One of the joys of blogging (both writing and reading) is that you get to know so many people and learn so much about food and recipes; triumphs and disasters and the passions that drive people to cook. Blogging provides us with a way to communicate with each other. We can share in what we cook and [...]
You know how some days can go wrong…. and keep on going wrong ? It´s as if the tone of the day has been set. Well, that didn´t happen to us. I went in to work, did what I had to, came home and started cleaning and packing… everything was done quickly and my small [...]
….. The Bear and I set off tonight for Argentina! I won’t be cooking but I will be eating. I shall tell you all about the delicious things we find on our travels from Buenos Aires, to the Iguazu Falls, to Salta, to Tucuman. We shall travel on Tren a las Nubes - the [...]
One of the lovely things about staying in hotels is that you feel entirely justified in eating what’s generally known as a full English breakfast. At one time (as a direct reflection of the harshness and rationing of the war years) English cooking was pretty dire and the best that anyone would say about it [...]
Caron was first to pick a number and a column… Page 99 of Australian Gourmet Traveller Annual Cookbook, 2008 is in the pasta section and the second column is papardelle. We’re making pasta! And the only ingredients are 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and 560gm “00″ durum wheat flour. Pappardelle is [...]
In my attempt to widen the variety of dishes I cook and also to introduce an element of randomness, I thought of the weirdly wonderful Cookery Lotto. I have lots of cookery books that I might read but really need to start cooking from. Thing is, I hadn’t really got round to doing anything – [...]
Right back in the beginning, when this blog started out, I knew that I would have to stretch myself. It’s easy, so very easy, to just stick to cooking what I normally cook when what I wanted was to see if I could do something different most days of the week. I thought that taking pictures [...]
Happy New Year to everyone…… I suppose there will have been many of us feeling slightly tired today. We had a fantastic night with our neighbours, with high jinks, merriment, champagne, cheering and competitive Wii playing. We undoubtedly behaved in a riotous fashion… and if it weren’t for the fact that all the neighbours were [...]
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