[There are many pretty photos of the process, over on my original Facebook post - https://www.facebook.com/chaz.brenchley/posts/10154494256046323 - which I will try to remember to port across to make this pretty too, but for the moment I'm just slamming ( Read more... )

Corned beef, people: it is two different things, depending. To the British, it comes in cans and is a kind of disintegratory beefy spam, also occasionally sliced and battered and fried into fritters. None of this is any good at all, but this was my only experience of corned beef prior to California ( Read more... )

So various things have happened, personal and travel-related and such, and relatedly or otherwise, I have been neglecting this journal shamefully ( Read more... )

...except that these days, actually, one does ( Read more... )

For some inexplicable reason, our local acquaintance (m'wife included) continue to find my buns hilarious ( Read more... )

For lack of a jam-pan, enter my favourite stovetop utensil. A wok is splendidly the right shape for jam-making. Just don't try to pour out of it; I find that not to work so well ( Read more... )

So we have all these strawberries. It can happen, hereabouts ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner will be a shrimp salad with mushrooms and bacon and broccoli and French beans and spinach leaves and asparagus and avocado and baby tomatoes, all tossed in a lemon and garlic dressing. I invented this last weekend, and it was delicious, and on the way to the store just now I was just thinking "if I ever do write that cookbook, I'm ( Read more... )

Thanks to Jeannie (thanks, Jeannie!), we had lamb (duh!)* for non-yogic dinner last night. Slow-baked with Indian spices, because hullo, mere awards aren't going to shift my palate westward ( Read more... )

In Mac's eyes, it seems, cuddles are no substitute for porks. No substitute at all ( Read more... )