tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70500067642775772362024-03-13T11:58:52.124+00:00With knife and fork....a blog mostly about foodgoodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-65787430532573784902009-08-11T21:38:00.007+01:002009-08-21T07:54:21.641+01:00I've Moved....This is just a quick post to say that I've moved my blog to my own domain. Please come and check it out at:www.withknifeandfork.comAll the posts that are here on blogger are there too but all new posts will be on the new domain. The most recent post is on the #BPRSummit on Monday 10 August where UK food bloggers and PR's met to discuss how they might forge better relationships. Read it hereHope goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-13627963360170278192009-07-27T09:02:00.011+01:002009-07-27T09:29:22.791+01:00Feeling flowery in veggie heavenLast week I took part in Dan of Food Urchin’s dinner blogging challenge (called ‘Where’s my pork chop?’). Basically I cooked him some dinner and in return I got, well these:There loads of potatoes, beans and courgettes hiding under the kaleI’m going to be blogging what I cooked for Dan in a separate post so check back for that in the next few days. Here I want to tell you some of what I’ve done goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-70408770601679957692009-07-24T10:53:00.016+01:002009-07-24T11:45:23.646+01:00Boxed inAbout a month ago I was contacted by the PR firm for Abel & Cole asking if I’d like to try one of their veg boxes for free, well in exchange for doing a review of it on my blog, after all nothing is truly free; although I figured they’d have a hard time trying to enforce the contract if I just scoffed the food then did nothing.Legal matters aside there was, of course, the issue of whether to goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-74409675409245955002009-07-12T17:36:00.041+01:002009-07-16T11:44:15.395+01:00An unexpected glut of cherry plumsOf what? Of cherry plums. What are they then?The simple answer is they are plums that look like cherries and the trees can be found planted in many a street and garden mostly across the southern half of the country.But you want to know more than that don’t you? Well then if you are sitting comfortably I shall begin.© Danielle Harlow - Fotolia.comWe’ve lived in our house for nearly 12 years and goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-10450322143759309682009-06-24T09:37:00.010+01:002009-06-24T09:55:25.412+01:00Tasting notes: Suffolk cheesesEarly in May I took up the #livelocal challenge. I learnt lots in the first week some of which I’ve already blogged about. A big part of taking up the challenge was not just to do it for a week but try to think more about what I ate, where it came from and so explore food options closer to home. And so to one of my favourite foods – CHEESE.England has a great history of cheese making, we came a goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-56337373373758005362009-06-16T10:30:00.007+01:002009-06-16T11:12:25.628+01:00Can I cook Chile Verde?Tomatillos (anytime)And can Karen cook asparagus tart? Asparagus spears (early evening)It’s a kind of recipes at dawn this, Chile Verde vs. asparagus tart, one blogger pitched against another. Masterchef without the cameras, or the publicity, or the random commentary, or the…….well almost any of it. Just a bit of fun.You might remember back in early May I was ‘adopted’ by Karen over at ‘Karen goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-68806522483887021512009-06-10T09:12:00.006+01:002009-06-10T09:23:53.238+01:00Back of the fridge pastaYesterday when I was catching up with posts on a few of my favourite blogs I spotted a pasta blogging event that Mangocheeks at Allotment2Kitchen was taking part in. So I followed the links and ended up at Presto Pasta Nights, which this week (PPN #117) is hosted by Katie at Thyme for Cooking. The concept is that you blog about a pasta dish (well anything that has pasta or noodles in actually) goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-65040068610380641112009-06-09T09:15:00.004+01:002009-08-06T22:02:10.047+01:00A walk on the wild side“Here, turn right here, this has got to be it”.We swerve round the corner and bounce along the driveway. “Nice pond, but where’s the big house?” There’s plenty of rolling parkland and a cluster of outbuildings but no grand house to be seen.There’s also a tall affable looking chap wearing wellies and a big chunky jumper so we slow up and roll down the window. “Here for the food foraging?” he says,goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-8793331419433330422009-06-07T11:21:00.017+01:002009-06-07T22:54:19.743+01:00Feeding time at the