Search
Jan 31, 2022
Salad days - not my thing
"I must acknowledge my true nature. I am a winter cook currently forced to endure the summer months." Jay Rayner - The Guardian I...
17 views0 comments
Jan 30, 2022
I do like to be beside the seaside
Such is my lack of inspiration at the moment I am today combining two of my writer's block stimuli - a moment in time and a lucky dip. I...
20 views0 comments
Jan 29, 2022
So simple but so delicious - potted fish
"There are restaurateurs and cookery journalists who like to call confections such as haddock and kipper paste by the name of pâté. I...
13 views0 comments
Jan 28, 2022
Did consommé die?
"Consommé shows skill and panache without shouting, like a Savile Row shirt: crisp, understated, but oozing style and class. Consommé is...
8 views0 comments
Jan 27, 2022
Onions et al.(liums)
"the onion acts as an architectural underpinning or seasoning to make other vegetables more flavoursome." Bert Greene I'm not about to...
7 views0 comments
Jan 26, 2022
A chicken breast on a hot day
"don’t subscribe to the fatalistic notion that people simply “run out of ideas.” There are infinitely more ideas than you could ever use...
12 views0 comments
Jan 25, 2022
Japanese (sansai udon) from Madhur Jaffrey
"Most of the vegetables Keiko used grew wild in the hills around her. Each had been cooked separately and then arranged over the noodles...
9 views0 comments
Jan 24, 2022
On magic, perfection, mystery, Elizabeth David and Mère Poulard's omelette
"one of life's simplest, quickest and most pleasant dishes." Delia Smith "Once upon a time" begins Elizabeth David's classic essay An...
20 views0 comments
Jan 23, 2022
16 Rue Marie-Stuart, Paris 2e ar
random musings on a hot afternoon This is my new notebook for jotting down ideas, websites and various things that might be of interest...
29 views0 comments
Jan 22, 2022
Is your freezer your friend or enemy?
"much insight can be gained when having a rummage through a person's freezer." Shelf Love Which is a bit of a worry if you rummaged...
14 views0 comments
Jan 21, 2022
An unlikely mild disappointment
"These impressive looking peppers are deceptively easy to put together" Shelf Love On the left Ottolenghi, on the right mine. It was a...
8 views0 comments
Jan 20, 2022
From the sublime to the slightly ridiculous - lamingtons
"essentially, plain cakes with frills". Felicity Cloake It seems almost insulting to turn to Lamingtons - a supremely ordinary if...
11 views0 comments
Jan 19, 2022
Another sad goodbye
"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude." Thornton Wilder I sit here in my beautiful garden on this sunny day...
49 views0 comments
Jan 18, 2022
David's favourite soup
"The most silken winter squash soup I know is a delicate blending of curried butternut squash, combined with winter's best plum tomatoes,...
12 views0 comments
Jan 17, 2022
From a website to the whole cultural diversity thing
"I just started with curiosity and kept asking questions, eating out and metabolising lots of facts from articles and books – anyone can...
7 views0 comments
Jan 16, 2022
A recipe and Marsala
"my favourite alcohol in the kitchen ... whose warm, nutty notes marry blissfully with dairy." Nigel Slater Last night was my day to try...
14 views0 comments
Jan 15, 2022
Choosing somewhere to eat - a moment in time
"there comes a point when researching cool restaurants so you don’t ruin your holiday tips into, well … ruining your holiday by...
27 views0 comments
Jan 14, 2022
Veganism
"veganism is the wellness industry’s new cash cow." David Cox - The Guardian I have been meaning to do a post on veganism for some time,...
9 views0 comments
Jan 13, 2022
2021 - a shrinking world of small delights and triumphs
"People don't like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another." Terry Pratchett 2020...
25 views0 comments
Jan 12, 2022
Strawberries - Manet, Renoir, Jane Grigson and Snow White
"When Chardin lived, wild strawberries were the only ones. His contemporary, Diderot, described them as being like 'the tip of a...
14 views0 comments