At last the turkey leftovers have been finished, the streamers have been swept away and it’s time to get on with the business of 2005 – and the blog events start rolling again! We’ve already had the first Is My Blog Burning? for the year and now it’s time for the first Worldwide Wine Blogging […]
Click here for a full portionEasy sausage & bean casserole with herb dumplings for IMBB #11
Family legends – there’s nothing to beat them. All those catchphrases, anecdotes, made-up words and in-jokes that form the glue that bind together a group of people across the miles and across the years. Our family seems to be a particularly rich source, possibly because we have more eccentricity per square chromosome than most (!), […]
Click here for a full portionRed wine, figs in chocolate for a Friday night at home
Just another Friday? I wish. But if I ate like this every Friday I’d be twice my current size and probably stuck at home on account of being unable to fit into any form of public transport! So what was the occasion? Well, I hadn’t seen Bronwyn for a month, and I felt like cooking […]
Click here for a full portionMy 15 seconds of reflected glory
Well, my husband has repeatedly shaken his head and expressed his sad opinion that I’ve turned into a geek with a weird obsession (i.e. blogging). But bah humbug to him – last month “blog” was chosen as word of the year by US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, so clearly I’m not alone in my geekdom! And […]
Click here for a full portionThe ghost of summers past – an antipasti platter
Do you remember the summer, Miranda? Do you remember the summer? And the slicing and the dicing Of food fresh and enticing And ciabbata on a platter with salami even fatter And the olives that glistened in the sun? (With apologies to Hilaire Belloc)
Click here for a full portionIt’s not what you eat…
So 2005 has arrived and I know that many of you have made New Year’s resolutions, and if you’re like me, at least one of those resolutions has to do with food. For those of you who have resolved to eat more healthily in 2005, I am posting the latest scientific evidence regarding the ideal […]
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