British Street Food Awards

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Hello Haverhill

Ladies and gentlemen and other people , this is about to become a website and so I  have been to a training course  (www.phoenixinternetconsultancy.co.uk ) in Haverhill to learn how to do it. The sandwiches and freshly made mini -quiches were so good I had to find out where they were from. Around the corner is a cafe where they do a dish of the week (madras beef curry when I went) and other lovely home-made food. Italian meatballs, mozarella and tomato sauce – all home-made, for £3.20 anyone?  

       

Bury has even more X factor now…

… because it was Matt  singing upstairs on the opening night of LP’s.

Tomato mini pizza

So many tomatoes at the moment that I have had every recipe I can think of and made soup, pasta sauce, ratatouille and lots of others.  But this was simple and delicious and used up a bit of old ciabatta at the same time. So easy I’m not going to put it in Recipes - just spread pesto (from a jar not home made) on the bread, halved cherry tomatoes and a shaving of parmesan, then grill until brown. If you teach your children this they can make it after school, and it works really well on half a muffin too, just call it mini pizza.

A foodie anniversary – Caribbean style

Suffolk foodie is one year old today. Celebrate by going to Lidl for my utter favourite  bar of dark chocolate with nuts in, and find Caribbean meat patties! Expecting them to taste awful but they are surprisingly authentic (well, they are made in Birmingham) with just the right amount of heat from scotch bonnet peppers. Although home made ones would have more filling it’s not bad for Stowmarket!

Pizza au Feu de Bois

Probably our final garden campfire of the year this weekend – and talking about the new pizza restaurant in Bury got us hungry. So we made our own dough, used up some old cheese and a few olives, smoothed down a little space in the coal and cooked our own. If you’ve got teenagers I heartily recommend this as an activity.

Carnival comin…!

And gone… See Abroad for new pictures.

Wood fired pizza has the x factor

Invited to the opening night here at the new LP club (used to be Ruin) where downstairs the wood fired oven burns continually, making the best properly thin and crispy Italian-rather-than-American pizza in minutes.  And upstairs in the bar some very good singing  – one of them has got through the first round of the X factor!

Festival food – see Abroad

Ooops, ate a bit of bacon…

Forgot I was on veggie week and had bacon and eggs for breakfast, but made up for it by making delicious pakora with spinach out of the garden for lunch. Ruth gave me her recipe – it’s so easy – but it’s on the gram flour packet too, if you can find any. I asked in Tesco just to see if they knew what it was, not expecting them to have any, and they bought me Rye flour. So went to Ipswich to the Norwich road shops where they have everything you could possibly ever want and spent too much on scotch bonnet peppers, plantain chips and frozen samosa’s as well.