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OXO Tower Afternoon Tea, London – Review

I should move to London. In the long run, it would be best if I moved to London. Madness you might think bare in mind I have a great job that I love in Bristol and have wonderful friends here…

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Tequila Spherification Bubbles Recipe

After recently experiencing Taiwanese Bubble Tea, I’ve become quite interested in using different textures to create an unusual take on the dish or drink.  Spherification is the process of shaping liquid into pearls, the most common method of doing this a liquid is mixed with sodium alginate…

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Banana and Peanut Butter Loaf Recipe

Before I went off to uni to study how to be more of a food nerd, I took a gap year. I worked in an independent kitchenware shop (which I adored! Selling knives, baking gadgets and all sorts of weird and wonderful things!) to…

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Chocolate and Cherry Cupcakes Recipe

The joyous time has come around again – PUDDING CLUB!!! It’s been a while and not as regular as we had hoped when starting it but never mind when a cake is involved!  We had more eaters than bakers this…

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The Hand and Flowers, Marlow – Review

The summer solstice, an excuse to go out for a nice meal with my family. No there wasn’t any sacrificing of goats at hight alters whilst chanting around an open fire, but cocktails, dressing up, pig head and amazing food.…

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S’mores Cupcakes Recipe

As I’m not an American, who as I imagine the clichés, grew up on going to summer camps and songs around campfires, I haven’t tried an s’mores first hand. However, growing up with American TV and films, vaguely aware of…

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A Weekend of Eating Around San Sebastian, Spain – Travel

Summer holidays! Time to get away with great friends, explore an area whilst eating your way through local delights and sampling the local tipples.  And that’s exactly what I did last week, boarded a sleazy-jet plane to the sunny shores of…

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Exploring Amsterdam, Netherlands For The Weekend – Travel

Amsterdam, not most people’s first choice when it comes to a mother/daughter get away. But that’s exactly what I did. For a long weekend, after a hard week at work, me and mama FoodNerd were off on a girlie trip.…

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Homemade Gherkins Recipe

To quote a close family member, fellow blogger and amazing friend, ‘you like to make weird stuff, not the usual foodie things.’ I kind of agree but think if I did make just the usual things all the time, I wouldn’t half the Food…

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Homemade Lemon Curd Recipe

My copy of Nigella Lawson’s Domestic Goddess cookery book is wrecked. It’s not from a lack of care or love but due to being a source of great baking wisdom and recipes that work time after time. One of my…

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Homemade Nutella Chocolate Spread Recipe

Pinterest. The new social media for people aspiring to cook better, have glossier hair and to find funny pictures of cats in bread. For people who haven’t tried it out yet, it is a site that acts as a huge…

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The Cowshed, Bristol – Review

I realised the last couple of posts have been very sweet orientated and needed to rectify this. After all there  Being new to Bristol, I had to do my research and ask around my work friends and the consensus place for a…

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A Weekend in Bruges, Belgium & Chocolate Brownies Recipe

This might sound a bit big-headed but I’d like to think that I’m unique and don’t always follow the trend to some degree. But when it comes to loving chocolate, I’m a sheep.  Since a young age, chocolate was amazing! Any form…

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Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcakes Recipe

Okay, confession time. I have a lot of cookery books, okay not a lot, a hell of a lot. It’s an obsession and I need help. Hello, I’m FoodNerd and I have a cookery book problem. Especially lots of little…

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