Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Food, Germany, Stuttgart, Weekly Events, Wordless Wednesday, photos on Aug 11th, 2010
A selection of photos from our visit to Stuttgart last week. Stuttgart seen from the viewpoint near the Rack Railway A Wordless Wednesday post
Posted in Books, Fiction, Food, Teaser Tuesdays, Weekly Events on Jul 27th, 2010
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Share a couple or more sentences from the book you’re currently reading. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the [...]
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. For more information, see the welcome post. It’s been hot and sunny here all last week, but today it’s been raining on and off all [...]
Posted in Cookery, Food, Weekend Cooking, Weekly Events on Jun 19th, 2010
Bread is one of my favourite foods. I’ve been baking my own bread for about 4 years now, using a breadmaker. I’ve tried making it by hand but all that kneading just defeats me and it is so much easier with a machine. It is very simple – you just put all the ingredients in [...]
Posted in Food, Musings, Non-fiction, Personal, Weekend Cooking on May 2nd, 2010
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. My food thoughts this weekend have been coloured by a passage I read in 100 Days on Holy Island: A Writer’s Exile by Peter Mortimer. He [...]
Posted in Cookery, Weekend Cooking on Apr 3rd, 2010
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. As it’s Easter my contribution this week is Simnel Cake. This recipe is from Marguerite Patten’s Everyday Cook Book in Colour, which was first published in 1968. It [...]
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. This week I’m writing about chocolate – or more precisely Green and Black’s Chocolate Recipes. On the front cover: Chocolate makes otherwise normal people melt [...]
Posted in Cookery, Weekend Cooking on Mar 13th, 2010
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. For more information, see the welcome post. Salmon and Broccoli Fishcakes, or how to make a mess in the kitchen. Simply steam the salmon in [...]
Posted in Books, Cookery, Food, Non-fiction, Weekend Cooking on Mar 6th, 2010
Last week for my Weekend Cooking post I wrote about Italian cookbooks, so this week I thought I’d stay on the Continent and write about my French cookbooks. I only have four – two over 20 years old and two more recent. Three are by British food writers and one by a French woman writer. [...]
Posted in Cookery, Food, Personal, Weekend Cooking on Feb 27th, 2010
I’ve been watching BBC 1′s series The Hairy Bikers – Mums Know Best, which has made me think about my family’s recipes. I have my Mum’s recipe book. She didn’t really need recipes as much of what she cooked was by instinct. Even though the recipes give quantities in pounds and ounces she didn’t use [...]
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