Recently I was listening to a discussion between two of my colleagues about their wills, and about what arrangements they had made for their children’s guardians. Now guardians are a funny thing. If you are Catholic, it’s quite easy – you pick a male and a female friend who you believe would bring up your kid […]
Click here for a full portionSun-dried tomato pesto palmiers
Do you ever get the feeling your mouth is developing the nasty habit of writing out cheques that your body can’t cash? Or at least, that there aren’t enough hours in a day to cash? That’s where I am right now. My head is fizzing with ideas and plans and schemes, but when I […]
Click here for a full portionThyme and sage roasted spaghetti squash – and a cautionary tale
Human beings are, as a rule, obsessed with youth and remaining young. You only have to glance through your local newspaper to see the advertisements for botox (for the stunned as opposed to stunning look!); cosmetic surgery; or lotions and potions “guaranteed” to make you look younger within hours. It seems as if we […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #3
Tower Bridge reflections – London, September 2006
Click here for a full portionRhubarb and ginger clafoutis
So… you think you know rhubarb? “Of course”, you say, “it’s that kind of funny pink celery-looking stuff, isn’t it?” Well, that’s one way of putting it, but did you also know: Rhubarb is not a fruit but a vegetable, closely related to buckwheat and sorrel. The name rhubarb comes from the Latin rhabarbarum meaning […]
Click here for a full portionLuxury mac ‘n’ cheese pots
You know how sometimes everybody likes something… except you? I remember that at school everyone like liquorice… except me. How I wished I could also buy those long black ropes of liquorice at the corner cafe and chew contentedly all afternoon… but sadly it was not to be. Satan’s own shoelaces, if you ask me. […]
Click here for a full portion
