Reflections in, on and round about…with a lot of cooking on the side
I have mentioned that I have a love-hate relationship with brassicas, but I think that, at last, I'm growing up. I've had to because we grow them - a lot - and I've had to think of creative ways of dishing them up. In the last three or so months, we've had more broccoli, cauliflower and … Continue reading Getting brave with Brassicas
I have flirted with vegetarianism on and off for about thirty years, particularly when I lived alone - which I have done, not unhappily, on and off, until I finally settled down with Tom. One of the first, if not the first, recipe book I bought, was the A - Z of Vegetarian Cooking in … Continue reading Veg-ing out
Both my parents grew up in the UK in the Second World War: Mum in Oxford, where her mother took in evacuees and then later also billeted soldiers. Dad grew up in Glasgow, and with his sister, Belle, evacuated to a poultry farm . Consequently, we grew up constantly hearing, "waste not, want not". Little was thrown … Continue reading Waste not, want not – I