Bonfire Night Parkin

November 5, 2016

Happy Bonfire Night! This is my third Guy Fawkes Day in England and, would you believe it, this is the …

Vegan Apricot Snack Cake

December 1, 2015

You know what I mean. Those neat (or perhaps not) files of copious magazine clippings. The sticky tabs festooning the …

March 24, 2015

March always means two things to me: daffodils and birthdays. Both my mum and brother have birthdays this month, only …

October 29, 2014

I mentioned earlier this year that my brother had given me Nigel Slater’s Tender as a birthday present. I always …

September 24, 2014

As that inimitable creation of British literature, Bertie Wooster, was wont to observe: “What ho! What ho! What ho!” Goodness, …