Melton Mowbray Pie
The good thing about Melton Mowbray is not only that it sounds like a place in Leicestershire, it actually is a place in Leicestershire. It's also…
festivities
Day of the Sausage
Much more so than strolling through Bangkok in a pale flared Pierre Cardin suit and smoking Sobranie cocktail cigarettes, making sausages has always defined…
Tenth Anniversary Dinner
Can you knock off work, get to the shops, attend to jobs like bathing child, and bang out a very respectable 10th anniversary dinner? Yes you can. Get…
Two deliveries and a sale
It's been quite a big fortnight for me and I mean quite big in the same way that a werewolf Sean Connery would be quite hairy (although not on top,…
A small person
As a believer in music as the companion of all good things in life, I've always been taken by Californian friend and how on the day his child was born,…
Pineapple
A lot of people underestimate the power of a little presentation to turn food, into an occasion, not me. PS If you anyone can fabricate a bar-sized version…
Another Sunday Roast
Mag's been put to bed so that means…Sunday roast. A few helpful things: Lamb You can make a nice lamb stuffing with (roughly) a cup of fresh…
New Year’s Eve Dinner 2006
Following on the heels of last year's New Year's Eve Dinner party for 11 we thought we'd try again with 16 and a n extra course in there. Sue…
A Moulinex Christmas
This was given to me by Carita's mum. I've only met her once but she was lovely enough to remember that I loved her crock pots and thought that I…
Trout and the State of play of the Cash free Economy
Four caught trout given to me by a friend on return from a trip down south, wrapped in silicone ties sent to me by a Flickr friend in California in return…