So… you buy a ton of tomatoes. You spend a day or so roasting them veeeeeeery slowly in your oven. Then you bottle them in olive oil. But then comes the hard part: what to do with them? Of course, the easy option is simply to eat them out of the jar when nobody is […]
Click here for a full portionTriple ginger layer cake
I am not a baker. Or at the very least, I am to baking what Hunter S. Thompson was to journalism. All my baking escapades seem to involve the wrong ingredients due to crazy last-minute substitutions, incorrect or inadequate equipment (I mean, does every home really need a palette knife??) and a laissez faire attitude […]
Click here for a full portionRoast figs with balsamic vinegar and pine nuts
Aaaah, figs. We are bang in the middle of their lamentably short season at the moment and I don’t seem to be able to walk past them without buying a few.
Click here for a full portionWe are the champions
To the 15 men who carried the hopes and dreams of 48 million people on their shoulders last night and did not drop them, all I can say is THANK YOU – and you deserve it.
Click here for a full portionThe Famous Four meme
An age ago I was tagged for this meme by the lovely Niamh of Eat Like a Girl – and today I finally got round to completing it – hurrah! So sit, back, relax and enjoy.
Click here for a full portionDon pedros for dessert
So who the heck is Don Pedro anyway? Well, he might be: * a prince of Aragon in the Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare * an American actor * a former governor of Guatemala * a Filipino politician * a Latin-American restaurant in New York * a dam
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