Search


- Jun 16
Bland - some thoughts and a recipe
"Bland: lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. Unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid." Oxford Languages...
11 views0 comments


- Jun 1
Three moments in time - gnocchi
"Gnocchi is not just for rib-sticking, soul-warming meals by candlelight, but for light summer days, too." Nigel Slater Uninspired again...
9 views0 comments


- May 24
Mare nostrum
"When visitors to France and Spain, in particular, drive towards the sea they say that the sensation at a certain point is of opening a...
7 views0 comments


- Apr 29
Carrot soup
"a recipe designed to be as fluid as the weather" Nigel Slater Yesterday I wrote about boredom and looking at the title of this post you...
2 views0 comments


- Mar 21
Middle-Eastern then and now
"Fusion is just a way of describing what we are doing today. When you think of the Ottoman Empire, that's exactly what they were doing –...
3 views0 comments


- Feb 4
Brown but so much more
"Colour fades as flavour deepens: a metaphor for much of life I suggest." Nigella Lawson Which is, indeed food for thought. In her book...
8 views0 comments


- Jan 29
Nostalgia and the 'caff'
"I’m really genuinely terrified that we are losing for ever the caff. And I mean that very specifically: the caff not the cafe ......
10 views0 comments


- Jun 30, 2022
"The most exciting meal of my life"
This is me, roundabout the age of fifteen I think, and so a little older than when I experienced the most exciting meal of my life. It's...
21 views0 comments


- Jun 22, 2022
'A circuitous route to 'A word from ...'
"Indecision is a decision" Jason Evert I meandered to this post from a starting point which was going to lead elsewhere. However, as I...
6 views0 comments


- Apr 20, 2022
Smithfield and a London pub's story
"Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets - God Bless the pubs." Guillermo del Toro I'm not sure...
8 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 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...
6 views0 comments


- Dec 28, 2021
Time to say goodbye to Graham I think
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.” Kenzaburō Ōe We are now fairly certain that our good friend Graham...
34 views0 comments


- Dec 14, 2021
Back - to basics and beginnings
It's been almost a week since I have created a post for this blog. Why? Well all sorts of reasons, most of them being just that I have...
13 views0 comments


- Dec 8, 2021
A jug
"As cooks, we hang on to some implements for vast periods of time ... What starts out as a mere functional tool, through time becomes...
5 views0 comments


- Nov 30, 2021
A blast from the past - poppy seed cake
"However unpredictable the weather, however disastrous the outing, however much fun has not really been had on the family-day out,...
4 views0 comments


- Oct 9, 2021
Dinner brings memories of yesteryear
"food memories. They aren’t just based on the facts, or our need for survival, but are shaped by the context ― the company, the situation...
21 views0 comments


- Aug 20, 2021
Cream buns
“The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.” T.H. White Almost the last item in the current Coles Magazine is this -...
5 views0 comments


- Aug 18, 2021
A dream tea on the terrace
"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."...
9 views0 comments


- Aug 16, 2021
Sisters - a moment in time
"A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double." Toni Morrison As usual I...
9 views0 comments