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Baby Boozy Fruit Cakes (and some news)

05:22 PM, August 11, 2013 |

It feels like Christmas.

It feels like Christmas, but it’s not. Yet we’ve still been given the world’s greatest present.

Introducing William Frank Haschka; Will for short.

Born: 10.44 am on the 8/8/2013, clocking in at 3.175 kg, or the equivalent of 7 1lb bags of flour.

He responds well to brief. It was just the day before that I’d said it was pumpkin time, that the party was over. We marked the close of ‘Forty Weeks of Feasting’ when he advanced to the size of a round, large root vegetable with a pumpkin and chickpea curry.

And wouldn’t you know it, at exactly 12.01 am on the 8/8/2013, just one minute past the end …

Pumpkin and Chickpea Curry

08:29 AM, August 7, 2013 |

40 weeks of feasting, feeding a crowd, In the kitchen, Indian, pulses, vegetarian

It’s pumpkin time. It’s what they said to Cinderella. The clock struck midnight. The party is over. It’s time for it all to come to a close.

Nb, if someone could pass that message onto the large-burnished-winter-squash-sized stowaway that’s continually strumming on a a nerve that connects to my upper right thigh-I’d be most grateful.

It was two weeks ago that I first issued the ‘end of lease notification’. His tenancy was coming to a close. It was time to start packing up and wiping down the metaphorical benches. It started with herbs. Raspberry leaf extract – which rather than being delightful crimson nuggets I’d hoped for are in fact small capsules …

Raspberry, Apple, Almond Ricotta Loaf

06:59 AM, August 5, 2013 |

almonds, apple, baking, berries, cake, In the kitchen

There’s nothing like a solid friend. The sort who you can Skype at 7 am while you still have creases from a pillow wedged onto your cheek. The ones who offer to come over and sort through shipping boxes and sip a cup of tea, rather than go out for a spiffy lunch.

They’re the kind that cleaves of time and distance won”t wrinkle. You know you can pick up the phone after two years, or two hours and it will still be just the same. I think it comes from being cut from similar cloth and having a shared bank of shining memories.

This loaf cake is the spirit animal of …