Two weeks ago I had the great pleasure of spending an evening in the company of two of my favourite food bloggers: Johanna and Pille. Our dinner booking was only for 20h30, which is probably a good thing as this gave Pille and me a chance to spend an hour or so enthusing about our […]
Click here for a full portionPear and cardamom tarte tatin
Synchronicity, n: a meaningful coincidence; when disparate events unexpectedly come together perfectly. Take, for example, a weekend earlier this year. Disparate Event 1: I had friends coming over for lunch and was pondering what to make for dessert. Disparate Event 2: I had read Johanna’s recipe for a savoury tarte tatin and was so keen […]
Click here for a full portionBeer and cheese bread for lazy bakers
Bread. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Breadship Cooksister. Her mission: to explore new loaves. To seek out new yeasts and new starters. To boldly bake where no dough has gone before… [wakes up from dream]
Click here for a full portionEaster 2007: Borough Market and Pieminister pies
When Christina and I saw each other a couple of weeks ago at a (yet-to-be-blogged) tea at Johanna‘s we discovered that we would both be in London and at a loose end over Easter, and after about ten seconds of discussion we decided that this would be a great excuse to visit Borough Market again. […]
Click here for a full portionRhubarb crumble – a very English pleasure
I have had a long acquaintance with rhubarb – in fact I first encountered it about 25 years ago while still at school. But I only ate it for the first time about a year ago, and I didn’t cook with it until this month. So what, I hear you ask, was my acquaintance with […]
Click here for a full portionEaster 2007: sushi in Regents park
It’s not often that a long weekend and glorious weather coincide in this town – especially not when the long weekend in question falls in early April! But would you believe, over the Easter weekend two weeks ago, that’s exactly what happened – four glorious days of balmy weather and no work. Can life get […]
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