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Holidays with kids
The lovely description of his normal family life by our Flying Hippo (Humdrum and proud!) inspired me to put fingers to keyboard (no, The Princess does not put her paws to keyboard, that’s beneath her!) [more…]

Humdrum and proud!
I can’t really moan about my lot – I have a good middle management job, a teacher wife of 15 years and three kids under 8. I think we have done a reasonable job with [more…]

Baking bread with Going Postal
With Christmas now history, I put to you, what has been your most useful/favourite Christmas present in recent years? For me, it was not last year’s set of kitchen knives and four cans of special [more…]

The Old Grey Wankpuffin Test
© EJ 2016

The GP Advent Calendar of Cuisine – LetEnglandShake’s Game Terrine – H F-W
Any or some of these selection of lean game meat, about 1kg/2¼lb in all, which could include: breasts of pheasant (hung about 5 days) breasts of pigeon breasts of duck or other wild fowl saddle [more…]


The GP Advent Calendar of Cuisine – Geek’s Finger Lickin’ Good Fried Chicken Recipe
Ingredients: 2/3 tablespoon salt 1/2 tablespoon thyme 1/2 tablespoon basil 1/3 tablespoon oregano 1 tablespoon celery salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 tablespoon dried mustard 4 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons garlic salt 1 tablespoon ground [more…]