sourdough zooA little while back I set a sourdough starter running. The first ten days to two weeks you are just supposed to leave the mix of flour water and grapes to get on with doing its own thing although the urge to peek, tweet and blog about progress got the better of me. In the process I experienced the joys of seeing the starter come to life and also its unique and pungent smell!After 10 days it was goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-71733099609774658402009-05-31T18:52:00.014+01:002009-05-31T19:16:16.644+01:00Easy peasy BBQ baby chickenAhhhhhh its barbecue time of year and barbecue kind of weather: smell the grilling food, hear the chink of glasses, the laughter, the fun, the delicate aroma of firelighters, the burnt food, the lobster tinged neighbours. England, the summer.But it's be a shame not to join in with at least some of this, right? Correct.Here's the easy chicken (well poussin actually) we did last night:2 poussin goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-57483900309510113852009-05-30T17:45:00.010+01:002009-05-30T19:31:26.078+01:00Anyone for English wine?This week it’s been English Wine Week, as you might imagine an event set up to encourage greater recognition (and consumption) of the wines produced in old Blighty. Its fair to say that even five years ago most people would have choked on their glass of Sauvignon at the prospect of a wide range of drinkable English wines being available, but even though many still might, they should perhaps thinkgoodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-46857684050506144812009-05-27T21:08:00.009+01:002009-05-27T21:27:35.385+01:00Coming togetherI love it when things just seem to come together in the right way and its one of the things that I'm starting to love about blogging and tweeting. You swirl around the blogosphere, you play about on Twitter and suddenly a whole bunch of influences collide to make you spot a new dish that resonates for you or triggers fond memories of something you haven't had in simply too long.And so it was goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-959729968310054712009-05-24T19:27:00.005+01:002009-05-24T19:34:15.665+01:00#livelocal: the first four daysSince Wednesday I’ve been trying to live a more local existence on the food front. The challenge I set myself had 4 parts to it and centred on using up things I already had in the store cupboards, buying local produce, thinking about the provenance of what I ate and trying not to nip to the supermarket in the car unnecessarily.So how have I been getting on?Well I’ve not even been taking a goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-79217039723692387162009-05-20T18:15:00.013+01:002009-05-20T18:46:08.480+01:00I’ve been adopted!By Karen, and she’s in Harve, Montana! Go on, go check the map like I had to.Now lets get a few things straight here I don’t mean I’ve been orphaned all this time and finally found someone to adopt me at the fine old age of, well lets just leave my age out of this shall we…. I mean that as a relative ‘newbie’ to the world of food blogging I’m taking part in Kirsten’s (over at Dine and Dish) goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-67246084712863011842009-05-20T08:33:00.006+01:002009-05-20T08:45:20.481+01:00#LiveLocalErr, hello, um, what’s all this #livelocal thing??? I’d seen a bit of twittering about this (hence the # tag – used in twitter to make searching easier) and wondered what it was so I headed over to Becca’s blog to find out more. Here I saw that Becca was about to spend the next 7 days (she's started today I think) trying to only eat foods that had been grown with 100 mile radius of where she goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-5136168504445140952009-05-17T17:02:00.015+01:002009-05-17T17:32:40.707+01:00Celebrating: Norwegian styleThey’ve got a lot to be happy about in Norway today.Firstly its national day when they celebrate their declaration as an independent nation in 1814 with parades, parties, flag waving and plenty of food. And to add to the festive atmosphere their Eurovision entry, Alexander Ryback, stormed to victory last night with the highest ever score recorded and over 150 points clear of his nearest rival. goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-45231856917981304152009-05-16T15:15:00.014+01:002009-05-16T15:53:08.581+01:00Eating Eurovision: Part 2 Russia - bring on the blini…..They say you should breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper. And today I am trying pretty hard….I’ve breakfasted like King Harald V of Norway on brown cheese and flatbrød and now I’m about to lunch like a Tsar (or Roman Abramovich) on blini and vodka. Its all good