The FoodCycle Breadline Challenge Day One
In this fundraising blog series, I will attempt the FoodCycle Breadline Challenge: living off less than £2.10 each day for food and drink while raising awareness of UK food poverty.
In this fundraising blog series, I will attempt the FoodCycle Breadline Challenge: living off less than £2.10 each day for food and drink while raising awareness of UK food poverty.
This coming week from the 24th-30th of November 2014 I am taking the FoodCycle Breadline Challenge. This challenge, designed to raise awareness of food poverty in the UK and help raise vital funds for the Food Cycle food hubs, asks us to live off of only £2-10 per day (per person) for food and drink. Although …
A vegan post workout protein smoothie. Dear Reader, I have a confession to make. I’ve become fat. I’d always been one of those skinny people. When I left high school I weighed just over 7 stone. I was very active: swimming, cycling, skateboarding, horseback riding, climbing (and falling out of) trees in the summer, skiiing, …
Celebrating Shetland food. Cookbooks are a dime a dozen these days. As a food blogger I get sent cookbook after cookbook for review. Many get a cursory look through, a quick write up and then get banished to the bookshelf to rarely see the light of day again. Some I may make a recipe or …
Food poverty: “the inability to afford, or to have access to, food to make up a healthy diet.” In 2013 The Welfare Reform Act introduced a series of radical changes to the UK welfare system. Its aims were to ensure that ‘works pays’ and to save on public spending but the reality of the situation is …
A tavola non si invecchia – Italian proverb. (At the table one does not age) Food is definitely one of the finest pleasures in life. It is in my life, anyway, ever since I began cooking for myself when I left home and I embarked on a wonderful culinary journey. Would you believe, as a child, I …
Shop Local is a food blogging challenge designed to showcase produce local to where ever you live and to share the recipes you’ve made using this local produce. This last month we’ve had sixteen gorgeous entries from all over the world including Australia, America, the UK and India. A great big thank you to all …
Remember, remember the 5th of November. I may lament about the scaled down UK Halloween and lack of trick or treaters (we only had two this year – they left with loads of sweeties) compared to my rural Canadian upbringing, but do you know what? Bonfire night totally makes up for it. I hadn’t even …
We’ve reached the end of the Alphabet Photography Project by Charly over at PODcast. What a hoot it’s been! I’ve really enjoyed sharing photos and stories which otherwise might never had been expressed and I’ve loved visiting a whole host of new-to-me blogs and commenting on their photos too. You guys are awesome! A big …
It’s been an incredibly busy week. I’ve had quite a few freelance deadlines to meet and I’ve been feeling rather uninspired when it came to last week’s Alphabet Photo Challenge hosted by Charly over at PODcast. It was the letter Y. Yellow? Yell (my photo was nearly the photo of the haunted Wind House on …
For a leisurely late morning breakfast. Nothing beats a leisurely late morning breakfast when you’ve got all the time in the world to enjoy it. Good coffee, home bakes, quality preserves and a cheeky glass of… Prosecco?! This is what my husband and I indulged in the other day.
Eat one… if you dare! I love Halloween. I mean, I seriously love Halloween. Unfortunately, Halloween in Shetland isn’t nearly on the same scale as the Halloween of my rural Canadian childhood, where houses would be decorated up inside and out (with some teenage twerp invariably blowing up our carefully carved jack o’lanterns with fire crackers). …
χάρτης khartēs – Greek for map I love maps, especially old maps. There’s something romantic and adventurous about them, not to mention the fact some of them can be beautiful works of art, like the one pictured above. Several years (2011 to be precise) ago I had a notion to make an old fashioned rag rug …
Before I started receiving a weekly organic vegetable box the only beetroot I’d ever really tried was the pickled variety from the supermarket. Occasionally I would pick up a pack of boiled, ready to eat, shrink-wrapped beetroot to make the chocolate beetroot cake recipe from the Green & Black’s Chocolate Recipes book (2003). It made a …
Local is a subjective term. Where ever you happen to live would definitely be considered local, but how wide this local circumference extends depends on your geography. I live on a remote island in the middle of the North Sea, 80 miles from tip to tip and 35 miles wide. I consider everything in this …
Common periwinkles: aka winkles, buckies, willicks or wilks Last week I went on a grand foodie adventure around my island home, following The Shetland Food Trail and researching articles for the 60 North magazine and the Taste of Shetland website which I am a regular contributor to. I spent the weekdays traveling on my own …
I am a meat eater and I am not afraid to admit it. The media is filled with horror stories of animals being loaded, terrified and ill-treated, onto trucks and hurried through the abattoir process to meet targets. Animals are dying in crates before even making their destination, and lets not even begin to talk …
Making home cooking simple since 1971. In America in 1970, someone came up with a clever idea to cook beans: a glazed brown crock liner was encased in a white steel pot and topped with an aluminium lid to make a simple bean cooker. A little redesigning and in January 1971 the Crock-Pot slow cooker hit …
It took me a very long time to appreciate the awesomeness that is the humble avocado. I wasn’t introduced to the fruit until I was well into my twenties, I am sure, and my first response to it, served on its own, was blergh! I persevered though, and I began my love affair with the avocado …
Core Kitchen is an American kitchenware company dedicated to bringing high quality, affordable time-saving tools, gadgets, knives, cutting boards, and accessories to your kitchen, along with a lively splash of colour. Their products are made from a wide variety of materials: organic bamboo, glass, nylon, silicone, stainless steel, polypropylene and cast iron. Their colourful and fun …