Marginally relevant – someone on Twitter was saying he went for his COVID jab and the medics were calling themselves the Pfizer Chiefs.

Also marginally relevant (and I may he mentioned this before), I once saw […]

So you’re after a blorum quorum?

Yes. Mostly North European with an exciting smattering of North African.

Hand pockets at the side, yes.

I’ve got one that looks remarkably like that, right down to the silver poppers, but in navy blue. Came from Marks & Sparks.

No Shipbuilding?

Oh me too. But every so often a new cookbook comes into my life and a couple of recipes stick and then get adapted in various ways. The most recent one is Coconut and Sambal by Lara Lee, which is Indonesian and […]

Or wild garlic.

This time of year in Cornwall the hills are alive with wild garlic, also known as ramsons. Always something to look forward to when we lived there. The Cornish cheese Yarg comes wrapped in wild garlic leaves.

I would be distressed if my modest sally* annoyed you, Moose. Just an arch shorthand** for ‘things you like to cook’.
*Lovely girl.
**Lovely boy.

Star anise is amazing, isn’t it? Just been reading about it and it says here that it deepens the flavour of coffee. Might have to try that tomorrow morning!

@chrisf, egged on by the Light, I made this tonight, and it was sensational! I’m curious: did you make it up out of your own brain, or does it come from a book?

Folkestone town centre is being hollowed out like everywhere else. Debenhams has closed, not that I ever went there except to gaze in wonder at the amazing Art Deco staircase. But as Bellows said up there it will […]

Five! Saw them live too.

You’re probably all wondering what ‘trying tomato sure’ means. I have no idea, ask Apple.

Crikey! Maybe if my dad had produced this I’d have done better in my A-levels.

Yes!

Your proper Sunday roast is the food of the gods, don’t do yourself down Nick. Not much call for it here in Oz, but I’ve always found it exhausting trying tomato sure everything gets on the table at the same time.

No use to me or Junior, but it’s easy to get here too.

I love making soup – the pretty much all start off in the same place, but end up in so many different places.

I’m an avowed beetrootophile, so that’s going on the list. I went to a vegetarian restaurant at the […]