We are two British guys who live in Lincolnshire, UK with our dog Max, who is a 5 year old cockerpoo. We both enjoy cooking for family, friends and the dog! We are both relatively new to blogging, starting this blog 4 years ago as a joint hobby. We want to develop this over time as we learn. As you can see we are slow learners! Please feel free to comment and leave advice and tips…
We decided the best way to identify us was British Bloke Cooking1 and British Bloke Cooking2, if you know UK TV you will understand this ‘pun’. Anyway, as I do most of the copy/writing and the hard slog, lol, I’m gonna be BBC1! The other bloke is gonna be BBC2…and the good thing about this is, that his fav’ tv prog’ of all time is “The Great British Bake Off”, which started life on BBC2…hopefully, with some prodding, he’ll enter next year!
We have been amazed by the “traffic” and the generosity of bloggers in general. We’re humbled and encouraged by the response so far…please carry on telling us if its wrong or doesn’t work for you. We do that all the time to each other, because we believe that honest and constructive critique helps us to grow. Thank you so much for visiting our little site and spending your valuable time here.
We are really enjoying our blogging hobby and are grateful for so much positive feedback. Readers and bloggers you are amazing, thank you! If you would like to set us a challenge or fancy a new recipe, please feel free to leave a note in the comments section…not promising anything other than good old home cooking, but we will give it a go! Once again many thanks for visiting, you are always welcome!
Four years ago, when we started this blog, we were living in Cornwall. Not far from ten lovely beaches. We were getting about 200 hits a month back then, we’re now getting about 2000 and our most popular recipe by far is our Old Fashioned Bread Pudding. We realise this is nothing compared to others in the blogosphere, but we’re very happy that two non professional cooks and writers are even getting that many. We are amazed at the diversity of people visiting. For example, here is a list of Countries People Have Viewed The Blog: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Ireland, South Africa, Philippines, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany, Malta, France, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Spain, Hong Kong, Brazil, Russian Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Austria, Swaziland, Netherlands, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Israel, Greece, Morocco, Serbia, Chile.
We can only say thank you to those of you who do visit and big hugs to those of you who come back!
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British Blokes Cooking 
Thanks for the follow.
I, too, am a British bloke who cooks. I also like Cornwall.
Small world, isn’t it…. 😉
Lol! We moved from Cornwall at the end of last year and now renovating a place in Lincolnshire before we move in. Must update our about page!
Again, small world!
I’ve just moved back to Sweden after a 2 year stint in Lincolnshire… 🙂
Indeed it sure is😃
I just found your blog and I love it!! You have such great recipes and I can’t wait to try some of them out 🙂 My blog is currently featuring European recipes, so I will definitely be returning to yours for some British inspiration!
Thank you. We really appreciate it and will be checking you out too!
But my reader says your blog doesn’t exist?
Love the blog Fred 😉
Thank you Sabbie! Really appreciate it!
Hello BBC….I nominated you for the award of excellence…:) Check this out!
http://kitchensmitten.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/nominated-for-the-award-of-excellence/
Thank you so much, we really do appreciate this and will get round to doing a post as soon as we can! Once again thank you…
hey you two, thanks for stopping by our blog. we highly appreciate it. keep up the delicious posts!
We think you doing a great job! Thanks, and look forward to your future posts. Happy 2014!
Dear BBC1 and BBC2, I’ve just nominated you for both the Inner Peace Award and WordPress Family Award. Have a look at my post http://americanfoodieabroad.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/gifts-i-mean-awards/
Thank you so much and congratulations on your awards. We are a bit ‘backed-up’ with posts at the moment, but will do this as soon as possible. Once again thank you! ☺️😊😄😀😃
You are very welcome! Keep those posts coming. I really enjoy reading them!
I’ve nominated you for Blog of the Year 2013. Here are the details:
1. Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2013’ Award.
2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there are no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ the blog(s) with their award.
3 Let the blog(s) that you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the instructions with them – (please don’t alter the instructions or the badges!)
4 Come over and say hello to the originator of the ‘Blog of the Year 2013’ Award via this link – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/blog-awards-2/blog-of-the-year-2013-award/
5 You can now also join the ‘Blog of the Year’ Award Facebook page – click the link here https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear/ and share your blog posts with an even wider audience.
6 And as a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog
Jane @ http://jas2jar.wordpress.com
Thank-you so much! We really appreciate it. We’re a bit back logged at the moment so hope to get round to doing a post over the weekend or early next week. Once again, thank-you is very kind.
It’s good to have a new family!
Congratulations! You have been awarded the “WordPress Family” Award. Participation is optional, but if you’d like to participate, here’s the link: http://thenotsocreativecook.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/wordpress-family-award-2/
No pressure at all… 🙂 Hope you’re having a great day!
xx Jhuls
Thank-you so much! We really appreciate it and will do the post as soon as we can. We’re a bit backlogged at the moment, but shoul catch up over the weekend. Once again, thank you very much. Ah bless you!
You’re welcome. I am also a bit busy, so it took a while for me to pass this award. Have a lovely day! 😉
You too!
Great blog! Makes me smile!
Thank-you! As we said, loving yours too!
Thanks for following my blog, and I’m looking forward to following your blog as well!
Thank-you! And welcome to our little corner of the blogosphere😄 we think we can learn from each other hopefully!
I have been interested in British cooking since I saw my first episode of “Are You Being Served?” many years ago. I really enjoy the names for some of your dishes!
We do have an odd way of naming food and a great love of the ‘double entendre’!
Delighted to have found you BBC1 & BBC2, radio 4 is sending a bit of Cornwall beaches envy your way.
We are grateful to have found you too…the beaches are open to anyone, so come on down!
Definitely next time, thankfully not so far from Somerset.
Well we’ve plenty of room and would be great to swap recipes or use each other as guinea pigs!
Oh wow, thank you so much. We might take you up on this.
I love your blog and I am passing along the Blog of the Year 2013 Award to you. As usual, participation is optional. If interested, please visit this link: http://fooddaydreaming.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/awards/
Thank you! We are really pleased. It’s so nice to get recognition from your peers. Especially when their own blog is as fantastic as yours!
Hi there! I’ve nominated you guys for a Leibster award: http://charismaticbaking.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/and-the-nominees-are/
I’ve nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. Award recipients post the One Lovely Blog Award icon on their blog, mention the blog that nominated them, share seven fun or interesting facts about themselves and nominate five other blogs for the award. I hope you “do” awards and you don’t mind me mentioning your wonderful blog in one of my posts.
Thank you so much for this we really appreciate it. We will do a post asap. Once again many thanks we just have to work out how to do links!
I can’t wait! Rice pudding is the ultimate comfort food from my childhood. Looking forward to your veggie recipes, too as I don’t eat meat.
Do you take requests? My Welsh mother used to make the best rice pudding in the world. Rice pudding is one of those polarizing dishes–people either love it or loathe it. As you can guess, I’m in the love it category. I hope you are, too. My mom’s was baked and she used canned condensed milk. I never bothered learning how to make it, and of course she didn’t use a recipe. I’m hoping one or both of the Two British Blokes know how to make a classic rice pudding. Nanette
Love the idea of requests it’s challenging and interesting as well as being friendly! We’ve had a chat and both of our mums made it too. So we’re going to get the ingredients tomorrow and make it over the weekend, we’ll post as soon as we can and let you how it turns out! Is second request we’ve had today. I was speaking to an old school friend whose young daughter has ‘gone vegetarian’ and she wants us to post some veggie recipes…it’s going to be a kitchen weekend!