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- Nov 14
Take five - from maths to Jamie
I began this post yesterday, inspired by the painting on the left, but I didn't finish it and anyway I was very dissatisfied with what I...
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- Sep 10
Classic - apple pie
"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness." Jane Austen The first thing to say is that this is a first recipe...
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- Aug 28
Deliciously English
"sometimes it takes years of looking at other countries to realise how wonderful your own actually is." Jamie Oliver I'm sort of killing...
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- Jun 16
Bland - some thoughts and a recipe
"Bland: lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. Unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid." Oxford Languages...
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- Jun 8
Pretty in pink - and green
“If cauliflower can be rice, can radishes be potatoes?” Janelle Rohner on TikTok I'm talking about radishes and peas here, not just...
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- Apr 1
A recipe a method or just an idea?
"the possibilities are endless." Gourmet Traveller Last night we had friends to dinner, some of whom were vegetarian, so vegetarian was...
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- Feb 20
Lessons from a family feast
“If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a...
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- Feb 16
Wedge salads
"America's silliest salad. It's built upon the back of the least flavorful and least nutrient-dense lettuce available and blanketed in...
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- Feb 13
Baking sole with Jamie
"If I've learnt anything from the Italians about fish, it is definitely 'less is more'" Jamie Oliver It's lucky dip time because it's...
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- Sep 2, 2022
National cuisines and in defence of the English one
"A tapestry and patchwork quilt that embraces the best of the old traditions as well as the newer additions to our repertoire, which are...
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- Jul 26, 2022
Scrambled eggs - I think I've been here before
"everybody has his own method, which is invariably the right and proper one." Elizabeth David I feel sure I've done all this before, and...
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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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