Apologies if my website, Twitter and Facebook fan page aren’t as frequently updated as usual but I had an arrival on Sunday – Maximus the Italian Spinone pup. He’s a grand little boy and getting on well with Murphy (my Irish Setter) but as I’m sure you’ll know he’s bound to take up plenty of [...]
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“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.” Louis Bromfield, American novelist (1896-1956) Oh sunshine where have you gone? The weather has been a little challenging of late, to say the [...]
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Unless you have been hiding yourself away from the foodie scene these last few years I’m sure the hype surrounding the St. John Restaurant cannot have escaped your notice. The offer of a meal there would I’m sure be as poll dividing as Marmite – love it or hate it, sure, nose to tail eating [...]
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When Jim Lahey’s recipe for no-knead bread first hit the New York Times, it sparked a massive bread-baking frenzy. Anyone and everyone began talking about home baking and the fact that this bread required little attention making it so adaptable to everyday life. Everyone seemed to love the no-knead bread, including me, alas when Lahey announced [...]
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Christmas in New Zealand and Australia sees the beginning of six weeks or more of summer holidays for school children and a lot of peoples annual holidays, so instead of curled up all toasty in front of a fire we are off toasting in the sun. Traditions here are similar to the Northern Hemisphere, well, [...]
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In the Netherlands, Christmas is very much a family get-together, that isn’t traditionally centred around food. It’s a time of meeting relatives, playing board-games and of course, on Boxing day, a trip to the nearest furniture mall. In the old days, if you were posh enough, you would eat goose or game for Christmas. If [...]
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Following on from my Feed The World BloggerAid Cook Book give-away, I am ready to announce the winner! Thank you to all who participated and spread the word about this worthy cause. It really is much appreciated and I truly hope that by hosting this give-away I have in some small way actually helped to [...]
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