REVIEW: Plateau, Brighton
“French tapas” may sound like an oxymoron as the word tapas is almost always synonomous with Spanish food, but french food served tapas style is a big part of what Plateau does, only they don’t call…
“French tapas” may sound like an oxymoron as the word tapas is almost always synonomous with Spanish food, but french food served tapas style is a big part of what Plateau does, only they don’t call…
Last Saturday was my beloved Mother’s Birthday. For those of you that don’t know me you won’t know how much I ADORE her. She is quite literally the loveliest, kindest and most generous person you’ll ever…
For my 30th (sob) Birthday my wonderful Mum gave me my heart’s desire: a KitchenAid. I felt it was only fitting that my very first conquest should be some form of baked goods for her to…
I was ridiculously excited about trying this restaurant after hearing really good things about it from people I know and seeing it massively bigged up on Trip Advisor as well. The Big Easy has been open for 15 years and models itself on the simple crabshacks…
Mr P&P loathes, and I mean LOATHES mushrooms. It’s incredibly annoying, as is his hatred for olives, dark chocolate and black pudding amongst other things. As a result of this I take the opportunity to indulge…
This week I’ve made a brilliant discovery and I wanted to share the love: Pinterest. For those of you not already in the know, Pinterest is social network type site where you can collect, organise and…
Last night whilst suffering with a massive dose of the post-Christmas blues I fancied something tasty and comforting to eat that wasn’t very labour-intensive and I’d been dying to try out this recipe for ages. This…
I’d anticipated that there would be a lot more leftovers from yesterday’s roast than there actually were. I’d planned to make a chicken and vegetable broth with dumplings, but we’d stripped every last scrap of meat…
My first blog post is actually about my first experience of cooking a Roast chicken. As a quite (I like to think) experienced cook it may seem unusual that I have never tackled such a traditional…