Well folks, like Bilbo Baggins I’ve been there and now I’m back. All the way from over here above, which is the view from my bedroom window at home in South Africa last week… to over here below, which was the view from our guest room in London yesterday morning. And I have […]
Click here for a full portionIndividual chocolate fondant puddings – my birthday Part II
As I mentioned in my “Birthday Part I” post, I decided to make the main course relatively low-fat and forego the cream in the potato bake. Now for someone who has in the past come out strongly in favour of her right to eat high-fat foods, this may seem to be an extraordinary thing […]
Click here for a full portionFeta-filled chicken breasts wrapped in bacon
After my Christmas cookie blast-from-the past post, I thought it fitting to do something a little more recent – my birthday lunch a couple of weeks ago at home! Yes, sadly the Cooksister is another year older, although I have decided to follow in the footsteps of Johanna‘s grandmother who reached her mid-sixties and then […]
Click here for a full portionEoMEoTE #15 – the film noir edition
THE STORY SO FAR: Southern belle and one-time stripper Coco Meringue has come to the Cracked Shell detective agency to ask hard-bitten PI Troy Yolk to track down her missing husband, shady businessman Larry “Lemon” Meringue. Now read on…
Click here for a full portionEoMEoTE #15 – A hard(-boiled) man is good to find
It was a Tuesday afternoon. Business was slow at the Cracked Shell detective agency. Troy Yolk stared moodily out through the grimy Venetian blinds covering his window and out into the street below, slowly clenching and unclenching his jaw. He hated these times between jobs. Too much time to think.
Click here for a full portionBeef in Guinness stew
I was trawling through some of my old posts the other day and stumbled upon my Lancashire hotpot recipe, originally intended to be the first in a series of British dishes. But, as you do, I got somewhat distracted and of course Part I was as far as we got. At the time of writing, […]
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