A Little Bit About Myself

Culinary Travels with a blogger who loves to cook and bake recipes from home & abroad; with a desire for eating local, seasonal, well sourced, ethical ingredients.

I have always had an interest in food; partly due to a few baking sessions with my mum (although I have to admit most were shop bought cake mixes), and an extremely enthusiastic Home Economics teacher. My Home Ec teacher had the reputation of being a dragon but beneath the hard exterior lay a soft centre, (a bit like a walnut whip if I equate her to food), a woman who provided you show some respect to ‘her’ subject would be willing to teach you all she knew and believe me she knew a great deal.

When I was 20 I had How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking and How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (by Nigella Lawson) bought for me and from then on I just couldn’t do enough in the kitchen, for that I owe Nigella a lot. She has been inspirational.

Now I have a collection of around 200 recipe books and the collection is ever growing, my cupboards are bursting with ingredients and I just love to spend my free time pottering round the kitchen with a notepad and pen making little notes, adapting recipes and cooking.

I love food shopping, be it in real or virtual shops. It could in fact be argued very successfully that I have a dreadful ‘Amazon‘ habit.

I’m also in the process of writing my first cookery book. If you like the idea of being a recipe tester, please do contact me; as I’m searching for people around the globe to test out some of my recipes for this (hopefully) forthcoming book.  To have a look at the recipes involved, take a look here.

Now that you’ve got to know me a little better why don’t you take yourselves off for a little wander around my site, I do hope you enjoy what you find. If you happen to see any content that you perhaps would like to feature on your own website, I kindly ask that you please contact me and ask my permission beforehand. Thank you