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WHAT TO DO WITH A PUMPKIN
I have an increasing number of pumpkins in my garden - more than I or my guests shall be able to eat. So this evening...
- Cut the pumpkin into crescents - two per person, or three if narrow
- In a mixing bowl put olive oil, a raw egg, a generous amou
AUBERGINE & PASTA FEAST
My cooking is largely a matter of seeing what I have left in the fridge, safe and garden and putting it together one way of another. Here’s what I cooked this evening.
Ingredients
I aubergine, sliced
1 egg
2 or 3 cups of pasta - I’d got farfalle
3 t
HOW DO YOU DO YOUR COFFEE?
For a long time I used to use a cafetiere with a plunger. well, a number of them, in fact, because they were always breaking. The thin glass or whatever cylinder seems to be equipped with an autodestruct mechanism so that after a couple of years one
Read more…WHAT DO YOU EAT AT BREAKFAST?
I almost always have a cereal of some kind. I particularly like porridge - that’s what you call "oatmeal" if you are American - and have it about every third day. There are a lot of opinions about porridge. The original Scottish variety is made entir
Read more…ENJOYING THE COLD
My thermometer says that the outside temperature at the moment - 11.30am - is minus 4 centigrade. Goodness knows what it got down to last night. There are minutely small flakes of snow falling. They descend with a slow grace, like little fairies, the
Read more…ORANGE MOON RISING
This evening an orange moon, almost full, in the glistening sky of one of the coldest of nights. By morning there will be a heavy frost. The ice we can thank for the moon halo and the mellow light picking out the landscape with a dulcet magic that th
Read more…... AND FOR THIS EVENING'S MEAL: Mushroom & Parship Stir Fry
Ingredients
4 baby parsnips - wash, peel, cut into small pieces
1 large onion - peel, dice
4 large best quality French field mushrooms - peel, break into large chunks
3 dried figs - cut into very small morsels
A small handful of dried fruit and nut
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TARA & I GO FOR A NIGHTTIME STROLL
A Walk at Night
I finished my evening meal at about seven o’clock. At this time of year that is well past sunset. Tara the cat was out. I decided to go for a walk. I went out round the north end of the house, where there is a low wall. Although the sk
ELEVENSIES
Take a thin slice of rich fruit cake, squeeze on to it the juice of half a lemon - or as much as necessary to make the whole moist. Add fromage blanc (called fromage frais in UK). Eat in small mouthfuls with a tea spoon. Delicious. Goes very well wit
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