Where to try it:You will find black pudding all over the UK. However, if you want to try it, I would recommend ordering the restaurant-quality version. Many cafes and hotel breakfasts serve lower quality black pudding that doesn’t give you a true idea of how tasty this dish can be!
hotel restaurant Town House at the Kensington has a Christmas Day menu with festive options spanning shallot tarte tatin, turkey with all the trimmings, horseradish-crusted beef fillet, lime parfait, mulled wine poached pears, Christmas pudding, and Bûche de Noël served with chocolate...
There’s no bar so we were straight to our table for aperitif cocktails; I can recommend the Blood Orange Negroni (£8) and the Women’s Washed Espresso Martini (£7.75) though we didn’t get to the bottom of its name. Over dinner we had carafes of red, white, and rosé wine ...
You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been actively writing here for some time. I’m taking a bit of a break from updating this site at the moment. I’m keeping busy with a number of other projects, both personal and professional, but I do hope to start blogging here again in the...
The tray of food and drinks had come over from the pantry of the White House at the direction of the President. Robert E. Sherwood poured himself a whisky and soda; Harry Hopkins helped himself to a cup of black coffee and a sandwich; I took a bottle of Coke and two sandwiches. I ...
“On the night of December 15th, the three of us met a small man in Moose Jaw in a large fur coat. He stopped us as we came out of a café and in a Yorkshire accent asked us if anyone came from the land of the White Rose. I told him I was born in Sheffield. That was good...
Find a pumpkin.A critical first step. Pumpkins must be the hollow kind – beware pumpkin-shaped squash that are solid all the way through. If you get one of those, the best you can do is draw a face on them (trust me, I’ve tried to hollow them out and cut them, it 100% does...