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Bread and butter
"Perhaps the most beautiful and uncomplicated thing you can put into your face." Joy the Baker During the night I did not feel that well....
5 days ago
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A dessert problem - vegan
First problem - what picture to choose to attract you to read? I shall be mostly talking about vegan desserts and the difficulties...
Nov 12, 2024
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Cookies are NOT good for you
"Every cookie is a sugar cookie. A cookie without sugar is a cracker." Gary Gulman These are my 14 year old grandson's favourite cookies,...
Oct 29, 2024
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You've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die
"there isn’t enough hand sanitiser in the world to keep a small child clean" Homa Khaleeli/The Guardian I continue to be uninspired so...
Sep 27, 2024
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Sport, food, the curriculum - extremes
"Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom." Jack LaLanne It's a particularly pertinent time to...
Jul 27, 2024
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Nooch - new word but new ingredient?
Why would you? I wrote this down as a potential idea a while back, because it seemed to me that it popped up here and there in my reading...
Jul 25, 2024
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Ruminations on what we eat - a project?
"Writer's block is having too much time on your hands." Jodi Picoult I have now been writing this blog for almost eight years, so...
Jun 4, 2024
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"Tears and light"
"That gracious thing, made up of tears and light." Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Mondays I usually fast unless something - like a book...
Apr 30, 2024
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"A gentle hum of happiness" Dessert
"a dessert must feel familiar, yet somehow improved." Yotam Ottolenghi Another day, another quote, this time from Yotam Ottolenghi - yes...
Mar 15, 2024
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Swifties
"Swifty - Australian - a deceptive trick" An alcoholic drink consumed quickly" Oxford Languages "Not a valid Scrabble word" Wordnik "A...
Mar 2, 2024
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Almost 50 years post Cuisine Minceur
"This was far and away the most influential cookery book of the latter half of the last century. It affected almost everything we eat...
Feb 17, 2024
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A frugal heritage
“Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.” Nicholas Sparks My younger son recently wrote a very...
Feb 7, 2024
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After dinner temptations
"More research is needed, but if you are going to cut out snacks at any time of day, the late-night ones are probably the place to...
Jan 24, 2024
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Frozen mangoes to Urban Nanna
"We believe that positive environmental and cultural change is ultimately possible, but that it will be infinitely more attainable if we...
Nov 18, 2023
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Grey food
“Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it’s such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It’s very sleek.” Bryan...
Oct 31, 2023
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Morning sickness
“Early to bed and early to rise, enhances your standing in everyone’s eyes.” The Guardian When I say 'morning sickness' I do not mean...
Sep 5, 2023
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Weight - why do I care?
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” Simone de Beauvoir This is me - in my late twenties I think, in...
Aug 25, 2023
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A comfort drink - hot toddy
"If it could speak, the Toddy would whisper, “There, there, now. Just rest and feel better.” And who doesn’t need that every once in a...
Jul 31, 2023
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#girldinner
"Depending on which side your baguette is buttered, the girl dinner is either a site of liberation or oppression." Alyx Gorman/The...
Jul 30, 2023
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Wee drams
Dram "a small amount of a strong alcoholic drink, especially whisky" Cambridge English Dictionary "A pour of alcohol. The amount is...
Jul 24, 2023
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