Although there are no boys in this photograph, I promise you they were there; one, the partner of our host, Signe Johansen, was behind the camera and the other, a friend of theirs visiting from America was (quite sensibly) staying safely out of the way. The poor guy had literally just arrived following a week ‘up north’ only to find himself suddenly sharing a tea and a scone with a room full of crazy blogging girls. Unsurprisingly, he looked quite bewildered! Read post
Name: Signe Johansen Blogging since: spring 2008 Location: Bloomsbury, London Blog url: www.signejohansen.com/ Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where to start? My parents were living in Munich when I was born, which no doubt explains my predilection for sausage and beer. Dad being Norwegian, we moved to Oslo when I was four and [...]
Earlier in the month I helped to judge The Galvin Cup mixology competition for the second year running, and once again it was a fantastic event. Mixologists, professional and amateur, from around the world competed for the coveted Galvin Cup, creating spectacular cocktails. Read post
The first blog I want to show you is Tinned Tomatoes, written by Jacqueline, the ‘Scottish Vegetarian’. Jacqueline and I have kept in touch since our early days of blogging through reading each other blogs and catching up through Facebook and the UKFBA so it gives me great pleasure to feature her blog. Name: Jacqueline [...]
James and I have had such a hard time choosing three winning entries from all the fantastic ones that came in for our tribute to Keith Floyd, the ‘Farewell Floyd’ food blogging event. We asked you to cook a classic or adapted Floyd recipe or a recipe of your own design inspired by Keith Floyd. [...]
James and I have been getting lots of brilliant entries into our ‘Farewell Floyd’ food blogging event. For my own part I decided to cook Keith’s Welsh Rarebit. It’s certainly a classier version of cheese on toast and well worth the extra effort.
