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Lovers of fine vegetarian food. If we're not cooking or eating it, we're reading, talking or writing about it. Messy eaters, we wear our food with pride! Faithful servants of feline overlords. Based: Cardiff, Wales Writing at: blognotleafycardiff.home.blog

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · Aug 31

NEW ON THE BLOG:

Boxing clever: Made in Oldstead At Home

Did it deliver?
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Boxing clever: Made in Oldstead At Home

It was the hottest day of the year so far and we’d already decided to eat our anniversary dinner in our underwear. Trouble was the dinner was planned for tomorrow and it’d been out for delivery sin…

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 22h

Ooh, interesting move! Flavours ahoy. Haven't been there since forever when Mme had work shouts in the area, looks like a return visit could be on the cards.

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 1d

Looks the dog's...now wondering how to be coffee morning gate crashers.

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, hadn't seen that - and it does. Thank you for sharing!

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 1d

It is!!

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 1d

Each a glimpse and gone forever.

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 1d

It's a lovely idea, hope you both enjoy the day!

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking bread:

A study's found "frequently enjoying a greater number of international foods reduced the likelihood of perceiving immigrants as 'cultural or economic threats' by a tenth" associations remaining after control for right wing political views. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc....

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds

Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

www.theguardian.com

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 2d

Sad to hear several items, including bronze age gold jewellery, have been stolen from St Fagans.

Anyone with information is urged to contact South Wales Police as soon as possible. "Any information, no matter how small, may be relevant to the investigation.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff

South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums

www.theguardian.com

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 2d

Great news, so very relieved for you💚

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Gourmet Gorro - Ed Gilbert @gourmetgorro.bsky.social · 2d

New on the blog - a fine lunch at Georges V, Lille's self-styled "Temple du Welsh":
gourmetgorro.blogspot.com/2025/10/geor...

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 2d

We thought of you and yours when we heard what had happened. We share the feelings of horror, hope and a profound belief that unity is the way to overcome division.
Our love to you and your family xx

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 3d

Something wholesome and beautiful for your Sunday timeline. 🦉🦉🦉

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 3d

Bendigedig iawn!

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Vanilla Black @vanillablack.bsky.social · 3d

The second week of opening a restaurant in London. Could it get any worse?

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 3d

Mr Bites?
Weather's far better for them this morning, thankfully.

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 3d

Aww, bless him!

(We do here too with a "Cheers Drive" when passing them on the way off).

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

That is SO cool. And benri desu😁😁

Could watch it for hours. Enjoyed well enough the vintage tractor & kit ploughing the field opposite where we stayed in France but that is a whole other level!

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, and we thought 46 was good going! A very happy anniversary to you fellow time flyers🥂🍾

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

How disappointing! Shame they don't have an accessible option.

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

Full of cheer!
The colours are reflective of the zigzag designs in a shop we passed in town yesterday - think it was Lucy & Yak.

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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

Would be itching to cook after a trip like that! Wishing you the happiest of hauls.

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

More heavy rain than blustery on the way home, the gusts strengthened later. Blue skies & 50+ gusts this morning. Both pastries were excellent but Mme's sweet tooth is with yours!

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

"...British retailers have already pledged to go cage-free by 2025. That promise is undermined if imports from countries with weaker welfare standards are allowed to fill the gap into the price-sensitive food service and processing sectors.” www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Warnings of imports of caged hen eggs as Ukraine and Poland become UK’s biggest suppliers

Shift raises food safety and welfare concerns as imports can bypass standards for domestic producers

www.theguardian.com

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

They're lovely people too.

team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 4d

They made it home through the rain. Curtains pulled, sofa occupied, wine chilling, cats deployed, @pettigrewbakes.bsky.social's legendary laminated pastries at the ready & all feels well in our corner of the world.

Left: Caprese Danish
Right: Blackberry, Honey & Lavender Danish

A Caprese Danish from Pettigrew Bakeries sits on a brown-edged & flecked blue plate. The rectangular-shaped pastry is brown, showing its laminations. In the centre: red tomato, white cheese & green basil leaves - pesto lies underneath.

A Blackberry, Honey & Lavender Danish from Pettigrew Bakeries sits on a brown-edged & flecked blue plate. The rectangular-shaped pastry is raised, courtesy of its laminations. In the centre: two blackberries lie atop a fragrant piped white filling.

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