As you know, we love to try out new restaurants around where we live. We came across this restaurant some time ago and the feedback from friends was that it wasn’t very good. The B & B, Kirkby House has been in business for a long time, and there was not a restaurant in the …
Hmm, you might think that this is a left-over recipe featuring left-over Chicken. Well, you are right and wrong. I decided to make some pasta using pesto. So I have some left-over pesto. I only used about 1/3 of the small jar of the pesto, so I have excess. Since it was quite sunny and …
Well, due to the excess vegetables from the ‘vegetable pagoda’ on the East Midlands Inspirational Day, I had with me a head of cauliflower, some tomatoes, onions and some other vegetable. So I have to come up with some ideas to use them all as soon as possible. However, I had a lot of food left in the fridge. So …
We had our East Midlands HQ Inspiration Day on 30th April in Kinoulton Village Hall. The theme was UNITY-ENCOURAGE, EMPOWER AND ENJOY. It was a day of stress and enjoyment. What I mean is that there were some stress trying to get everything ready and perfect. That was MY stress, anyway. I was asked …
I have been zoodling for many months now. I have tried quite a few types of vegetables like carrot, zucchini, cucumber, sweet potatoes, etc. Zoodles here means no points noodles. The points here refers to Weight-Watchers smart points. This means that eating this vegetable noodles does not add to your daily points allowance. I …
This is a quick easy breakfast for a lazy person. This one has very little washing up and there is not need to fry or bake. Just use the microwave. It is cheap, easy and low in smart points. If you are watching your weight or a Weight-watcher, or a member of Slimming …
28th Jan 2021 Update. I have made a video on how to make the pickles to the Yee Sang. Click the link to watch. Yee Sang is a dish that I believe was invented by Overseas Chinese. I had not heard about it when I was a kid. I only learnt about it …
Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner Well, most of my friends would have posted on their Facebook accounts all that had taken place. As for me, I am so busy with a lot of matters on hand. Our reunion dinner was a simple one. We had Duck!! which is my favourite but not often made. We …
My Almost Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies. Well, as promised, this is my chocolate chip cookies. I have tried many times and it turns out great. If you are allergic to nuts, then you can omit them. I used up all my left-over nuts from my various recipes. It turned out just as nice. For your …
Are you suffering from left-over hang 0ver? Well, I was, after Christmas!! I find it boring to eat too much left-overs, or too much of the same thing in consecutive days. We had turkey for Christmas and all the stuffing and trimmings. I did not prepare it, my other half did and all were shop …
The weather is getting to be a bit weird. Last few weeks there were flooding in a lot of places in England and Scotland. The Midlands where I live did not have it too bad, although Lancashire was hit. It is winter now and the temperature hardly dipped below 1oC! In fact for the past …
This is the 2nd year we that we are performing the Christmas concert. It was held at the Lutterworth Youth Theater. This time my No. 2 daughter went with me. Many family members of our choir attended. There were at least 70 people there. We sang 14 songs and lots of Christmas carols at the …
The Shard After Borough Market, we walked towards the embankment and we went to The Shard, one of the newer iconic buildings of London. However, it began to drizzle. We went for the tour anyway as we will not be coming this way until many months later. The ticket costs £30.95 each ( adult). …
Over the weekend, we went to London. We went on Friday afternoon and returned home on Sunday afternoon, so there was not much time. We planned to visit a university open day. On Saturday, we went to Borough Market to look around. I had been there before and it was the first time for my …
A savoury dish cleverly disguised as a cup cake.
