Finally got the layout finished with the completion of the four (slightly) raised beds. In the final analysis (for this season at least) I decided not to permanently fix them down with corner pegs as [more…]
Here is a quick and easy meal to make one evening which is easy to do, using mainly inexpensive ingredients and very little effort. The recipe was one from my mother. Being a child of [more…]
This is a Winter Dish, but if you live in the Land of Eternal November, who cares? You need: fresh leeks French or French-style slices of ham, as many as you’ve got leeks Salted butter [more…]
There have been reports in the press recently about the approval of insects as an ingredient in the human food chain. I have no objection to people eating insects – John the Baptist famously lived [more…]
You have my dearest lady to either thank or blame for this one. Reminiscing about Xmas at her parents as a child, she has often waxed lyrical about these things called pickled clementines – which [more…]
Back in October (before Goldman Sachs Sunk became PM), part 1 of the 2022 Christmas Cake creation was published, see here. Since then our new leader has shown himself to be nothing more than another [more…]
Cream of Lettuce Velouté de Laitue Nota Bene: all translations into French are intended for you to impress your guests and make them believe they are dining at a posh restaurant. You will be henceforth [more…]
It’s a somewhat inclement Sunday morning approaching the end of October, the lawn which just a few short weeks ago was dead and brown is now lush and green but under an inch of water [more…]
It’s that time of year again, the strawberry beds offer up the odd lusciously red but sad, sour, berry. The courgettes are having a final spurt. The tomatoes, apart from the odd couple of plants [more…]
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