Hello from Lockdown London. I’ve unfortunately been experiencing something of a blogger’s block and, looking back at my last post, see that it is six weeks since I last posted. Not sure I’ve ever been silent on here for that long. I hope you’ve missed me! And, yes, we are still in lockdown. It’s been […]
So today we’re six days out of Lockdown 2. There’s a lot of shopping going on (and not just by me). It’s like everyone fears they are going to be locked up again soon so they’re trying to get all their Christmas shopping in. Seriously, yesterday I saw a guy carrying about 15 shopping bags. I’ve […]
Today I’m back in the kitchen, at last! Hasn’t been enough creative cooking going on in my house recently, time to change that. Having just got back from Spain I’ve got tortilla on my mind and as we were having friends round for drinks I thought I’d experiment by trying a baked, herby sort of […]
A heatwave has hit London…hooray. So it’s time for some summery food. Today I was inspired to make some biltong blinis using the beautifully juicy English strawberries that are around at the moment. I cheated and bought ready-made canapé blinis (why wouldn’t you!) from Sainsbury’s. Then all it takes is a little slicing and some […]
I’m very partial to a canape! I even made them for about 40 people one Christmas…never again, I tell you, I think I spent about three days in the kitchen. And from that I learned (besides not to volunteer for doing mass catering on my own)…keep canapes simple! Which is what I’ve done here. These […]
Now the sun’s shining again and a bank holiday’s on the way, why not invite some friends around for summer drinks and treat them to some tasty cheesy canapes? I know a lot of my bank holiday weekend is going to be (voluntarily) spent in my kitchen. Don’t feel sorry for me, it does lead […]