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What a birthday! – 100+ followers, Romanians, photography, food and a recipe

Having had an enforced break not only from posting but also from reading the blogs of those I follow, it’s been a real struggle to catch up. There were more than 500 email notifications of new posts...

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Real Romanian food in Leeds and another shop, hot as chilli, opens

Two interesting ‘new’ shops for foodies in Leeds, one selling Romanian food and ingredients, the other ‘hot’ chilli products. Kaiser, Toba, Bors, Buillon and ‘real’ cornmeal (malai) from the Romanian...

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New business ‘Extraordinary Writing’ launched; grant for village project...

Busy times: having ‘retired’ from my part-time job at the end of October, I launched my new business Extraordinary Writing on Small Business Saturday, 6 December. More on this below. More ‘spare time’...

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Carp (crap) for New Year (Revelion); Yorkshire stout top so far in...

Christmas shopping in Leeds yesterday; it’s a great city to shop in. I find shopping on line no fun at all. Carp for New Year (Revelion) A handsome 1.5kg carp bought in Leeds Kirkgate market for New...

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New Writers Club – I’m in! Fancy a ‘Romanian’ hamburger?

I’m writing this in Germany, using the WordPress app on an iPad mini for the first time, so anything could happen. However, a great week began a week ago last Saturday (2 May): I discovered a new...

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Welcome/Bine ai venit 2017

Happy New Year to you all! La Mulți Ani tuturori!

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Six good reasons I welcome 2017

Romanians in general are quite superstitious; Petronela is no exception and with that in mind the number 17 has become pretty significant for us. So, she assures me that the coming year will be good...

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Romanian hamburger – biftek haché à la Lyonnaise with a twist

‘Romanian hamburger’ with baked potato and asparagus, before ‘saucing’ Recently I haven’t posted much about cooking, once a mainstay of this blog. Resisting the temptation to comment on recent horrific...

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OMG, real food, Romanian food!

I’ve been waiting for the Romanian scenery for a year. I’ve been waiting for the Romanian people and their hospitality for a year.  But, OMG, I was waiting for the food! Of course we cook Romanian at...

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Eating crap in Romania is excellent! New WordPress app editor is not.

We’re not likely to do much today as it will be so hot but this evening we will meet up with the former ‘county inspector of history’ who had and has a high regard for Petronela as a teacher and has...

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Brought back from Romania – food, drink and a ‘souvenir’

Țoiuri and flaska I’ve almost never bought ‘souvenirs of’ places I visited, either for myself or as gifts for others, but I’m quite pleased with something I brought back from Romania this time. I...

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A littles barbecue birthday day

Another lovely autumn day. We have been lucky as one day is really awful, another beautiful, and they seem to be falling just right. Today was our friend Janet’s birthday and she planned a barbecue....

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Tea overlooking the Brontë sisters’ beloved moors, steam trains and borș...

Halloween borsch? With witches’ noses I abandoned Keighley library yesterday, visiting my friend Lou who lives with her family in a lovely old farmhouse overlooking the moors close to the Brontë...

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A bit of Romania in Yorkshire – minus chocolate cakes

Daniel’s cafe/bistro Ilkley is not run by Daniel but by his daughter Miruna and her husband. The name is a tribute to Miruna’s father who runs a hotel in our other favourite place, the Romanian...

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Triple celebration: a birthday, a new year and ……

Răcitură New Year’s Eve is a special celebration for us: it is my wife Petronela (P)’s birthday, which in accord with Romanian tradition means ‘open house’, the table spread with Romanian food. No...

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Amazing weather – disastrous in Romania

I have never seen Romania so green, so beautiful, but it is a beauty only skin deep. Beneath the surface disasters are happening. We left Yorkshire with an extraordinary summer, weeks of sunshine with...

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