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Where I’ve Been Eating

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Ma Bakers Cafe, Prees - A Mundane Breakfast Full Of Happiness

My hunt for great fry ups continues. This time its Ma Bakers Cafe in Prees, Shropshire. A fairly mundane breakfast packed with happy nostalgic memories and a great example of where great food isn’t just about great flavour!

Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered

Chapters, a Michelin Green Star restaurant in Hay On Wye. Delicate, delicious and considered. A produce led meal, packed with sustainability, great flavours and a beautifully delicate and elegant touch. Highly recommended!

Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner

A meal with such consideration for the diner. Memorable, inspirational, aspirational and seriously delicious. I can’t remember the last time I ate so well, where on the surface there was so little, yet absolutely nothing was missing. My perfect meal at Rochelle Canteen

Love Letters

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My Wife’s Schnitzel: A Love Letter

My Wife’s Schnitzel - juicy, tender, rich and delicious when its smothered in brown butter…..

This is a love letter about my favourite meal cooked by my favourite person.

My Mum’s 1970’s ‘British’ Sweet Curry

This is comfort, this is happiness. A nostalgic flavour of my childhood that means the world to me. It would be on the shortlist for my death row meal. My love for this dish is eternal. It’s my Mum’s British 70s style Curry!

My Great Shrewsbury Chinese Restaurant Adventure

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Bamboo House, New Park Road

Bamboo House’s turn on this merry-go-round of mediocre Chinese food in Shrewsbury!

Wok King, Sundorne Ave

Long Live The Wok King? Or Is It Time For A Sundorne Bastille Day?

Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road

How Does Lee Sing or the New Lee Sing Hold Up Compared To The Rest……..

Seasonal & Surplus

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Seasonal & Surplus - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Swede!

This months Seasonal & Surplus is Swede!

Kitchen Hacks

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Seasonal & Surplus - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Swede!

This months Seasonal & Surplus is Swede!

Christmas Dinner - Top Tips & Prep Lists - Chef Style

Christmas Dinner can be a really daunting task - here is my faultless prep list, chef style, to get you in front and organised for the big day!

Green Tomatoes - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Them

5 ideas on how to use up those delicious Green Tomatoes!

Kitchen Insights

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The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour!

How circumstance is the greatest ingredient of all! Explained through the means of a Continental Breakfast!

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The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads

The Community Kitchen is a project about food in mouths and smiles on faces. This was a lunch cooked by 4 Sudanese young people using Surplus Food to help celebrate food from their home. An education on so many levels and a properly delicious eye-opening experience for any cook!