welcome to 2015

the viking and I taking a stroll along Laguna Beach
... hello all and happy new year... I won't deny it but I really enjoyed twenty fourteen... work was hard but exciting, my health was incrementally better than the previous year and whilst I love a good moan, the blog also brought me a lot of joy... twenty fifteen is promising to be another good year, there will be more hard work but it already looks like it will be as thrilling as last year, i'm promising myself that I will also work hard at improving my health even more and of course I have plans to weave the story of this blog into my life a little more so that I have a better work/life balance... i'd like to aim to go back to the reason I started this blog which was to write about the food I cook and the food I enjoy and my life as a lover of food... there will be plenty of, hopefully delicious and inspirational recipes and I look forward to being inspired by others and discovering new cooks and blogs along the way. Of course I will try and be as generous with my comments on all my favourite blogs as I can be and hope to share my thoughts and inspirations in a positive way...

... in the meantime (and until I get back to the kitchen) here are some postcards of my recent holiday to California... the home of Kale...

eat and of course, enjoy!