August Break 2025, Day 27: Recipe

Tonight’s dinner was a “use it all up” affair, no recipe involved, though it did lean heavily on a Nigel Slater recipe for courgettes with orzo and guanciale (it’s scrummy, you should try it.)

December REFLECTIONS 18: I said Hello To…

It has been a funny old year and I cannot claim to have said “Hello” to many new people in the past 12 months. One chance meeting does however stand out in my mind. I belong to a Facebook Group that concerns itself with cooking on the go – meaning by and large, in Motorhomes …

December Reflections 6: Ornament

If you had asked me about ornaments/ornamentation, I might have said that it was not a topic of interest. That would be an honest belief. However, having sifted through over 2,000 photographs from 2020, it would appear that I am almost an obsessive! How come that I never noticed this before?

…and we are back

We are home with our new van. Actually we arrived back at lunchtime yesterday – the intervening period filled with unpacking the van and doing the laundry. There remains much to do. I tried to keep up with Blipfoto as best I could and to keep a running commentary going whenever we had the necessary …

It’s in the bag

Thrift is winning today over calorie restriction and lunch will be pasta – using up a glut of mushrooms (must persuade Mr L that stuff not on the shopping list is absent for a reason and not because I forgot to put it on there) and a tub of cream that wandered home with him …

The Aga Can

It has been a while since we had an Aga update. I suspect this is largely due to the fact that when the warm weather arrived, we turned it off. I switch the hob on to cook most days but have not used the oven a great deal recently. Mr L says that the Aga …