New Year

Happy new year, folks. I hope you celebrated appropriately and that someone called you on new year’s eve and said, “Hey, happy new year, let’s go for a walk and have lunch tomorrow!” And that you looked at the weather forecast, saw that it would be cloudy, but dry and agreed to the plan. That’s [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Christmas Eve

Suzy and I celebrated Christmas Eve with Chinese takeaway tonight. The plan was to watch Love Actually too, but it turned out, I suppose unsurprisingly, that we can fill an evening with talking quite easily, so the DVD stayed in my bag. The Chinese food was delicious and we polished off a bottle of delightful [...]

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7 Days: Day 3 – Pumpkin massacre

This afternoon I’m turning my fingernails yellow as I chop, peel and cook 14.5kg pumpkin. The job should get done today, which is in sharp – and pleasant – contrast to the three tiring days the job took me for my last pumpkin harvest in 2007. Back then I had 32kg of pumpkin to deal [...]

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Jarlsberg bread

This is a staple of picnics and summer parties. Of course reading this blog, you won’t be surprised that I consider bread, cheese and garlic staples. The nutty taste of the Jarlsberg is so delicious that I thought I’d share this bread, perfect for a treat or social gathering. I think it originally came from [...]

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Chicken rolls

I made chicken rolls for our (early) Christmas picnic at the weekend. I’d made them before for our Royal Wedding picnic and the summer party and was very pleased with how they came out. This time I took photos of the process to share the Good Food recipe with you. Ingredients: 2 large chicken breasts [...]

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25/30: CDWM: My dessert

I wasn’t aware of any typical Mexican dessert until I watched a cookery show on TV, which introduced me to churros, little donut sticks that can be dunked in warm chocolate sauce. As I’d never tasted, never mind made them before, I had a trial run and tried out various methods of reheating them too. [...]

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22/30: CDWM II: My main course

Having practised the quesadillas in advance I knew I needed to put more filling between the two tortillas. More constipation cheese for everybody! I’d done a fair amount of preparation during the day, chopping, grating and crumbling and so when it came to constructing the dishes, I just had boxes full of things to sprinkle [...]

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19/30: CDWM II: My starter

Having already told you a little about the preparation I did for my Come Dine With Me evening, you know that I was getting ready for a Mexican evening. And that is why, when my guests turned up, I answered the door to them wearing my embroidered top from Ecuador and one of the four [...]

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