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Jan 3
Seasonality - over there and down here
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." Charles Dickens On the left is the first picture in my new diary for...
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Oct 25, 2024
Tonight's dinner - me or Ottolenghi?
It's one of those fridge challenge days, and I also haven't been able to tick off my new recipe challenge this week as yet. The...
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Sep 13, 2024
Celery and pasta? A tour of the blogs
"That could be anything from very good to quite terrible. It’s hard to tell.” Diane's Cookbooks The opening quote was a given for one of...
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Aug 31, 2024
Caramelised onion chutney - dinner?
"Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing" Mick Napier It's one of those...
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Jul 20, 2024
Inertia
"Nothing happens until something moves." Albert Einstein "Inertia: a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of...
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Feb 6, 2024
Pretty in pink
"Pink isn't just a colour. It's an attitude too" Miley Cyrus Ten years ago on our last night in Beaucaire we dined in the restaurant of...
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Oct 7, 2023
The challenge of feeding families
"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by...
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Aug 29, 2023
A guru in retro fancy mode
"This is a book for the discerning host or hostess who takes pride in serving attractive, memorable meals with that extra 'touch of...
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Dec 27, 2022
Dinner on 9 June 1979
"You are going to love this : I unearthed the menu you served on 9 June 1979" Wendy Wendy is a friend from long ago, and now a faithful...
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Jun 28, 2022
Which recipe would you choose?
"food writing is so cool, calm and collected that it’s nearly hypnotic" A Cookbook a Month So I have this big bag of silverbeet, some of...
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