That’s right, The Foodies Festival is back and it’s Christmas themed! If you fancy winning tickets for THE festive foodie event of the year, keep reading! The Foodies Christmas Festival The Foodies Christmas Festival will be returning to Edinburgh from 13th – 15th November 2015 at the EICC and what better way to kick start your Christmas celebrations than […]
Smoky Jalepeno Fajitas
I was recently sent a selection of sauces from Encona, the UKs number 1 best selling range of authentic hot and spicy sauces from around the world. Obviously, as a food blogger, I am expected to sing write for my supper. This poses a problem when the product I’m sent goes against how I cook and […]
Academia Obscura: What PhD Life is REALLY Like
While I moonlight as a food blogger and engage in all round sarcastic greedy chat on Twitter (catch me here), I do in fact have a real job. I’m a PhD student. Image: PhD Comics Now unless you have a PhD or you know someone who has one, I don’t expect you to understand what it […]
Classic Spag Bol
I started cooking when I was 16. I was inspired by Home Economics lessons and by watching my Gran and Mum cook. Luckily for me, my Mum was more than happy for me to take the reigns in the kitchen & prepare her dinner most nights. Don’t get me wrong, I was by no means a culinary […]
Foodies Festival 2015
Over the weekend thousands of food lovers descended on Edinburgh’s Inverleith Park to indulge the glutton within. The sun was out, there was a giant red Pimms Teapot and there was more chutney than you could shake a stick at. This was the Foodies Festival 10th Anniversary. Overview The organisers of the Foodies Festival certainly […]
31 Birthday Food Facts
Yesterday was my birthday. I’m 31 and loving it *snaps fingers*. So in lieu of a real blog post today, and because I still have a lot of champagne drinking and present opening to get on with, here’s 31 foodie facts about me. When I was a wee Weegie, when cooking with pastry, I surreptitiously ate […]
Chicken Satay Stir-fry
Mid-week cooking is a faff isn’t it? I say that and I don’t even have kids / a dog / co-habiter (tick as apply) to feed. They say living on your own is easier. You’ve got less washing up to do, less stuff lying around and you can get away without hoovering for DAYS because no […]
10 items for a grown up kitchen
Now that I have my new digs (stay tuned for the official Weegie kitchen tour) I’ve been reminiscing about the flats I’ve lived in over the years. We’re talking 12 years of Weegie living from my late teens to early thirties. This includes a 2 bed squalor flat where I lived with 3 girls & we had a […]
Win 2 tickets for the Foodies Festival in Edinburgh!
Fancy winning 2 tickets for THE Scottish foodie event of the summer? Keep reading! The Foodies Festival The Foodies Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary and returning to Edinburgh’s Inverleith Park on the 7th – 9th August 2015. For or those not familiar with the event, its a 3 day showcase of Scotland’s finest culinary […]
The Lobster Shack
Andy Murray is pelting a tennis ball in his whites and I have a hankering for Pimms, this surely means its SUMMER! I swear I feel like Buddy the Elf when he discovers “Santa” is coming to Gimbels. So what better way to celebrate the start of the British Scottish summer (we both know these are […]