For me, there’s something so soothing about baking bread. I love getting out a big bag of flour, some yeast and some good salt and knowing you can turn it into something delicious. Those ingredients, by themselves, could never be a meal (unlike quite a lot of things we cook with) but together, in some [...]
Continue reading about Meatfree Monday – Baguette baked with cheese, tomatoes and peppers
As you will have noticed from the previous post about my balcony garden in the sky, one of the things I love to do is grow my own basil – one of the most aromatic and useful herbs there are. It saddens me when I see it in little pots in the supermarket. All you [...]
I love reading. I especially love reading food writing. I think there’s nothing better than reading the story behind the recipe. A recipe just set down by itself doesn’t grab me the way a recipe does when I get to know more about the cook… the reasons why they made that recipe and just how they [...]
As some of you know, my aunt passed away a few weeks ago. What you might not know is just how much of an influence she was on my life. When I started this blog, I told you how I had spent a lot of my life not cooking. I ate, obviously, but I got [...]
Continue reading about Maggie’s Lemon Drizzle Cake … an homage to my aunt
Because I have just got a new job (my contract arrived today) and my birthday is next week, we are having a couple of our dearest friends round for supper, to help celebrate. I don’t normally make puddings or desserts for everday meals but when I am cooking for friends, I always do something. This [...]
A couple of weeks ago I got the following email from a friend I have known for years… years and years. And I thought you all might like to see what she said, because we are, of course, not only massively interested in delicious cooking but we are all supportive of Fairtrade. So, read on [...]
Continue reading about Fairtrade Fortnight (22 Feb – 7 March 2010)
Even though it is the weekend, I still wake up before 6am, just as I do for work. And, just as I always do, I go, quietly, upstairs to our kitchen to make coffee and look out at the city below us. It’s been snowing again and even though we are right at the top [...]
January, eh? There are many downsides to January – bad weather, enforced dieting because of Christmas excesses – but there are some good points. Sales, for one. And with the terrible state of the economy, the sales start on Boxing Day, if not sooner. I had been wanting to go to the Le Creuset shop for [...]
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