7 Days: Day 6 – Queen of the Prairie

Who needs a wide angle lens when you have a handle like this on the cooker? I call Mum’s new cooker the Queen of the Prairie after a song from the English version of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’s musical “Kristina från Duvemåla”. For the first Christmas in America Karl Oskar and the children surprise [...]

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7 Days: Day 5 – Making gingerbread

It’s that time of year when calories aren’t meant to be counted, so to go along with all the goodies Mum and I bought at the supermarket today, I’m making gingerbread biscuits. All the food is in, the presents are wrapped and so, with more snow due tomorrow, I feel as though I’m in for [...]

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7 Days: Day 1 – Balls

Here I am cooking yummy pork noodle balls for the Christmas picnic that in the end unfortunately had to be called off. The inches of snow that fell this morning thwarted Lauren and Suzy’s intentions to get here for our traditional picnic by the Christmas tree and though temperatures rose again and the snow was [...]

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Afternoon tea at The Dorchester

At the weekend we got dressed up and headed to London for afternoon tea at The Dorchester as my early birthday celebration. It’s a five star hotel on Park Lane – that is to say, worth a hell of a lot in a game of Monopoly – so it was fun to make ourselves a [...]

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A sweet gift

Back in the summer I did a small favour for my friend Stefan in Salzburg. Over the years we’ve kept each other informed of any news about our respective musical interests and it’s been handy for me to have an ear to the ground in Austria. In one email I tried to thank my “man [...]

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Pork noodle balls

This is the recipe for the pork noodle balls I made for my den-warming and have made previously for at least one summer party (which is when I took the photo). The recipe comes from Nigella Lawson’s “Feast”. And has a very funny name. Makes 25-30 75g medium dried egg noodles 250g pork mince 2 [...]

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