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Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:02

TOWIE...

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mark-wright...for food as well as fake tans and big white teeth, at the Essex Food Show, and if you look at the exhibitors list you will see lots of them are our friends from Suffolk. 

From the London Ice Sculpture Festival at Canary Wharf, and there was lots of food too including jerk chicken wraps, curry, a cheese stall and huge meringues.

Monday, 24 October 2011 12:56

Going to see Bobby in Leicester

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It might be nearly two hours from here but the food is worth it. Bobbys is a Leicester institution. The best home-made samosas - deep fried on the spot, an all you can eat buffet with no meat in sight, a Thali for one to take home which includes three types of vegetable curry, a dhal, rice, puri and pickles and actually serves two, and all this for under £20. I've been going here for twenty five years, and in the picture is Bobby himself!

Saturday, 27 August 2011 10:49

I'm back...

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...and in spite of eating and drinking non-stop, have lost weight. Must be the heat. And no cakes. So here are the pictures of the kind of thing I have been eating, in order of appearance: a mediocre fried fish from a side of the road stall in Antigua, papaya and banana from the garden with local honey and yoghurt for breakfast, my neighbours breakfast - sent over in return for a lift to church - salt fish, chop-up and fried corn bread, a soursop, mangoes and a proper delicious fried fish served with soldier crab fungi.

I want to go back... 

Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:55

suffolkfoodie goes to Antigua

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Suffolkfoodie has gone off to Barbuda in the Caribbean for six weeks ( to visit her family) InspectorX and veggieplot have been left to man the computer.  Here is the first picture that suffolkfoodie sent from Antigua.  It didn't take her long to look for food!

Wednesday, 15 June 2011 13:34

Yogurts from Down Under

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Guess what? More free yogurt! From New Zealand via Little Melton in Norfolk and delivered to my door - as you know I never turn down free samples.

These are just how I like my yogurt, flavoured with a satisfying drizzle of mango or passion fruit coulis (or pear, blueberry and honey) They taste as good as the ones I make myself for breakfast with plain yogurt and home-made coulis. My son said 'they look nice' when he opened the fridge after school, so I can only tell you that the one I had was lovely!

As diners, we walked to different tables across the fine grounds of Elsing, sampling food from gastronomic magicians Bompas and Parr, ably assisted by City College Norwich students. I ate Mock Turtle Soup (with a “perfumed quail’s egg”), a “Drink Me” Quinine and Bitter Orange Constitutional, After the Caterpillar (a field mushroom pate) and The Unmeatened Leek (a layered pie).
We ate outside, under the stars, entertained by Alice in Wonderlands of all sizes. Our final destination, which we reached after a lantern parade, was a fairytale floating platform twinkling with lights and in front of Elsing Hall itself.
Breathtakingly beautiful, we dined on delicate delights such as The Jellateena, violet and elderflower jelly, and The Cake Array, a trio of Frank Dale cakes in miniature, washed down with mint and dandelion tea, while watching an incredible musical performance from the cast which culminated in my favourite song of the night from two of the six Alice in Wonderlands.
 
From the Eastern Daily Press review of Dining with Alice  on tonight and tomorrow at the Norfolk and Norwich festival just over the border. Can we have one in Suffolk please?
Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:39

And the Christian Dior museum down the road...

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...who happen to be serving champagne and beautiful tiny gateaux.

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