Guest Post: The Mothership on life in the UK It's not just the speed of driving and the volumes of traffic in the UK that scare me, I panic now when I enter a supermarket here. I am over-awed at the out-of-town shopping facilities available now and the sheer array of foodstuff . I find no pleasure in having to make a choice from 20 types of washing powder or 25 different breakfast cereals. Neither do I find joy in being able to buy … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2007
Peanut Butter Cookies
I was at Lady W's again on Thursday, so she could go kiteboarding/househunting. The great news is that the Jigsaw Fiend is really making eye contact and smiling and, more importantly, has cracked the potty training. He is an absolute joy to be around. Whilst he was being tutored and Smiley Crawler was taking a brief (a very precise 45 minutes- he doesn't like to miss anything!) nap, I took the opportunity to use up some of the gluten-free flour … [Read more...]
Mascarpone- stuffed pork fillet
I bought a green exercise book when I was 19 in which I used to write recipes that I had tried, using other people's cook books because I couldn't afford my own. If they were good enough, they went in the book, and thus I built a great collection of recipes that really worked. For reasons I have been unable to fathom the book, and thus my most treasured recipes, has gone AWOL. I am quite desperate to find it again and am now having to conjure … [Read more...]
