I have a confession to make: I’m an East-ender. Not born within the sound of the Bow bells, as such – more like an adoptive East-ender. I have lived east of Tower Bridge since arriving in the UK 6 years ago, my last two jobs were in postcodes beginning with E and, in fact, the […]
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Yes folks, astonishingly, I still haven’t finished telling you about my baking exploits!! Just to recap – I had already made lemon shortbread and double peanut butter cookies, both of which had turned out to be delicious. But there was one more cookie I was dying to make, and that was something I’d seen on […]
Click here for a full portionDouble peanut butter cookies
As I mentioned, for eleven months of the year, I’m not much of a baker. Then suddenly December arrives and stirs all these wonderful memories of afternoons spent in a fragrant kitchen with my mom, and I develop an atavistic yearning to bake cookies. Of course, recently I’ve also had a perfect excuse – the […]
Click here for a full portionLemon shortbread bars
Yes folks, it’s that time of year again, when even the most reluctant bakers (like me!) dust off their aprons and head for the kitchen clutching blocks of shortening, cartons of eggs and bags of sugar. There’s just something about Christmas that brings out the latent baker in all of us. I remember that when […]
Click here for a full portionNew York day 2 – Luzzo’s and the quest for the perfect pizza
Mmmm, pizza. Can there be a more perfect food? It’s carby, it’s cheesy, it can be customised to be austere or extravagant or bland or spicy. It can be eaten alone or happily shared with friends. It can be eaten while walking down a street in Rome, or standing up at a station cafe in […]
Click here for a full portionNew York day 2 – Lady Liberty and Katz’s Deli
And I dreamed I was flying And high up above eyes could clearly see The Statue of Liberty, Sailing away to sea – Simon & Garfunkel
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