Eat The Season: Apple Chutney
When you have a glut of apples, turn them into classic apple chutney
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FOOD & DRINK
Ann
- Apr 25, 2022
- 2 min
Yorkshire’s Great Food and Drink: Paradise Café
Paradise Café at Daleside Nurseries in Killinghall, Harrogate opened last month and offers a welcoming and beautiful café cum fine dining cu
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Ann
- Mar 12, 2022
- 2 min
Yorkshire's Great Food and Drink: Mackenzies Farm Shop
Yorkshires great food and drink: Mackenzies Farm Shop
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Ann
- Feb 16, 2022
- 3 min
Yorkshires Michelin Stars: 2022
Some of Yorkshire's finest chefs have been among many to be served up some brilliant news today. Today, 16th February, is undoubtably one...
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Ann
- Apr 3, 2021
- 2 min
A Scandinavian Tradition: Semlor Lenten Buns
How often during your busy workday do you take a break (besides lunch)? For Swedes, the time-honoured ritual of fika—translating to...
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Ann
- Mar 6, 2021
- 2 min
Food and Life Lately: March 2021
I’m hoping things are beginning to make us feel better with the prospect of longer and lighter days ahead. Being able to see family and...
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Ann
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Yorkshires Michelin Stars: 2021
It's really a gloomy time of year and going out to eat is not something we can do at the moment, being in the midst of Lockdown Number 3....
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Ann
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
Eat The Season: Rhubarb
January got no respect from me! I've been hating it this year. The damp, grey and eternally dark days made me so lethargic, together with...
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Ann
- Nov 17, 2019
- 4 min
Whitby: Foodie Tour
Whitby is a place for all seasons complete with dramatic, changing landscapes. It nestles in the iconic Yorkshire heritage coastline...
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Ann
- Oct 3, 2019
- 2 min
Embellish With Relish
I’m a lover…. of food, cook books, and of the place where I grew up, the Lake District. I like a proper cook book as well as downloading...
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Ann
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Tiled Hall Cafe in Leeds
The Tiled Hall Café in the Leeds Art Gallery is the perfect setting for a lunch break, morning breakfast or just a quiet space to relax....
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Ann
- Apr 27, 2019
- 1 min
Lotte the Baker in York
Loving all foodie things Scandi, I’m excited to have found Lotte the Baker in York! Lotte has started a small batch organic Scandi bakery...
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Ann
- Apr 12, 2019
- 2 min
Billy Bob's Parlour
The owners of Billy Bob’s have created a 1950’s retro Americana magic place in the Yorkshire Dales. Not quite what you expect to find...
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Ann
- Mar 17, 2019
- 2 min
Three Things I'm Loving This Week
In a week of wind, drizzly rain and Brexit doom, I’m back to tell you about the things that made me smile this week. Ballet I’m always...
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Ann
- Mar 7, 2019
- 2 min
Prashad, 'the' Vegetarian Indian Restaurant
Prashad means blessed food; the Patel’s meaning is that their love passes to you through the offerings; I’ve rarely felt so beatified,...
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Ann
- Feb 16, 2019
- 2 min
Barbakan, a Polish Restaurant in York
Walmgate, one of the oldest streets in York is an interesting jumble of buildings from different periods and now home to innovative and...
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Ann
- Oct 5, 2018
- 1 min
York - Dyls
If, like me, you like to seek out hidden gems when visiting new places, Dyls should be at the top of your to-visit list in York. This...
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Ann
- Aug 9, 2018
- 2 min
Fodder in Yorkshire
Harrogate’s handsome historical spa town has long been a draw for its antique dealers and quaint independent retailers. My favourite of...
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Ann
- Jul 3, 2018
- 3 min
Life Lately: 10 Things That Made Me Happy Recently
I’ve been so busy during June and thought about time I did one of these posts that I’ve been itching to do. June was so sunny and warm,...
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Ann
- May 3, 2018
- 2 min
The Bank Holiday Weekend Edit: things to do, wear, see and eat
Hello weekend, I’m definitely ready for you. We’ve all been gritting our teeth through all the rain recently so a bit of spring warmth is...
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Ann
- Mar 31, 2018
- 2 min
Ten Things To Do On A Rainy Easter Weekend
This Easter, the weather isn’t planning on playing ball. I have all my fingers and toes crossed that the forecast improves, but right now...
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Ann
- Dec 22, 2017
- 1 min
The Third Week of December
This was the last week of work before Christmas. How did that happen? It’s been so busy. I’ve enjoyed a pre-Christmas lunch with my work...
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Ann
- Dec 8, 2017
- 2 min
The First Week of December
Its December and here we are at the end of another week. I’m not quite sure how we got here – the days are slipping by at an alarming...
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Ann
- Nov 16, 2017
- 3 min
Three things I’m loving this week
I feel like I’m really getting into the swing of these wintery weeks, short bright sunny days and long dark evenings. It has been a...
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Ann
- Oct 31, 2017
- 2 min
Farewell October…
October has been a very different month – full of beauty and colour and the feeling that autumn is lingering on with sunny days. But also...
