Put out for Poutine

Here's two kinds of Poutine, served in Montreal. The first is from a bar that had a wall-sized hockey game on the wall. The second is from a restaurant that served bison cottage pie. While their poutine was better, the lumps of curd were big enough to trigger a nauseous reaction of "Ech. I'm chewing cow tit snot".

The twelve eats of Christmas: 12

Lamb chops, chips and a visit to the salad bar at the Old Bridge Inn, Llangennech.

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From bad to wurst

Homemade currywurst. And then the following night, the leftover sauce used up with some chicken goujons. Lush. There's a currywurst museum!

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ANIMATION!

Windermere 13: Bring me fun

A visit to Morecambe. A Bring Me Sunshine cocktail at the Midland Hotel ("Eileen Woodhouse created this heady mix of champagne, Pimms, orange juice and grenadine. So stand on one leg and enjoy the Eric Morecambe way"), then a KFC Zinger Burger meal (oops). Fianlly, back home for Philip's delicious carbonara.
Life's too short to be spent having anything but fun
We can be so content if we gather little sunbeams

Windermere 9: Something beginning with "ch"

Cheesy beans for breakfast, chips at Bowness-On-Windermere, and lovely chilli for tea, cooked up by Log and based on the Leon cookbook recipe.

Windermere 4: Load of old croque

A chip butty, a slightly grim croque monsieur and a club sandwich at the disappointing Woolpack Inn.

Windermere 1: Friday night & Saturday morning

We went away to the Lake District for a week, and stayed here. Chips for tea on the first night, then Andy made a fry-up for breakfast the following morning. Lovely.

Manchesterfood

Chicken curry and chips at the all-you-can-eat Buffet City and, the following morning, an all-you-can-eat breakfast at the Premier Inn, Portland Street.

Pa rum pum pum pum

A chicken curry with half and half for my dining companion, a steak for me at the Ashburnham Hotel in Pembrey. Slightly disappointing this time, to be honest. And for the first hour and a half that we were there, they played Johnny Cash's version of Little Drummer Boy on a loop. When we pointed this out to them, they admitted it had probably been on all day and nobody else had noticed. So a bit of a weird evening. Still, at least the arrangement of the peas and fried tomato on my white plate looked a bit festive.

Trying that bit harder

After a farewell bacon sandwich courtesy of Disappointment's gran, we left Nottingham and set off for Llanelli. It's a 220 mile trip and so we took a break at Magor Services, on the M4 near Newport. There we ate the ham rolls that we'd made for the journey and bought some chips and a pot of tea each. There's something very satisfying about chips and a roll. The services at Magor are run by First, an independent operator. It's a great service station, with a lovely cold carvery of meats and salads and a separate counter for hot food. Currently, they seem to be doing up their petrol station.

Lead us not into temptation

I was excited to see this chip shop staple in the freezer of Tesco, although it's pretty harsh to stack them next to the Weight Watchers ready meals. Also, I like the serving suggestion on the box of chips with curry sauce. It seems to be, "put them on a plate".

Eat the parents

A night out with mum and dad at the Ashburnham hotel. Thai turkey curry and half & half, chicken curry and half & half, salmon with cockles and laverbread, and a very cheesy lasagne.

Don't let the salads win

Too much Cheggers on the Love Chips website, but there's a Flickr group.

Colonel Sanders

or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Gained 7lb




A week-long jaunt around the country in a hire car. Rapid weight-gain ensued.
First stop, a lovely pot of tea and a KFC Zinger® Burger at the Welcome Break services, Newport Pagnell. (Welcome Break? You're welcome to it etc.) Then a lovely homemade quiche and potatoes and salad and things courtesy of Ma Disappointment in Nottingham. And finally, after a night on the town, a densely-cheesy pineapple and pepperoni pizza from Sneinton's finest The Food Junction. And that's quite enough for one day thank you.

A bellyful of Wales

Scones and tea cakes at Verdi's Café in Mumbles. Turkey rogan josh with half and half at the Ashburnham, Pembrey.
The following day, a picnic in the car on the seafront at Saundersfoot, then back to the Ashburnham in the evening for chicken tikka with half and half.
And finally, the day after, back on the train from Swansea to Paddington with homemade chicken sandwiches.