A special bulletin: bigmonster launches ourgodalming.com
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 7, 2012 · 7 Comments
I interrupt today’s usual weekend broadcast with an extra special bulletin… Today is my town’s annual food fair – the Godalming Food Festival 2012. Today is also the launch of my husband’s new community-based online channel. He came up with the idea of creating a local, online video channel when he realised there wasn’t really … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, British, Country life, england, English · Tagged with British, country life, England, Godalming, Godalming Food Fair
It’s curry time! Curry puff puffs, curry filo puffs and curry cups
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 17, 2012 · 12 Comments
Curry in a hurry If there’s one type of food that the Brits have truly taken to their hearts and made their own, it is the curry. It’s Britain’s favourite take-away and I daresay the number of Indian restaurants could rival the number of pubs in the UK quite easily. Anyone know if that might … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Baking, British, Chicken, chillies, Cool stuff, Country life, cumin, Curry, Dinner, Edamame, Eggs, English, Features, Flour, Garlic, Godalming, Indian, Ingredients, Lemon, London, Lunch, Mangoes, Noodles, onion, Potatoes, Recipes, shallots, Singapore, Sour, Southern Indian, Spicy, Spinach, Stories, vegetables · Tagged with Boiled egg, Curry, Curry noodles, Curry puff, Filo pastry, Godalming, Gordon Ramsay, Indian cuisine, Noodles, Pastie, Pasty, Puff pastry
Red spaghetti… and a grumpy old woman’s take on the rest of my Chelsea Flower Show 2012 piccies
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 3, 2012 · 6 Comments
Part food post, part flower show As I’d already posted some of the food-oriented images from our trip to the Chelsea Flower Show, I originally set out to focus this post on a staple recipe that has sustained both my husband and I during these last few turbulent weeks. The idea was that I would … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Basil, British, Cars, Cherry tomatoes, Cool stuff, Country life, Dinner, English, Features, Garden, Garlic, Italian, onion, oregano, Pasta, Recipes, shallots, Stories, Tomatoes, vegetables, Vegetarian, Vinegar · Tagged with Chelsea Flower Show, English garden, Godalming, Italian, Olive oil, Pasta, Queen, Royal Horticultural Society
Pub review: The Lamb, Buckland, Oxfordshire
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 18, 2012 · 23 Comments
Puppy love My husband and I set off this morning to see a couple of bitches in Oxfordshire. You heard me, I said bitches! But before you think this is some story about handbags at dawn between me and some other women, don’t worry because the bitches I’m referring to are furry and of the … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Almonds, Beef, Bread, British, Butter, chocolate, Cool stuff, Country life, English, Features, Lunch, Stories · Tagged with Buckland House, Faringdon, Godalming, Kingston Bagpuize, Lamb at Buckland, Oxfordshire, Public house, Valentine's Day
A lime and ponzu dressed salmon carpaccio
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 13, 2012 · 27 Comments
Valentine’s Day – celebrate it because you want to and not because the calendar tells you to… Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which I and many others I know cynically call Hallmark Day. I personally don’t believe that we need a special day to celebrate love when we should be celebrating it every moment of every … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Chives, Country life, Dressing, Fish, Godalming, Japanese, Limes, London, Recipes, salad, salmon, seafood, Stories, watercress, Winter · Tagged with carpaccio, Ceviche, Godalming, Holiday, Japanese, Limes, London, Ponzu, Public relations, salmon, Sesame, Singapore, Valentine, Valentine Day
The Big Freeze is back! A stroll through my own backyard winter wonderland
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 9, 2012 · 26 Comments
No recipe today I’m afraid… in fact, I’ve not cooked all week but I’ll be back with some recipes soon enough. Meantime, do you fancy a virtual walk with me through my town in our little corner of England? Last weekend, our town was only lightly dusted with snow so our planned walk turned out … Continue reading →
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Filed under Adventures, Country life, Godalming, Stories · Tagged with Christmas, England, Farncombe, Godalming, Recreation, Snow, Snowball fight, Winter Wonderland
The Godalming Food Festival 2011
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 2, 2011 · 1 Comment
The 2011 Godalming Food Festival With the sun blazing in a cloudless blue sky, it couldn’t have been a nicer day for the Godalming Food Festival. It only took 2 minutes on the free Hoppa bus to get from thebigfatnoodle’s HQ to Godalming’s Town Centre. Although it was only10.15amin the morning, the stalls lining the … Continue reading →
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Filed under Alcohol, Stories · Tagged with Balsamic vinegar, Cooking, Farmers' market, Food, Godalming