This year was the first year I have worked on my birthday. I’ve sat exams on it and studied on it, but always managed to coincide it with a holiday so I’ve never actually been to work on it. One of the things about working on your birthday in Denmark (and as far as I […]
This is a simple comfort food recipe, perfect for a lazy Sunday dinner. It is adapted from my cookbook of the moment, Darina Allen’s ‘Forgotten Skills of Cooking’. I am slightly addicted to tarragon, I add it to just about everything, so a dish where it is the key flavour is my idea of heaven. […]
This is a recipe from Darina Allen’s ‘Forgotten Skills of Cooking’ which she advises to make when you have a ‘glut of onions’. I’m not really sure when you would find yourself with a glut of onions, I certainly never have, but did have a glut of leftover cooking red wine (an equally rare occurence) […]
This is a recipe from the Ballymaloe Cookery Course. It would probably cause an Italian baker to cry, but it does not require proofing, can be made, baked and served in 30 minutes, and tastes pretty damn good. It is a variation on Irish soda bread, so it is best eaten fresh.It is light and […]
Ok, fine, I will acknowledge that if I were actually to have a choice about what I brought when stranded on a desert island, a cookbook would realistically be down the list. I love reading them, I genuinely read them like I would a novel, but I will grant that it wouldn’t be practical. But, […]
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