Stocking the freezer. This is serious business. If, in fact, your need is is so acute you have no energy for idle chat, scroll straight to the bottom for an excellent alternative to the cornucopia of bolognaise, moussaka and beef cheeks you have huddling next to your ice trays and vodka. If not, read on. […]
slow carb
It’s time for food in bowls. Food that whispers away on the hob and then is portioned out and enjoyed with a single piece of cutlery. Food that allows you to curl you knees up underneath you on the couch and nurse a glass of red wine. Fodder that is the consumable parable of a […]
Let’s talk about second breakfasts. I’m referring specifically to the snaking, raking hunger which seeps in when you’ve started the day at an ungodly hour. It might be because you’re demand feeding twins. It might be because your chubby 20 mth old who had his first introduction to croup will only doze through the night […]
There’s a great line in one of my favourite 90’s films; ‘I never did mind about the little things’. I’m not a big one for violence – real or simulated. (The Hungry One now refuses to watch Game of Thrones with me. He says my squeamish squirming is too distracting. Meanwhile, I would quite like […]
Change is not something I’m good at. Growing up, my sister would rearrange the furniture in her bedroom up to three times a year, relishing the new spaces and angles it opened up. I never once willingly elected to move my bed from its nook against the far right wall. I take comfort in […]