“His name was never mentioned in dispatches Nor was he hero of the desperate stand His death obscured no headlines… … Yet one there was for whom his life held meaning And with his passing grief walled up the sun” From The Inarticulate – Andrew Taylor
Click here for a full portionGingery baked nectarines
You know how sometimes you have guests around, whip a dish out of the oven, plate it, serve it, snap off a couple of photos that you think will be OK, and then put away the camera and get back to socialising? And you know how sometimes those unplanned photos can be the best? Well, […]
Click here for a full portionCheese olives
Life likes to throw little surprises our way. Some of them are good. Like having something you lost returned to you by a good Samaritan. Or being upgraded to business class for free on a long-haul flight. Or a longed-for gift bought by an attentive partner. Or winning the lottery 😉
Click here for a full portionSticky BBQ chicken sundowners
I love food on sticks. Hot, cold, sweet, savoury… you name it, I love it. I don’t know what exactly it is about food on sticks that’s so perennially appealing either, but I’m guessing it’s that whiff of the fairground or of streetfood that appeals to me.
Click here for a full portionThe Baskerville, Shiplake
Following on from my post about our delightful food blogger picnic at the Henley Royal Regatta, I though I’d tell you about the wonderful meal we had the night before in Shiplake, just up the road from Henley itself. Andrew very kindly invited us to stay over and so Nick and I drove up from […]
Click here for a full portionSpicy plum crumble in a flash
So you’ve heard of speed dating? I predict the next craze will be speed pudding. Well, it will be in my house, in any event. Old married ladies like me don’t have much use for speed dating 😉 Speed pudding happens when you’ve had a nice meal but you still feel inexplicably peckish. Ice cream […]
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