Remember that Rudyard Kipling poem that ends with: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"?  My dad liked the classics - C...

To be honest, I'm not feeling the blog love at the moment.  What I mean is that it somehow seems incongruous and superfluous, but there ...

When I was a teenager, I used to make chocolate mousse the old-fashioned way with beaten egg whites, egg yolks and whipped cream.  So so ric...

Way back in 2013, when I started this blog, one of my first posts was for chocolate oat biscuits.  It starts: 'As today is such a grey a...

I confess now - almonds are not my favourite nuts.  They're a bit bland, a bit ho hum, but they are useful in baking.  And handy in plac...

Well, shall I say it?   Yes, go on!  The year is Marching on, and here we are in ...  well, March of course.  Makes me think of Alice in Wo...

Hands up those who've read any of Mark Kurlansky's books?  He is an American journalist and food historian, some of his bestsellers ...