Homemade Fakeaways – Stir Fried Pork in Black Bean Sauce for Chinese New Year

With Chinese New Year today, what better opportunity to come up with a tasty new homemade takeaway recipe! Chinese cooking isn’t something I’ve ventured much into, but it’s always been The Boyfriend’s favourite takeaway and I was given a Ken Hom cookbook for Christmas a couple of years ago which I’ve used it to learn…

Taste of Christmas

On a cold and windy Friday evening, just before December, the Christmas season was approaching and I could be found rushing down to Tobacco Dock for an evening of festive foodie delights. I’ve not been to Taste of Christmas before, although I have been to Tobacco Dock for Feast before, so I was excited to…

Feast Goes East

At long last it seems like summer might have finally arrived! Last weekend the sun put his hat on and came to pay us Londoners a visit reminding us what it felt like to be hot after months and months of cold miserable rainy grey weather. It was the perfect weekend for Feast to make…

Foodies Festival, Hampton Court

It was bank holiday Monday and a rare glorious British summer’s day. As a birthday treat for my Mum, my sister and I were treating her and my Dad to a day out at the Foodies Festival on Hampton Court Green. Given the weather on the days leading up to the bank holiday I was…

Feast London

When I first heard about Feast, I knew this was an event I really couldn’t miss. For four days Feast took over London’s historic and spectacular Tobacco Dock and filled it with the stalls from some of London’s finest restaurants and street food vendors. So on a miserable and rainy Thursday evening in March my…