On the Broads at Flinders

Stopped for a bite to eat at lunchtime on Friday, you have to duck your head to get in this quaint tea room on the edge of Suffolk at Oulton Broad. Home made cakes are their speciality and their ginger and carrot cakes were especially good, but we had ordered a cheese and tomato quiche before we saw the board with home-made sausage and onion pie or pea and ham soup on it .  You will need to be friendly with your neighbours as these tables are close together but when your coke comes on a saucer with a doily you know you are in the right place and the whole meal with a pot of tea was only  £10!

Marmalade

Everyone around me is making marmalade but I have never liked it, so here are some pictures - you’ll have to find your own recipes.

Oh dear…

                                                                                  

My friend Rebekah kept her wedding cake top layer in her loft for four years and went to look at it the other day for the first time.

She says ‘Oh well, it went the same way as the marriage…’

Top ten food apps of 2010

1. Tesco Groceries

2. Ocado

3. Waitrose

4.  Jamies 20 Minute Meals

5.  iBBQ

6. Nigella Quick Collection

7. Good Food Quick Recipes

8. Gordon Ramsey Cook With Me

9. Levi Roots – Sunshine Food

10. MasterChef Academy UK

Jamie’s 20 Minute Meals offers a mix of video and recipes and has been described by the Observer as ‘the Daddy of all food apps’,  but iBBQ by itself is  worth getting an iphone for.

Got flu ? Reach for the Green Chartreuse…

Don’t risk the overcrowded surgery, try this secret remedy. A measure of green chartreuse well diluted with hot water and sipped over half an hour. Recommended to me by my sister who was advised by the qualified practitioners at Peatlings in Bury. The French liqueur has been made by Carthusian monks since the 1700′s and contains 132 different herbs, but don’t bother looking for it in a supermarket, go to the wine doctor.

Popping up all over Suffolk

Hooray! Another pop up restaurant to go to and just in time for my birthday. At the Queens Head in Brandeston with David Williams (Alimentum) cooking and only for  two days. Book on their website  www.thetrufflepig.co.uk and see you there.

Celebrity Palmers

Went to buy myself a prawn and salad roll for lunch in Stowmarket Palmers and saw that  the Good Food channel are continuing their love affair with Suffolk and will be featuring Palmers and their Suffolk Cob Loaf on the Market Garden Big Adventure programme on Thursday.

The Face of Suffolk

We don’t mind if the Cradle of Filth are the face of Suffolk instead of a beach hut or a racehorse, as long as he grows his own veg.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2010. That’s about 8 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 108 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 127 posts. There were 191 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 141mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 5th with 76 views. The most popular post that day was Whoopie Pies and Macaroons….

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were localfoodadvisor.com, blogger.com, alphainventions.com, aroundbritainwithapaunch.blogspot.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for suffolk foodie, bullis plums, suffolkfoodie, suffolk foodie wordpress, and suffolkfoodie.wordpress.com.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Whoopie Pies and Macaroons… May 2010
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2

About suffolkfoodie September 2009
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3

Things we love – the recipes June 2010
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4

Food we don’t like June 2010

5

Jam is easy! July 2010

Happy New Year

Bought myself some new chickens to celebrate.