Salad days
As a schoolgirl, I worked in the Ladies' Separates department of Palmers in (Great) Yarmouth. I spent a lot of time standing to attention, being very polite and folding Dalkeith jumpers. It was an...
View ArticlePizza traybake
I love pizza and eat it all the time, especially while I am not doing a daily shop. Somehow pizza dough is easier and more satisfying to me than bread making - I think its the olive oil.
View ArticleSalad with nasturtiums and Alaskan red salmon
That summer of 1965 we disembarked at Haines on my sister's birthday. Father drove us along the 800 miles of partly surfaced highway to Anchorage, with an overnight stop at Tok. Moving home again. But...
View ArticlePotato curry
This simple curry was circulating around North London in the 1970s. It has no pretensions to be anything else.
View ArticleFish barbecue with Smokey* hot sauce.
Dodging the showers is easier when barbecuing for short periods. The steaks of wild trout shown here (line caught in a West Country river) take no time at all, and there is plenty of room on the grill...
View ArticleBreakout fish and chips
The first food (bar bread) I haven’t cooked myself since January came from Lucy’s Chips on the brilliant market. We sat on a bench with our backs to City Hall, bathed in late afternoon sunlight, gazing...
View ArticleLittle tarts
Sometimes a first course is needed. Or an appetiser. These little tarts are made with yeasted wholemeal pastry. The yeast leavens the pastry and turns solid crunchy wholemeal into an altogether lighter...
View ArticleOaty fruit crumble
Winding down supplies this week and running low on almost everything, I used up the last of the butter on this welcome bowl of fruitiness. There is a definite chill in the air and plenty of seasonal...
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