Courgettes - a Retrospective

I was going to call this post "Courgettes - I've had a few" then realised that I'd already used that post title last year....

BBQ Ribs for the best weekend ever

We have a great local butcher.  The other week, I was in there and had my head turned by some mighty fine racks of ribs he had in the chille...

Slightly Spicy Mushroom Chard & Chickpea soup

So today didn't get off to a hugely auspicious start, what with being woken at 4.30 to the dulcet tones of Blue throwing up. Never a goo...

Pastry - and pasties

OK, so I don't want you to think I'm getting too big for my boots here, but allow me to whisper something *I may have cracked pastry...

Malted grain, multiseeded sourdough loaf - for friends

There, you see, I haven't forgotten all about bread, although I'm eating less of it in my attempt to fit into my clothes better. Tha...

So how many calories are there in a mushroom?

There's been a lot of cake recently. Red Nose Day brought it all on with it a cake decorating competition at school: He did it all himse...

& some mushy peas with that please

The mushy pea. Or, realistically, mushy peas. Once the mush has happened, it would be hard to find them in the singular. Like marmite, they ...

Trials of Dogs and Husbands - and a light but sophisticated supper ;-)

  Quite often, we save our big meal for the evening on a Sunday and spend the day doing exciting things like shovelling horse manure into th...