It’s been a weekend of baking and cooking for Jay’s birthday. He had some specific requests for things plus we needed to get the sausages and baps for the proper “hot dogs”, ie not with boil in the bag frankfurters but real sausages and decent bread...
Read morePersonally, I have never been a great fan of lasagne even if it is one of those firm family and probably national favourites. But then again, I don’t like spaghetti bolognaise. I am in a minority of 1 versus several hundreds of millions of people i...
Read moreFor many, the sign of summer is the first swallow or the sound of a cuckoo or the sound of cricket being played or perhaps Glastonbury of the Summer solstice. For me, it is samphire. Samphire is one of those truly old foods from the wild that peopl...
Read moreAs you walk along the long aisles of soft drinks in shops, it’s like hunting for a needle in a haystack to find real drinks that aren’t made with chemicals and don’t contain artificial sweeteners. Even such national treasures as Schweppes Tonic Wate...
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