December 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Cocktails Food & Drink

Autumn Vodka Hot Tuddy Cocktail

Now that Autumn is setting in, it’s time for an Autumn Cocktail. One of the things I love about Autumn is that feeling of cosying up. Like we’re getting ready to hunker down for winter. I want things with apples and spices and pumpkins, warming things. I like to imagine that I’m going to wear

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Food & Drink Recipes

Healthy Lunch Sandwich Filling – Creamy Chicken with a Kick

Finding interesting, high protein lunches can be a big challenge if you’re trying to balance your diet. Especially if you need something that you can take with you to eat at work, and you perhaps don’t have access to a kitchen to heat things up. Recently Warburtons got in touch to introduce me to their

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Food & Drink

A Peek Inside the August Gin Explorer Box

Back in July we went to the Gin Festival in Norwich. While we were there, spurred on by a few gins, Mr Chick decided to sign up to a 3 month subscription to the Gin Explorer box. I promised to let you know what it was like when our first box arrived in mid August. Now

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Candy Floss Champagne Cocktail

This Candy Floss Champagne Cocktail barely feels worthy of a recipe. It is so cool, however, that I am going to call it a recipe and suggest you all try it immediately. I made these as pre dinner drinks about a week or so ago, to celebrate Mr Chicks last day of work. He has

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Food & Drink

Afternoon Tea with Added Gin at Sprowston Manor

This was the weekend that someone pressed the button marked “Autumn”. A week ago I was still picking my clothing based on what was least unbearable in the heat. On Saturday afternoon and evening it rained constantly, and on Sunday I woke up to Autumn. There’s still a warmth in the air, but there’s that

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Celebrating The End of an Era

Yesterday officially marked the end of an era. It was Mr Chicks last day at work. In a perfect example of the universes wonderful timing, I got invited by All Bar One Norwich to try out their new menu. This meant I could “take Mr Chick out for dinner to celebrate” as long as he wasn’t

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Food & Drink

Norwich Cocktail Week 2016

It’s that time again……. Expect me to spend a lot of time talking about Cocktails over the next 6 weeks or so, because Norwich Cocktail Week 2016 is on its way! I’m pretty fond of Cocktails. Back when I ran Vintage Norwich I used to get a lot of emails asking me to recommend places

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Food & Drink Recipes

Retro Chick Cooks: The Eggy Cheese Sandwich

I don’t do recipes often on here. Not unless they’re for Cocktails anyway. In fact, this may well be only my second recipe post in over 8 years. During Glamorous July one of my challenges was to cook someone a favourite meal. So I cooked Mr Chick one of his long time favourites, eggy cheese

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A Spicy Summer with Weight Watchers

Over the last year or so I have massively improved my diet. It’s been a really steep learning curve for me. One of the things I discovered is that eating well isn’t a one size fits all approach. It’s about finding foods and ways of eating that fit into your life and enable you to

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