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On a Love Affair with Lisbon

The man & I spent a long weekend in Lisbon recently. Just the 2 of us; no kids. It has to happen occasionally.

I had been to Lisbon once before. The first time I really had no idea what to expect and was completely captivated by the place. It was January, cold and damp in [...]

You are officially 2 years old today. That’s 731 days (as we are in the midst of a leap year). That’s quite a milestone and we must celebrate, since I must rather shamefully admit that I don’t think we celebrated or even acknowledged your first birthday. So first of all…

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY!

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On Not Reinventing the Wheel

When I was thinking about how to present this post I realised that I was likely to come across as rather fickle. Or as I prefer to think about it, “taking a balanced view”. Seeing both sides of the issue. Yes, both of those sound much better than “fickle”. More mature & grown up (although [...]

On Courgettes (too many of them)

We went camping, and it was great. The weather was completely mixed, but we discovered (happily) that our tent holds up admirably in conditions involving torrential rain! The kids developed a love of crabbing and we spent endless hours trying to entice them (the crabs, not the kids) with various kinds of bait. We saw [...]

On Pakoras

I made pakoras the other day. Not because I was doing a tasting for a client. Not because I was trying out a new recipe. No, I made pakoras simply because I really like them! They’re not something I make often. I don’t have a fryer at home, and I find the whole process of [...]

On Pizza Night

Hawaiian with olives – before

Last night was pizza night. Generally pizza night is Saturday night, but recently Saturday evenings have been tied up with other things. This past Saturday I was busy making sure 70 people were well fed and happy. Hectic, but fun. No pizza that night though. On pizza night we make [...]

On the Perfect Chocolate Brownie

I’ve got brownies on the brain. At work we make a lot of brownies, and this week we’ve gone into a bit of brownie overdrive. There could be worse things I suppose – I’d much rather make hundreds of brownies than hundreds of tuna mayonnaise sandwiches, for example (but that may be because I can’t [...]

On the Nutella Cake (15/01/10)

I have just make a cake filling that is to die for. I’m making a hazelnut torte for a friend’s birthday next week, but thought a prototype would be useful (and also give me a dessert to take tomorrow night when we have dinner with friends)! Anyway, the cake is a flourless hazelnut cake. The [...]

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