Summer is now upon us so The Season Of The Barbecque is here.  For the next few months most of us will be spending at least one evening each weekend outdoors, eyes streaming from the smoke, clutching unpleasantly warm beverages as we await what is all too often a confused and potentially indigestible meal. Disappointing [...]

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Comfort Food.  We all know what that means.  It’s a very personal thing, though most of us would agree that buttery mashed potato, a bar of chocolate, a steaming bowl of chicken soup or pizza from your favourite chain are perhaps the most obvious examples. Comfort food is what we turn to when we’re feeling [...]

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Happy Peanut Butter Cookie Day, all. I’d be more excited about it if I didn’t loathe peanut butter so much. But cookies? Cookies rock! Still, the day is what the day – and we here at Fabulous Foodie are not all anti-peanut butter. In fact, some here hold such strong views on the topic that [...]

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It’s National Gumdrop Day and frankly I’m not sure a lot more than that needs to be said. Gum drops. Yummy. Retro. A bit quirky these days when almost anything might be “gummied”. Honestly, the bears were cute but what followed was a bit much. Worms, frogs, sharks, fish, on and on. Apparently at some [...]

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I have just read an article about the menu used by McDonalds in India (no beef since almost no one in the country eats it). And I was all like, “why would you go into a McDonalds in India anyway?” And then I saw it. “mashed-potato sandwich” And now I simply MUST have one.

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