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Can an oven door explode? Yep.
Dressings
What’s in a dressing? Garner some great tips and some great salad combos.
Schnitzel von crumb
Get all the lowdown on achieving golden crunchy schnitzel.
Roasted Tomatoes with Fennel Seeds
Picking tomatoes green is one way of beating the birds!
The Ant-A-Thon
It looks innocent … until it is filled with spiders and ants!
The umbrella
Pretty umbrella, so innocent, but it caused a lot of stress!
Christmas countdown
Time to gather your nearest and dearest.
Mega media week
What a week!
A Cook’s Book
Nigel Slater’s new book is a real joy.
My first eggplant of the season
I’ve got the garden going again, and now I’m hanging out for my first feed of beans!
Thanks + giving = Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving – the true meaning of giving thanks. How to appreciate the good things in life.
Balancing act
How to choose the best kitchen scale.
Time to RAK
The week’s round-up of recipes, news and views.
But more importantly, it’s time to do a RAK (Random Act of Kindness)Time for strawberries!
Sweet, juicy and red – if your berries are not quite perfect, learn a few tips to help them on their way.
Berries with Halva & Maple Syrup
Pretty and posh – ice cream with berries, shaved halva & maple syrup. Yum!
Confessions of a solo wine drinker
I’d been poisoning myself!!!
Stirring the pot
Stirring the pot – sticking my neck out to say something important.
Bubble of one
Bubbles! A bottle of bubbly needs friends, unless it is Covid Lockdown. In that case, either buy a Champagne stopper, or drink the lot!
Uncorked
September chit-chat, recipes and pics.
Making memories
Best-ever Christmas Cake – with a lovely family ritual.
Spring might be here
Oh-oh. Cute as, but bad-ass.
Desperate to garden
Lockdown affects everyone, just in different ways. I don’t mind being alone, and like many writers, prefer it most of the time. Not having so many emails to deal with is a bonus. But I truly am desperate to garden. My little Podular housette is delayed, of course – the site is all ticked off and ready…
Who’s in your bubble?
I’ve got a friend. He’s a bit spiky and he’s very shy. Still, it’s nice to have someone pop by. I also have pheasants – they’re very noisy – rosellas (they’re squawky but colourful), ducks (extremely noisy but quite magnificent), dozens of rabbits (that’s probably a bad thing but their little ears poking up out…
Housette update
9th August It’s all about site preparation. Last week a big drill thingy arrived so I knew holes were on the agenda, and sure enough the digger turned up again and did one of the other jobs it does well, dig holes. Who knew? I thought they just scooped up stuff. A sleeve is wrapped…
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