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Ann
- Oct 8, 2017
- 2 min
Apple Treats
Question of the month: do you prefer a sweet apple or a sharp, sour apple? It all depends on mood and individual taste I know. And then...
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Ann
- Sep 25, 2017
- 1 min
September is rushing by
Who else feels like September has just rushed by in the blink of an eye? The sun hasn’t always shone this month, but that didn’t stop us...
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Ann
- Sep 5, 2017
- 2 min
In a nutshell: August
August, well it just sort of went! It went in having my little house painted internally at the beginning of August and the finale was...
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Ann
- Aug 28, 2017
- 3 min
New York: Foodie Tour
You’re in New York for the first time ever. You’ve got 4 hours and an appetite for everything. Where do you start? Fortunately, I’d...
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Ann
- Aug 13, 2017
- 2 min
Yorkshire Dama Cheese
Yorkshire Dama Cheese is the story of inspirational bravery by a woman who refused to let her circumstances define or constrain her. It...
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Ann
- Jun 5, 2017
- 1 min
East Yorkshire: Beverley and Food Treasures
Chances are that unless you’ve either been before or are from Yorkshire, you probably haven’t heard of the town of Beverley, in East...
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Ann
- May 23, 2017
- 2 min
In a nutshell: May
I can’t believe we are nearly into June. There have been cool days and oh so hot days, but May is my fav month full of freshness and...
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Ann
- May 13, 2017
- 2 min
Tea at the Palace: Blenheim
A few weeks ago I went with my family to visit Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, and was treated to Afternoon Tea in The Orangery. There...
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Ann
- May 6, 2017
- 2 min
YO Bakehouse: Tea and Cake in Malton
I must let you into a secret. It’s about cake and tea, or cake and coffee! Where they meet hand in hand – that’s YO Bakehouse, a new...
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Ann
- Mar 29, 2017
- 3 min
Book Club: Dinner Club
A new dinner club has evolved from my local book club. We have been meeting recently, keeping off the topic of our latest book club read,...
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Ann
- Mar 20, 2017
- 2 min
Boeuf Bourguignon: Slow cooker style
It’s officially Spring! And it still feels like winter and I like having that ‘hunker down’ feeling. Yes! I go on about it a lot, but...
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Ann
- Feb 26, 2017
- 4 min
Secrets of Cadiz
Rick Stein and his recent TV series (and now a book!) ‘Rick Stein’s – Long Weekends’, has a lot to answer for, he has encouraged my get...
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Ann
- Feb 16, 2017
- 2 min
The Temperance Spirit Company
It’s permanently dry January for me, but I am always on the lookout for a sophisticated adult styled alternative when attending a social...
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Ann
- Jan 29, 2017
- 2 min
The Hare Inn, Scawton
I was wondering where to meet up with friends twixt Christmas and New Year. I suggested The Hare Inn, a 13th Century Inn in the...
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Ann
- Jan 10, 2017
- 2 min
Great Food Club has arrived in Yorkshire
So you have all been wondering what I do to fill my retirement ……. I am busier than ever…and Great Food Club is just a part! We all love...
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Ann
- Dec 14, 2016
- 2 min
Millers Fish and Chips
I do like to be beside the sea and have my ration of fish and chips, but my destiny seems to be to visit only fish restaurants as far...
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Ann
- Oct 24, 2016
- 2 min
Skosh comes to York
Skosh (noun) – from the Japanese word Sukoshi, meaning a small amount or a little The most exciting new restaurant in York, in my opinion...
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Ann
- Oct 12, 2016
- 1 min
Bircher Meusli
Bircher Muesli was a very recent discovery for me. A few weeks ago I was staying at the MGallery Hotel Continental in Zurich. It would...
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Ann
- Oct 4, 2016
- 1 min
The Little Coffee House: A bright jewel
Selby is the birthplace of King Henry I, and if he was around today he would have a very bright jewel in his cafe crown, called The...
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Ann
- Sep 6, 2016
- 2 min
Lady in the Van: The Peppered Pig
Afternoon Tea in a van called Lola! Hidden away off a country lane near Goole in the East Riding of Yorkshire is a place that has all the...
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Ann
- Aug 14, 2016
- 2 min
Haxby Bakehouse
I seriously love bread. It was a delight to recently meet Phil Clayton, who for eight years has been running York’s artisan bakery, Haxby...
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Ann
- Jul 29, 2016
- 2 min
Nutrition Joe's Harrogate
A little while ago my daughter and I decided to try a new-ish ‘urban style’ cafe in Harrogate. Nutrition Joe’s (NJ’s) opened earlier this...
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Ann
- Jul 12, 2016
- 2 min
The Alice Hawthorn: Nun Monkton
The Alice Hawthorn – Sunday lunch in an exquisite little Yorkshire village, at a pub named after a famous racehorse on the biggest...
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Ann
- Jul 5, 2016
- 2 min
The Victoria, Cattal, North Yorkshire
The Victoria sits just 400 metres off the main A59 road and only 10 metres from the platform of Cattal Station and the main railway line...
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