from you on a number of issues, in order to help form the next steps for our blog. The first question we have is, should we allow advertising on the blog? We realise that there are pros and cons to this, … Continue reading
Chief Taster Becomes Sous Chef…
Chief Taster Becomes Sous Chef… When our buddy Liz arrived on Friday she said she’d been in the kitchen cooking up a ‘batch’. She then proceeded to produce a cake tin. We looked at each other and thought ooh lovely a cake! I wondered whether it was her deliciously moist coconut cake or one of … Continue reading
Chicken and Vegetable Hotpot
Chicken and Vegetable Hotpot Hello to all of you, I hope you are well and keeping warm. BBC2 here, by the way, and going back to last weekend (the one where our dog Max got first place for looking like me) our friend Liz and Teddy had come for a sleepover and I cooked this … Continue reading
Chocolate Roulade (Gluten Free)
Chocolate Roulade (Gluten Free) Hi folks BBC2 here, I hope you had a good weekend as we did, but I don’t think I need to tell you that, if you read BBC1’s post “Our Max is Winner…so is BBC2 I Suppose…”Max won the best dog that looks like their owner, so I look like a … Continue reading
Blog of the Year Award 2013
The wonderful Food Day Dreaming – Food Day Dreaming – has nominated us for the Blog of the Year Award 2013. It is so nice to get recognition from other bloggers, it makes you feel part of ‘the blogging family or community.’ We are passing this award along as it gives us the opportunity to … Continue reading
Our Max is a Winner…so is BBC2, I suppose…
Hello folks, BBC1 here! We had a lovely morning yesterday at the beach with our friend Liz and her dog Teddy, who both came for a ‘sleepover’ on Friday evening – recipes to follow, including a gluten free recipe for Lizzie’s lovely niece, and our friend Tracey. Who nagged and asked for one…so much like … Continue reading
Puff Pastry Pizzas
Puff Pastry Pizzas Hi everyone BBC2 here! Thanks for looking in on our blog. We do look forward to any and all feedback on our recipes, good, bad or just constructive comments. Anyway back to these puff pastry pizzas, I was driving back from taking Max, our dog, for a run on the beach on … Continue reading
Humble, humble, humble – but incredibly thrilled!
Liebster Award We are very happy and grateful to have been nominated for the Liebster Award by the wonderful Charisma at Charismatic Baking. She says that baking is her future and just by looking at her site you know that this is gonna happen! Just go and take a peek, as long as you don’t … Continue reading
Jessica Hall’s Cuban Seasoned Chicken With Rice
Jessica Hall’s Cuban Seasoned Chicken With Rice Hi folks, thanks for dropping by. Once again we have Facebook to thank for this totally scrummy and delicious recipe. Our niece who lives in the USA started an “I Love to Cook” page and we came across this recipe there and asked Jessica if we could reproduce … Continue reading
Minestrone Soup
Minestrone Soup Hi folks I hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend on this ‘hump’ Wednesday. Not sure we say it often enough, but I’d like to thank you for visiting our blog. BBC2 here, and before I get down to the minestrone soup, I feel the need to have a … Continue reading