It’s so unfair… this is the lovely, long Easter weekend and we were planning to go North for a family get-together and I have a rotten cold. I can’t think straight, my tonsils are swollen, my chest is rattling and I feel like death warmed up. We can’t go home and inflict this on everyone [...]
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I remember when I was younger, before I learnt how to cook, I used to think it was perfectly sensible to open a can of soup. I really had no idea how easy it was to make soup, nor how much tastier it could be. I grew up in the decades that considered the launching on [...]
The Bear and I live on the top of a hill, which is, itself, at the top of a series of hills. We look down on the city below us and the view is always fantastic. We have a park at the side of the gardens and it is always a good place to walk around. In [...]
As I lumber my large and ungainly way into January and prepare to go back to work, I make a start on the diet. My cunning plan to emerge as slender as a supermodel is based around eating tasty but sensibly low calories breakfasts and lunches and then having something truly delicious, yet very low calorie [...]
I bought a bacon shank while I was out because I had a fancy for pea and ham soup…. and because I haven’t been paid since September, I am being very cautious with what is left of my cash. What could be better, then, than a thick and savoury soup, where the ingredients come to [...]
… nothing better when you are feeling low and ill. And there’s nothing better for your bank balance that making a meal from scraps and leftovers. It’s flu season and people are dropping like flies. What we need is soup.. chicken soup. Apparently it really does work! First thing, get your chicken. Now you can [...]
After gouging out the seeds and making snacks of them the other day, I really had to get a move on with the rest of the pumpkin and thought pumpkin soup would be the answer. Besides I wanted to make a Jack O’Lantern with it, ready for Halloween. (When I was young, in the far North [...]
So. It’s cold. I’m bored and then H rings to tell me I have some temping work when I can work again. That cheers me up immensely but I feel even happier when H says she has been reading this blog. And she has a request – H wants soup, mushroom soup in particular. Well, what [...]
When I first started cooking for the Bear I would assure him that whatever I was doing, it was merely the work of moments. You know how it is when you have just met someone? You want to spend as much time with them as possible……and you also want to impress them with your speed [...]
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