I have a dirty little secret. Well, a couple, really – I need my regular MSG fix and I am a slave to salt. Hell, I figure I deserve SOME toxins in my life, since I have never smoked a single cigarette, never used recreational drugs, and (since I finished studying!!) I only very occasionally […]
Click here for a full portionTrooping the Colour – things to do in London
** 2021 UPDATE ** The 2021 Trooping the Colour ceremony in which Her Majesty the Queen participates will be taking place on Saturday 12 June 2021 (with two rehearsals on 29 May and 5 June). Seated ticket prices for the stands around Horseguards Parade are as follows: £40.00 each for Trooping the Colour on 12 June […]
Click here for a full portionYellowtail “sandwiches” for IMBB#5
Well, despite all my good intentions, I have spent a week at home in South Africa doing NOTHING but relaxing and eating – and not blogging at all! I have missed it but I really have not had the time… 🙁 But I do realise that I have SOME responsibility to the readers and my […]
Click here for a full portionHenley Wine Fair, May 2004
Last Monday was a public holiday here in the UK and for a change, the weather was lovely and Nick wasn’t rowing. Instead, we slept a little late and then took the train out to Henley-on-Thames for the second annual Henley Wine Fair. Henley is always lovely and it was quite unusual to be there […]
Click here for a full portionHoney-roast chicken: how chicken is meant to taste
Don’t you love making a dish that makes you feel as if you are ten years old again? It has to be something that gets really down-and-dirty messy and involves you getting elbow-deep in ingredients, but preferably also something reasonably simple.
Click here for a full portionChicken breasts in a tomato and chickpea sauce on vegetable couscous
Here’s what we had for dinner last night – I didn’t want anything to rich and creamy (trying to be virtuous, hahahaha!), I didn’t want anything too fussy and I had 2 chicken breasts in the fridge that needed eating – so here’s the end result. Truly delicious!!
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