Thewwfoodie

Whenever D goes away for the night, you can almost guarantee that my supper will consist of one of two things. Either pizza or filled pasta (tossed in butter, cheese and black pepper of course). Cooking for one person, even when that person is myself, has never been of particular interest to me which is daft really. But I am a bear of very simple brain and all I want, when I am ...

As you may have gathered from my last post, our trip to Naples was an absolute foodie delight.
It's a very...frenetic city, and I wasn't sure when we first arrived how much I would actually like it. The taxi drive from the airport, for example, was somewhat terrifying. Actually, every time we got in a taxi it was frankly terrifying. The narrow streets are teeming with peopl...

My last meal on Earth could well be a pizza.
I hope that my tastes have changed - developed, evolved - from my teenage years. But still, really, when it boils down to anything I generally want to eat pizza. I want a base that is just the right balance of crispy and yielding, I want a sharp hit of tomato sauce, I want a gorgeous pull of cheese and then, of course, a topping....

I do like finding great local restaurants. The only problem is that I have a tendency of fixating on certain places or dishes and then favouring the known and loved over the new. Case in point - currently, every time D suggests a quick lunch / supper in town I immediately start craving the spicy beef noodles from Northern Market. We were supposed to have those this week actually...

After reporting back on a slightly disappointing dinner at Solstice, I thought I should redress the balance - and the pride of the North East - by talking about a couple of AMAZING meals we had this summer. I've been meaning to write this post for a while, and, indeed, several iterations have sat in my Drafts but I just kept forgetting to get them finished off. As such, it has b...