I completely forgot to take a picture of my rainbow rice dinner – an Abel and Cole recipe. But I thought I’d share with you a much better picture that I took yesterday…
My beautiful engagement ring 
Visiting my parents on Saturday didn’t result in me eating meat as I thought it would. I had a verge version of the fig, balsamic and pancetta starter – with brie – and then a very nice puttanesca a la delia. Delicious!
Grilled balsamic figs with brie, gran padano shavings and rocket salad
Spaghetti Puttanesca
Black bean fajitas with tomato salsa and blackened onions
Recipe was my concoction and involved black turtle beans – let me know if you want the recipe!
We went to the lovely Tampopo last night for dinner – somewhere I would most definitely recommend – and both managed to remain on the meat free wagon…
I’m even quite looking forward to the bean burritos with guacamole that I have planned for this evening!
Pad Krapow with prawns and Hokkein noodles
The third day of meatlessness is going well…though I’ve been fantasising about salami
Asparagus, caramelised onion and pea spaghetti with herb salad and roasted corn on the cob
If you want the recipe, let me know!
Seeing as I completely forgot to take a picture of the lentil and squash curry Mr B cooked me as I was too busy wolfing it down, I thought I’d share a little peek at some of the things I’ve been making for my shop…felt flower brooches with vintage button centers.
Not long now! (yes, I am obsessed with pixlr o' matic!)
Having eaten a little too much meat over the weekend and having lots of veg in our box, I thought I’d share our week of meatless meals…
Butternut squash and chick pea curry with grilled pitta
Courtesy of eatlikeagirl. Delicious – sweet, coconutty and peppery.
The more astute amongst you may have noticed that I have given the blog a little bit of a facelift in recent weeks, tweaking the layout and my banner style using my most rustiest, un-educated Photoshop skills to attempt to make it look halfway decent whilst avoiding paying for one of the far more beautiful and well created WordPress layouts…well I tried 
What is far more important than this is the reasoning behind my changes – I’ve decided to bite the bullet, stop procrastinating, stop imagining and get moving and open my very own Etsy shop where I will be selling my handmade, thrifted and generally awesome items for Mr Jo public to covet and perhaps, maybe (please) purchase. Whilst I have set things in motion though (this was a big step for the tired, lazy me of 2012), I have yet to actually photograph any of the items I have created or to put them up on the shop…so I guess it’s a bit of a watch this space for the moment. You won’t have to wait for too long I hope…
My very own little shop
