Local, coastal and seasonal all on one plate…
It’s not often some wild sea bass is offered my way but when it does I grab at it. There really is no comparisson between wild and farmed sea bass. Wild bass gives the cook a thick slab of delicious flesh, a single chunk of fillet rather than […]
A place to escape….
Everyone needs an escape route from something. Responsibilities may vary from the professional to the private but it’s all relative. Everyone feels pressure of some description, work, relationships, money, we all have something to deal with. Whatever the situation everyone should have a bolt hole (or two) and I, it has to […]
A lost art…..
Boiled tongue isn’t something you often see on a menu nowadays (know what you’re thinking-Rod) but someone has to do it and that brave old soul is moi!
Yes indeed, I have, as I write this, a fine specimen poaching away on the stove for the hotel owners lunch. What’s a hotel owner doing […]
As voted by me….
Please excuse the search engine grabbing headline but it’s true anyway. This comes on the back of the recent You Tube farce here in the UK and ever since the news broke I have been checking back to see if the ban has started. It would appear not, I live in eternal […]
Lakeland Sheep…
Here’s one of my current favourite photos. Taken at the top of Ghyll Head near Windermere in Cumbria this wooly fellow, wonderfully nonchalant in the face of a 100-400mm lens carried on stuffing himself with all the gusto of a football with a meat pie at half time.
These used to give me […]
The wise bugger off!!!
I was glad to see the back of 2008, the last three months were very difficult and I looked forward to a new year and a fresh start but this year has proved to be tougher still. Whilst others are struggling we, as a company continue to do well, business, whilst not […]
A walk around a water’s edge….
Last week saw bright, clear skies and sunny afternoons in the Lake District so I managed to escape from the kitchen for an hour and retrace long forgotten steps of mine back to Lake Coniston…
Best known for Donald Cambell’s ill fated attempt at breaking the water speed record in 1967 […]
Music videos still playing on You Tube…
I was under the impression that Monday just gone was the cut off for UK music videos on You Tube. I checked back on my blog and the ones I posted are still on there, I then went onto You Tube and they’re still playing them. Bizarre!!
I’m not complaining, […]
How to maximize your view….
Here’s a quick update on the refurbishment programme at one of the hotels, this is the lounge bar area where we have taken away an adjacent bedroom and created an upper floor seating area. A small, typical bedroom window overlooking the river has been replaced by a floor to ceiling […]
Readers turn to take over the blog….
I’ve really enjoyed turning the blog over to you to all to have a go, there have been some really good responses and all very different. What matters is the point of matching a photograph to a memory or just something which captured the imagination for whatever the reason.
Here’s […]