January 10th, 2012
Summer time and the livin’ is easy…
Unless you’re a vegetarian at a barbecue (or so I’ve heard from my meatless mates).
“Sure there’s veggie patties and soy sausages” they say to me, resignedly, “but it’d be so nice – just for once – to be the one with an enviable portion of food instead of the poor sod with a disintegrating tofu burger because someone mistook silken for firm.”
(And yes, I know nobody really talks like that, but I’ve a habit of paraphrasing badly).
…continue reading miso mushrooms with polenta
September 11th, 2011
Tell you what, internet, I’ve missed you.
Oh I know, you’re probably thinking I say that to all the new-ish technology that’s about these days (and you probably have every right to) but you know what, I did. Truly. More than I ever expected.
It certainly wasn’t intentional. I mean, nobody starts a blog with the intention of leaving it untended and utterly neglected for the better part of a season (where did Winter go?) but then I had this string of absolute kitchen failures. Things got burnt. Ingredients were left out or too much was thrown in. For a while, everything tasted like soy. And whilst family and friends were not all that fussed either way, I was.
…continue reading shaved brussel sprouts
October 5th, 2010
It was a rainy weekend.
I really, almost desperately, wanted it to be sunny. To be able to sit in speckled light on the grass. To while a Sunday afternoon away on a soccer pitch. To take photos of beautiful people wearing beautiful outfits and eating beautiful food in the park. Soaking up the Vitamin D.
D for daylight. And dresses. And dancing.
…continue reading tomato & ricotta tart
September 7th, 2010
They say time flies as you get older.
And, if the last month or so has been anything to go by, I’m certainly aging rapidly. Because I’m fairly certain that just yesterday I was ensconced in a pair of trackies and a hoodie celebrating a frosty birthday over ice-cream cake and swearing I wouldn’t last til Spring.
But here we are, and here I am well and truly in September (and having dated all of my filing for the last month with “April” – sorry Rob).
…continue reading porcini & pea risotto
