Summer party

Our traditional summer party at the beginning of the month was, I think, my favourite so far. I finally managed to get a pleasing mix of eating, hosting and taking photos. Hell, I even managed a few photos of the food – and we made the food labels that we’d always talked about too. So [...]

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CDWM II: Suzy’s dessert

Working on dessert There tend to be interludes in the Come Dine With Me evenings while the host prepares, or puts the finishing touches to the next course. This allows time for conversation and browsing the internet to share links we’ve found interesting, answer questions we’re mulling, or – more likely – look at pictures [...]

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How doth my garden grow?

It’s been pouring with rain a lot recently, which is a plus in some respects, because pumpkins love water and the vines have got going – and I enjoy not having to water my garden myself. However, we could have done with a tad more sunshine between all these showers and storms, as the opening [...]

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CDWM II: Suzy’s main course

Suzy’s main course was inspired by the meal she had at the Brooklyn Diner. She’d had enormous ordering success with a pot roast and noodle kugel (which I’m having trouble not spelling “nudel kugel”) and decided to recreate the dish for us all. The handy thing about Suzy’s house is the open window between the [...]

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NYC: Times Square

When we were compiling our list of things to do in New York Lauren advised us to – and I’m barely paraphrasing here – go and look at Times Square and then get the hell out of there. We were at the end of a long day and this was to be our last stop. [...]

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NYC: Top of the Rock

This was another piece of cunning planning on our part. We got the view from the Empire State Building on our first afternoon in New York and then planned our visit to Top of the Rock for when the sun had set and the city would be a sea of light. When you’re up the [...]

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CDWM II: Suzy’s starter

Seeing as we attended Lauren’s Come Dine With Me yesterday, it’s really time I made a start on blogging Suzy’s evening from June. No doubt I’ll still be blogging New York at Christmas and at some point I’ll have to fit in the Summer Party from the beginning of the month … hehe I don’t [...]

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NYC: Brooklyn Diner

The Brooklyn Diner was a recommendation from Lauren. At least, that’s what we thought. I’d googled for a diner that she’d mentioned near Carnegie Hall and come up with this one, but actually she’d been talking about the Carnegie Deli. So it’s really just as well that I remembered the five hour time difference and [...]

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