I am a great believer in the oral storytelling tradition. As a child who reached schoolgoing age before television arrived on our shores, I grew up with stories – either those read to me by my mom before an afternoon nap, or told to us by my dad when he used to bath me and […]
Click here for a full portionPasta with ginger prawns, mange tout and sake
My husband is a man of simple tastes – when it comes to food, that is. (When it comes to women his tastes are downright complicated and impossible, as he often reminds me ;-)) Give him a choice of what he wants for dinner and nine times out of ten he will ask for pasta.
Click here for a full portionFive things meme
I love a good meme, I do. So I was intrigued, while catching up on a bit of blog reading last week, to find that the lovely Susan from Foodblogga had tagged me for meme with no name – but which might as well be called Five Things because most of the questions consist of […]
Click here for a full portionBroad bean crostini and cocktails – for one!
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been moaning rather regularly about the weather of late. I mean, it’s late July already and it feels as if we are still waiting for summer to get underway! It’s all too depressing. In fact, the only warm days I remember recently were the Henley […]
Click here for a full portionRace for Life 2007 – been there, run that
Well, I did it last year, I said I was going to do it this year, and now it’s done! Yes folks, the Cancer Research UK’s 5km Race for Life 2007 has been and gone and I (person voted Least Likely Ever to Run a Race in high school) have completed it for the second […]
Click here for a full portionNasturtium leaf salad
Astonishingly, it seems that the teeniest little bit of summer has finally arrived in the UK! I mean, we have had two weekends in a row of reasonable weather (well, not raining, that is…) and I have finally had a chance to spend some time in my sadly neglected garden. I must say that despite […]
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