stuff and in aid of Eating Eurovision (a rather mad project thought up by journalist and food blogger Andrewgoodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-54775999550895060432009-05-16T11:38:00.017+01:002009-05-16T12:15:57.710+01:00Eating Eurovision: Norwegian for breakfastWhat did you have for breakfast today? Cereal? Toast? Fry up? Nothing?Whatever you had I know it can’t have been as interesting as my breakfast was. Why’s that? Well I was Eating Eurovision and you, unless you are one of the other very mad food bloggers taking part in this caper (each with our own country to sample), you weren’t. Today for you was probably just a normal day with a normal goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-40780756786615682532009-05-14T15:05:00.014+01:002009-05-14T15:58:44.788+01:00National British Sandwich WeekApparently, according to Jonathan (aka @Browners) who writes a Sandwichist slot, its National British Sandwich Week this week. Right. Yes. You already knew that didn't you?Anyway Mr Browners is fed up with pre-packed sandwiches and I'm fed-up with look-a-like Pret's all over the place. Pret was good once (honestly) back in the days when it was just starting and only had a few stores, it was a goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-74896991110731101292009-05-14T08:30:00.001+01:002009-05-14T08:40:20.265+01:00Making chocolate: an experimentA few weeks back Julia at 'A Slice of Cherry Pie' was offering 5 Mayan Magic Chocolate kits to food bloggers who promised to blog the experience. Sounded like fun and as I love chocolate I rushed in and bagged one. It arrived a few days later but it sat untouched for a while - I was busy and wanted to do it justice and also blog as much of each step as I could.....so here is what you get and do:1goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-5813105104122962152009-05-10T17:15:00.008+01:002009-05-10T18:05:19.521+01:00In season: more asparagusA few weeks ago I treated myself to a 'Tarte Maison' tin from John Lewis. Its a lovely thing, 3 times as long as its wide and calling out to have something pretty made in it. Initially I'd intended to make a rhubarb tart that I'd seen Jonathan (aka @Browners), over at 'Around Britain with a Paunch' mention on Twitter. I've not got to the rhubarb tart yet - mainly because we don't eat that many goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-86133197534558508832009-05-06T09:15:00.021+01:002009-05-13T17:34:09.824+01:00Under the bonnet: Sourdough progressOn Sunday Monday I finally decided to make a sourdough starter. It takes FOUR weeks of patient waiting and 'feeding' before you get to make a loaf.Blimey.I'm not a patient person so each time I pass I have to try very hard to resist taking a peek to see what's happening under the lid. Sometimes I just manage to leave it alone others I succumb. So I thought I'd share these peeks with you so you goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-59272183576844553792009-05-04T19:01:00.016+01:002009-05-04T19:38:33.484+01:00For starters: thats sourdough startersI love sourdough bread in all its varieties and I've always quite fancied making it myself. Looking around some of my favourite food blogs recently I saw that sourdough is of those things people are trying out - maybe its the credit crunch that makes us all want to bake bread, I don't know, but it certainly seems to be on the rise (!).A bit of looking about, a bit of tweeting and it seemed that goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-69863381271450561152009-04-30T19:28:00.007+01:002009-04-30T19:46:38.758+01:00Under the clock, with the flowersYesterday I had an assignation at Liverpool Street Station in London with a man I'd never met before called Dan (at least that what he said his name was). We agreed to meet at 11.30 BST.He said I'd recognise him by the flowers and the gentle aroma of garlic. How he was going to identify me we didn't establish. Gave me plenty of get out but not him.Fortunately there aren't that many people just goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050006764277577236.post-80010498029807832812009-04-27T19:53:00.006+01:002009-04-27T20:00:26.459+01:00In season: asparagus, part 1The asparagus season has been going for a week or so now and so far I’ve only had one tasting just over a week ago and none since. It was great but once only is not good enough, there are only 6-8 weeks of the season, I refuse to buy asparagus out of season and I love the stuff so I really need to get focussed – I mean I’d eat it everyday if I could! So today, despite the heavy rain and blustery goodshoedayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05936131540190046671noreply@blogger.com5