Can you believe this is already the FOURTEENTH End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza?? No, me neither. But here it is, and the challenge this month was to sumbit your eggy, toasty dish in the form of a parody of your favourite poem or poet. Oh boy, did we get a selection!! Percy Bysse […]
Click here for a full portionIndividual smoked mackerel pate parcels [GF]
When I was a teenager, my parents hit upon the extravagant and fabulous idea that the family should go to Cape Town every year just before Christmas for a few days. I think on my father’s part, this sprung from a frustrated desire to live there permanently – he and my mom had lived there […]
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Cast your minds back to, say… November last year. To be precise, the 12th of November, a week after the London food bloggers got together with Becks & Posh at Gordon’s Wine Bar. Why specifically the 12th? Because this was when the London food bloggers got together at yours truly the Cooksister’s house for an […]
Click here for a full portionEoMEoTE#14 – In Ovadu did Kubla Cluck…
Ovadu [with sincere apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge] At End of Month did Cooksister An egg on toast event decree: Where yolk the sacred liquid ran Through breadrolls fashioned in a pan To feed both you and me. So twice eggs made a cracking sound And soon they were no longer round. And there were […]
Click here for a full portionAnnouncing EoMEoTE#14 – the parody poetry edition
Yes, it’s the first of the month, and that can only mean one thing – the End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza is back after a December hiatus! Hurrah! I know some of you have been quietly making enquiries as to whether the event will be taking place this month and the answer is […]
Click here for a full portionJerusalem artichoke soup – love at first slurp [GF]
Did I ever mention that I’m not from around these parts? 😛 Well, erm, possibly yes. And that means that a lot of food that I am now eating was entirely new to me five years ago when I arrived. I mean, to give you an idea, a well-known store in my hometown was in […]
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