I have learned that a roast chicken is one of Mr P’s love languages. Srsly. Unfortunately I always forget this fact until I actually roast a chicken, and he starts voluntarily doing The Crap Jobs We Both Hate and hanging out washing and all sorts of things. I mean, I could probably use roasting a […]
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I really, really, really hate the fact that pretty much everything essential to being a vaguely content and functioning individual is now an aspirational video on some kind of social media. A quick jump into the shower with whatever shower gel was on offer that floated my boat (always, always, always the citrus smelling ones […]
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I promise not to wang on so much that you have to scroll for a solid five minutes just to get to the actual recipe, but sweetcorn fritters were the first thing I made for a breakfast club. It was quite pioneering, way back when, the breakfast club. I mean, avocados weren’t quite such a […]
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I mean, we’ve taken Hugo away a few times, the first to my sister’s via the Lake District when he was 7 weeks old, Ibiza when he was 5 months old and England again in November, but those things weren’t CITY BREAKS. And I’m not going to lie, as it loomed closer, I really started […]
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So then, a new website, in a very lowkey sort of a way. At last. I mean, I’ve done more than my fair share of big, excited ‘I’M BACK!’ type posts over the last wee while. Actually, the last few years. I first started to think about rejigging things around here way back in Spring […]
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I promise I don’t think that you actually need a recipe for a baked potato. But you almost certainly need a reminder to make a baked potato, for it is a truly glorious thing. Yes, you need to get it cooking ages before you actually want to eat, which is very annoying as it is […]
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I genuinely think this might be the thing I cook the most. I know food writers say this kind of thing all the time, and if they actually ate what they said they did as often as they say they do, there would be literally no meals left for eating out or trying something new […]
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Once upon a very long time ago, I took a solo trip to London and ended up having the most fabulous lunch at the bar of Barrafina where I was introduced to sherry for the first time and my wide eyed enthusiasm for it all was rewarded by them simply asking my budget (not all […]
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This one is inspired by nothing except the desire to make a tasty dinner that is easy. If I was aiming to romanticise a trip to India with paneer in a tandoor oven, I would mention that shashlik does seem to be shorthand for a kebab with peppers and onions, but I’m not even sure […]
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I am in a scone season of life right now. Maybe it is the slippery slope to middle age, maybe it is the fact I could access a garden centre easily on crutches that time I buggered my ankle, maybe it was the beige comfort I found in them when pregnant, maybe it is generosity […]
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