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Pumpkins, fairy stories and recipes
"A fat round pumpkin is used both as a candlelit ghoul at All Hallows and as a fairytale stagecoach to whisk Cinderella to the ball" ...
7 days ago
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French village moments
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....
Mar 19
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Apparently my shepherd's pie is all wrong
"The best cottage pies and shepherd’s pies are made with leftover roast meat, not mince. In fact, the whole purpose of these pies was to...
Oct 23, 2024
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Past, present, future - reminders
"A reminder helps you remember, whether it's an appointment, an acquaintance's name, or a grocery list." Vocabulary.com I have spoken...
Oct 9, 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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The frustrations of lucky dips
“I tell my students there is such a thing as ‘writer’s block,’ and they should respect it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked,...
Sep 24, 2024
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Collectors and/or creators
"it’s about familiarising yourself with ingredients and understanding flavours." Alex Hely Hutchinson There are so many things that you...
Sep 20, 2024
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More mayo - this time with pineapple
"a pineapple sandwich is one of those foods that it seems only Southerners love and appreciate." Southern Living This one began with a...
Sep 17, 2024
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The joy of meatballs
"I don’t have the evidence to back this up, but I am convinced that meatballs are the greatest food on the planet." Stuart Heritage/The...
Aug 5, 2024
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Egg and chips for tea
"Two perfectly fried eggs and a huge side of chips cooked by someone who loves you. It’s the ultimate comfort food: crispy fried potatoes...
Aug 3, 2024
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My kitchen bit by bit - 2
"Anything can be a lodestar in a person's life, I suppose, and for some fortunates like me, the kitchen serves well." MFK Fisher Which...
Jul 23, 2024
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Decluttering recipe folders
"Ask yourself if it sparks joy" Marie Kondo I decided today to return to my folders of collected recipes - partly looking for...
Jul 16, 2024
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A sort of French heritage
"What had stuck was the taste for a kind of food quite ideally unlike anything I had known before. Ever since, I have been trying to...
May 19, 2024
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Omelette at the Savoy
"There is no reason why this dish should ever change. I can’t improve it" Tom Kerridge On the other hand Felicity Cloake says that it's...
May 1, 2024
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Baps - a guilty pleasure
"A bap is, at its simplest, a bread roll. At its more complicated, it is a tender pillow of dough, often made with milk, lard, and...
Mar 7, 2024
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Bland - some thoughts and a recipe
"Bland: lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. Unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid." Oxford Languages...
Jun 16, 2023
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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...
Jun 1, 2023
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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...
May 24, 2023
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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...
Apr 29, 2023
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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 –...
Mar 21, 2023
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