Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2009
Last Saturday was enjoyably spent around at G&Ds with a few other Troffers, with all contributing food and drink for the evening.
P&T put the starter on the table - oven roasted wild salmon on a bed of chili and coriander noodles,mmm. And they were spicy too.
G&D prepared a superb main course of fresh local partridge [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2009
Well, September has been a busy old time in the Dean household.
Apologies for the lack of posts, but work has dominated for us and on top of this, we’re getting ready to send Josh off to Uni, so it’s been all go (you all know what it’s like…).
I thought it would be good to pull [...]
Whilst waiting to pick Chester up from the doggy parlour(bath time) and my visit to the dentist….we had an hour to spare so we ventured into Pudsey looking for somewhere to have a quick sandwich.
Cafe Atlanta was packed but we managed to squeeze in on a corner table. After viewing the menu of baked potatoes with various filling, [...]
Posted in Pudsey, restaurants on Sep 16th, 2009
I was supposed to be visiting Diva Italiana with a couple of mates but they had to rearrange so D said it would be rude not to go. This would be our third Monday night multi course £15 menu visit. The 1st was with the Globetroffers and was great, the 2nd with the kids and was ok so we [...]
Posted in Weddings, restaurants on Sep 14th, 2009
Last Saturday we set off with great excitement to Buxton for the wedding of first Devanney (Rebecca)of her generation to get hitched. The girls(Dawn, Julia and Tess) packed wedding outfits plus extra dresses just in case……….
We arrived at the hotel at 12.05 and the church was a 15 min drive away. By the time the girls were [...]
Posted in Outdoors, food heroes, restaurants on Sep 11th, 2009
After a great weekend we awoke on Monday to find the sun cracking the flags. D suggested we make the most of the weather and have a trip out to Whitby, what a great idea! Off we set with Chester in the back of the car, quick stop at Gilchrist’s for a sausage sarnie for [...]
As you can see from the pic’s , we had a splendid night at Harewood.
Starting with a flyover by a WW2 Spitfire the crowd was suitably warmed up for the evening event. The very entertaining conductor Jae Alexander kept us amused and the English National Orchestra professionally played their socks off……Soprano, Sarah Ryan and tenor Wynne [...]
Posted in home cooking on Sep 2nd, 2009
When Phil’s away(Leeds fest) the girls will play and we did….JD, forty something invited the girls round for a BBQ..Yes, we were allowed to use the beautiful spanish design real job BBQ which was great fun but hard work(respect and many thanks Phil and Julie for past events). …after a few technical problems we managed to [...]