This is a public service announcement. Next Sunday is Stir Up Sunday. The traditional time to make your Christmas cakes. I gave you my favourite recipe last year and I’ve not found anything to beat it yet. If you enjoy the process but don’t...
We are a family on the edge of a rift. It’s only come to the surface recently but it’s serious and I’m not sure that it can be easily fixed. Let me start by saying I’m right, obviously. It’s summer. As it’s England we do not...
When I met the beloved he was vegetarian. He was living in a vegan commune at the time and we joke that I tempted him into marrying me through a killer combination of hot water, fluffy towels and bacon butties. I strongly suspect that as The Untouchables teaches us...
It’s pancake day tomorrow. Lent starts by using up all the good stuff in the house before fasting for 40 days starts. The good stuff being milk, eggs and flour. Lent is not the time for fluffy pancakes. It’s a time for crepes. Thin, gorgeous...
I like food. I spend a lot of time thinking about it, love eating it and will ask unsettlingly detailed questions about what you have tea. Tell me about a new restaurant and I will be there. I am always good for a recommendation and I usually have to apologise as I...
I asked my friend, Martine (beauty therapist, pilates teacher, cat lover, cake whisperer, life guru extraordinaire), for a clementine cake recipe and she recommended this one. It’s from a Rick Stein book but it was by Maggie Agostini. We chatted about the fact...
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