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Meet Amanda Wren-Grimwood

 

Hi. I'm Amanda and I love food!

A warm welcome if you find yourself on my website. Please take a few moments to have a look around.

I was the only child in our family and I grew up accompanying my dad shooting and fishing. In fact my dad did all the cooking and encouraged me from a young age to experiment, particularly with frugal food. I prefer to cook from scratch, whenever possible, but know how hard that can be so I like to cheat occasionally.  To save time I love to create recipes that are simple, use less pans and have a twist. I also love to entertain so for special occasions you will also find more complicated recipes, but I promise that they will be worth it.

Every recipe I make is for my own family to eat and we enjoy a range of foods in moderation so there is no particular dietary influence. I'm just a dedicated home cook! However, if something is gluten free or vegetarian I will point it out.

I lived in France on an old farm in Deux Sevres, about an hour from La Rochelle on the west coast for four years and spent much of my time learning about French cuisine and creating new recipes. I am now living in Lincolnshire in the heart of farmland and will be using local, seasonal ingredients in my recipes.

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  1. Amanda

    Hi Kevin, I would love to publish a physical book. Unfortunately, the cost would be huge unless demand was high. Perhaps I need to add a poll to see how much interest there is and revisit this again soon. Best wishes, Amanda

  2. Kevin Keeble

    please can you tell me if "simple French Recipes" is a book that i can purchase?
    if so please tell me where i can get a copy as i have search on-line and can't find it?
    thank you very much

  3. Amanda

    Thanks so much for visiting.

  4. Team GK

    Nice Blog... Best Wishes Always 🙂

  5. [email protected]

    Thanks for visiting and the lovely comments.

  6. pat@alldayieat

    Amanda, love your site and gourmet recipes! they are exactly the kind of things i like to eat ! i look forward to seeing what you come up with next 😀

  7. [email protected]

    Thanks for visiting. Looking forward to seeing more on your blog too!

  8. thenewlymrsb

    Beautiful blog! I can't wait to try out some of the recipes.

  9. [email protected]

    Hi Dave. Thanks for the nice comments and stopping by. Glad you like France, although I'm sure you've been to many more glamorous places. I would love to say it's a big holiday but I wish it was. Anyway, fellow English foodies together. Amanda

  10. [email protected]

    Hi Dave. Thanks for the nice comments and stopping by. Glad you like France, although I'm sure you've been to many more glamorous places. Anyway, fellow English foodies together. Amanda

  11. David Crichton

    Hi Amanda, lovely to find your blog. Your life in France sounds a great big holiday. La Rochelle just reminds me of Tricolour. Still never been, even though we go on holiday to France every year.

    Just going to have a browse through all your lovely recipes.

    Dave

  12. [email protected]

    Thanks very much. Have just commented.

  13. cookandenjoyrecipes

    Thank you for following my blog. Hope you find it interesting and like the recipes our members tried and tested.

    Would you be interested to be a Guest poster with us, and share some of your awesome recipes on our blog?

    Have a look at:
    https://cookandenjoyrecipes.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/update-fellow-bloggers-sharing-is-caring-recipe-exchange/ and leave me a note in the comments of this post, with a link to your recipe, if you’re interested. That will be just fantastic. Hope to hear from you soon ?

  14. [email protected]

    Thank you so much Archana. I'm off to see your blog 🙂

  15. Archana

    Love your blog Amanda!

  16. chezlerevefrancais

    Thank you too! Yes must get back on the writing, cooking and gardening takes up a lot of time so thanks for the compliment 🙂

  17. marymtf

    Don't like brains or tripe either, Amanda. Had brains once. (Was tricked into it.) It's obvious that you love food, you have some lovely recipes I intend to check out and try. Don't stop, will you?
    Thanks for following. 🙂
    If you have a novel in your bottom drawer, you might want to drop in on Kristen Lamb's Blog. She's really inspirational.
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