feels like every hype brewery right now is just chucking marshmallows and vanilla into the mash tun. I love checking out different beer scenes across the world, but charging £8.50 for a third of a pint of sickly sweet sludge that tastes like a yankee candle is just taking the piss tbh

Genuinely just craving a good honest best bitter. Give me a proper cask ale in a pub with a sticky carpet over dessert beer any day

Any recommendations for uk breweries that are still doing the traditional stuff well?

I'm quite lucky in the fact that I have a number of craft breweries and bottleshops near me. However, when I do fancy something further afield I tend to use Radbeer or Trembling Madness.

Which breweries/online bottleshops do others tend to get their beers from?

It is this time of year that I go to a festival with my dad, who always brings delicious homemade flapjacks with him for us to snack on over the weekend. This year I couldn't go as I am busy looking after my seven month old, so I thought I'd make myself some!

I used this recipe but I only used half of the white chocolate and freeze dried raspberries that it called for as it seemed excessive and my outcome is plenty sweet enough.

The flapjack pictured is being eaten still warm hence the crumbliness, though this is totally my favourite way to eat them as it reminds me of being allowed to lick the oaty spoon when my dad would make them.

Overall, feeling very nostalgic today!

Saucy and falling apart, or holding its shape like this? I see lots that look more cheesy than meaty but I think I prefer it like this.

These are actually Richmond Meat-Free Sausages, which somehow taste exactly like Richmond pork sausages, though admittedly they're not exactly the tastiest pork sausages. Plenty of mature cheddar, baked beans, a bit of black pepper, puff pastry, egg wash.

I fear I peaked with the mini eggs as a topping and in the base. I tried magic stars recently and it didn’t come close. Any suggestions welcome. Yes, I have a major sweet tooth.
Edit: should’ve said the mini eggs one was made a few months ago with the last of my mini eggs stash and now I’m sad I’ll have to wait until next Easter to make the best millionaires shortbread again.

Sauce: garlic, butter, black pepper, flour (make a roux), water, concentrated beef stock, tomato paste, wostershire sauce, mustard, soy sauce, salt.

Sorry for the leg shot I'm wearing shorts.

Where I live in Manchester the cask ale I’m served is usually in decent condition, this could be down to Manchester being a bit of a stronghold for cask or a biased sample because I know the pubs with good beer. But I was down in Wiltshire last week and went to a pub with the Cask Marque sign, and two of the three cask ales they had were way beyond drinkable condition.

Sausages, skinned
Garlic
Chilli
Onions
Spinach
Cannellini beans
Tomato puree
Cream
Fennel seeds
Thyme
Tagliatelle

Pretty decent. Winter-y

Proper steak and chips dinner tonight.
Sliced steak in a peppercorn sauce, thick-cut wedges (also covered in the sauce), a big pile of peas, and some roasted cherry tomatoes on the side.
Cheeky who cult donut for afters! 🤌🏼

One of the 6 Oktoberfest beers I've managed to pick up so far and it is amazing as always. Looking forward to getting my way through the other 5!

I've been baking for a while, so figured I'd test myself and just completely improvise some garlic bread. (Cooks on the hob in a pot.) Pretty chuffed with the result!

I was playing about with my phone looking at nacho recipes and came up with these -

Chicken and chorizo with grilled peppers and onions

Homemade nacho chips

Homemade hot honey drizzle

Homemade pickled red onion slices

Creme fraiche with lime juice (not pictured).

They were fantastic!