There can be no better feeling that arriving in a foreign city and having good friends there to look after you, to welcome you into their home, advise you on all the best places to go and secure hard-to-get bookings. Unless you are lucky enough to have friends in all the world’s major cities, you […]
Click here for a full portionCumin and caraway honey-roast carrots
Sometimes, the simplest things are the best. A really good espresso. A perfectly ripe peach Hot buttered toast. Freshly squeezed orange juice.
Click here for a full portionCranberry & pear upside down cake
Isn’t it wonderful when winter slooooooowly starts to recede and bit by bit, you can see the selection of fruit (and vegetables!) improving? Where before there were only forlorn and ridiculously out of season mangoes and strawberries, suddenly the wonderful deciduous fruits are reappearing – and English cherries and strawberries can’t be far behind!
Click here for a full portionSmoked salmon eggs Benedict for an anniversary breakfast
Fact: marriage is hard work. And I have a suspicion that everyone reading this who is married will agree with me on this…! Of course it’s also fun, rewarding and comfortable, but anybody entering into it with the idea that it is going to be moonlight and roses is in for a painful reality check. […]
Click here for a full portionOat and cherry muffins
The older I get, the more I envy people who can look dispassionately at all the things they have accumulated… and one day decide to ditch them all – or at least, a large proportion of them. A good friend of mine who I knew at university and who had always said that what he […]
Click here for a full portionPeach and cardamom clafoutis
Food blog events – bless ’em! Pick a weird acronym and I can almost guarantee it has already been used in the wonderful world of food blogs – IMBB, SHF, WTSIM, EOMEOTE, WHB, HHDD, DMBLGIT, WBW… need I continue?? And they’re all designed to make you cook out of your comfort zone: make puff pastry! […]
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