Cooking
How to cook rice perfectly
I know. I know. After covering a multitude of different exotic meals that one can rustle up in the kitchen, it seems a real anticlimax to compose an article on how to cook pretty much [more…]
Food
Cooking
A Retro Sausage Extravaganza
Another from my Mum’s collection of cut out and keep from the Woman’s Friend, back of a sauce packet or wherever she picked it up from. Takes about 25 minutes faffing, 45 minutes to cook. [more…]
Cooking
How to cook the best Ruby Murray – Ever
This article title is deliberately disingenuous, not just because of the liberal use of Cockney rhyming slang, but as everybody knows, great food is a very subjective matter. A dish that would delight your average [more…]
Cooking
Cooking
Vanilla Ice Cream Terrine with Ginger, Chocolate and Salted Caramel
1 litre vanilla ice cream 100g stem ginger biscuits/cookies 100g dark chocolate 125g salted caramel cream sauce You can buy salted caramel cream sauce or make your own in ten minutes. To make your own [more…]
Cooking
Store-cupboard essentials and techniques
Far be it for a GP author to ever admit defeat, but in this particular instance, I must bow to the inevitable, once the full extent of the challenge becomes clear. Grimy Miner, you know [more…]
Cooking
21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)
In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]
Arts
The Sweet Shop
As a young child in the 1950 I used to love to visit the sweet shop to spend some of my pocket money. One of my favourite places was called the Kabin, a very small [more…]
Arts
Apple Cranberry Stuffing
This is an easy to make apple cranberry stuffing I typically make for the holidays. The flavors are balanced so that the cranberry isn’t overpowering. We use dried cranberries because they aren’t overpowering. I don’t [more…]