From Arkansas to Missouri and Illinois then down to Florida...
A Christmas with a difference. First stop Chicago after a business class upgrade on BA (nice plane, poor service tbh) then on to...
Pride of Reading Awards 2015 - and on to 2016
So the Pride of Reading Awards are over for another year. Well so everybody thinks - in fact co-organiser Sally Swift and I are on to...
Smoked cheese pasta bake
I've been eating a lot of smoked cheese recently. Don't ask why - never ask anyone why when it comes to cheese. It's cheese right? Anyway...
Plum (or apple) cake
Baking is science, right? That's why I am not a great baker. I like to throw ingredients into recipes in a haphazard way. I always mean...
This just got sillier....
Journalists call late July/August the silly season. That's because virtually nothing happens and you end up running banal 'silly season'...
Salsa made with heritage tomatoes
My next project was using my home-grown heritage Tigerella tomatoes in a zingy salsa. The tomatoes have done really well this year -...