Flashback 12 months ago, to the day. This was me. I was three nights shy of welcoming Will into the world. It was the end of 40 Weeks of Feasting. I was harried. I was on the cusp of signing the deal for Cut the Carbs and madly testing recipes while listening to Paul […]
baking
There are occasions that call for blowouts. Blowouts of cocoa and booze, sometimes muddled together. If that’s what you need, then may I recommend this torte? As for me- I think I’ll have to abstain for a little while. I may have sipped a little too much from the celebratory cup. The book shimmied […]
It’s not that hard to please The Hungry One. Easy options; take him for a walk along a beach, put a strong flat white coffee within reach or give him a good chunk of sleep in a bed big enough to stretch out in. And when it comes to his birthday? Every year, it’s same […]
I lied. I totally lied. Last week I said that the first thing I was going to make in our new, shining oven/cooker was going to be Danne’s Ultimate Raspberry and Apple Crumble. Except it wasn’t. It wasn’t, because it turns out that after 32 odd years, I don’t know my Dad at all. It […]
We moved. Exhale. Some sources will cite moving house as one of the top five sources of stress; clubbed together with death, divorce, job loss and major illness (quick aside- surely birth, plumbing emergencies and protracted entanglements with the legal system should get a glimpse in there?) It was relatively painless. There were no oceans […]