Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Star Bistro



For ages I have wanted to go to The Star Bistro in Ullenwood, which is a joint venture by The Wiggly Worm team (a charity that works amongst the vulnerable, disadvantaged or seldom heard) and the students from the National Star College (specialist further education college for people with disabilities).  They have recently got through to the finals on Food Glorious Food on ITV1 with their Pimm’s Jelly, fingers crossed they win.

Today we finally managed to go and I really hope we go again soon.  Not only because the food we had was lovely and the place is great but the menu is so good, I was torn what to choose.  So I need to go back and try the other things I like the look of.

I had Butternut Squash Risotto and Tweedy had Confit Duck.  I really wanted to try the Mussels, Chilled Poached Salmon with Cucumber Salad and the Seared Bavette Steak.  There were so many amazing sounding dishes on the menu.




Photo taken from Star Bistro’s FaceBook page

Tweedy really isn't in to food that much.  To him it is fuel he needs to make him function and often forgets to eat and only remembers when he gets dizzy.  He generally eats out because I love good food and if I ask him how his was he normally shrugs and says “It was OK”, but even he said his duck was full of so many flavours. 

I can’t recommend The Star Bistro enough; it is great on so many levels.

Pickle


Around two years ago when we first started looking for a parti poodle, I would show people a particular photo I found on Google images, saying "I want one just like this one, but I don't think they will let me have it". I had no idea if the dog in the photo was from the UK or even alive. I just showed people the photo to show them what a parti poodle was and thought it was a fine example of what I was looking for. Finally we found Apple and she has been part of our family for over a year. There is something strange about parti poodles though and most people who have them seem to have more than one. I have no idea why but very soon I realised I wanted a friend for Apple. I contacted a breeder that I had emailed before and whom others I knew had recommended and decided I would like one of her puppies even if I had to wait a while. Amazingly though, the day before I emailed her she had, had a boy born. Even more amazing though was I found out that his Grandmother was the poodle from the picture I use to show everyone 18 months ago. It was lovely to meet her when we went to collect him. So introducing Pickle…



…he really is a pickle!