The wind has begun to conduct the clouds in a new, brisk symphony. It’s easy to see where Vivaldi got his inspiration for tuning in his music with the changing seasons. For now the afternoons glow with a golden light and the last strands of summer warmth are stolen away by an ever earlier sunset.Continue reading “It all starts with vegetables…”
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A Sea For All Seasons
As a child, the seaside was everything I could ever long for and more. The seafront would change wherever we went, whether it be the arcades of Great Yarmouth’s promenade or the prim tea shops of Southwold, however, those white horses galloping towards the shore would always remain the same. Maybe if I’d ventured downContinue reading “A Sea For All Seasons”
Chocolate almonds
Almonds are sun dyed Moroccan markets; they’re the frangipane on a perfectly British Bakewell tart. They’re spring in some foreign climes, green, fresh, fragrant and juicy. They’re the sweet decadence of a rich Christmas cake and the chewy whisper of a light as a feather macaroon. Almonds are for me, the king of all nuts.Continue reading “Chocolate almonds”
Sometimes you have to look through the rain…
It’s been raining. A lot. Last week London was glossed with a grey tint. Its lungs gurgled with water running into drains and the trees’ green leaves remain unnoticed by the folks who trundled past, heads ducked, umbrellas up. When we got home we bypassed the salad and strawberries and whacked on the oven, althoughContinue reading “Sometimes you have to look through the rain…”
Coffee cake
It’s quite extraordinary how prospects of intense revision sessions, early nights and hearty countryside walks can turn into a bowl full of flour, a couple of cracked eggs and a Coffee Cake in a blink of an eye. Revision during holidays never works. I think I should stop pretending it does to save myself theContinue reading “Coffee cake”
Ultimate chocolate cake
Those early birds among us not only catch the worm, they get to run their fingers through the first threads of the day; watch as the faint breath of light grows stronger and then smile, as finally the morning breaks and becomes that solid, reliable thing that we all know (and that a fewContinue reading “Ultimate chocolate cake”
Roast vegetable salad
Life in London is a thrashing, never tiring beast of a thing. Even when I’m sitting in my fairy light twinkling room, I know there’s always reading to be done, articles to be written and sleep to be caught up on. An exam is forever leering round the corner and my babysitting job creeps upContinue reading “Roast vegetable salad”
Chiles en Nogada
My time spent in Mexico last year was in a word, incredible. It was a month of discovery, reward and realisation. I made friendships with people who for their own unique reasons were pulled towards Mexico – to that little city nestled in the rippling peaks of the Sierra de Guanajuato. Whether it was toContinue reading “Chiles en Nogada”
The Morning Ritual
I can honestly not think of a better way to start the morning than with opening my window as far as it will go (precisely 2.5 inches) and breathing in the sweet London air: wet tarmac infused with that heady scent of – how you say? – Grey. Beautiful. This window does not condoneContinue reading “The Morning Ritual”
London Through the Eyes of Dickens
Read Dickens and then go, explore London. Suddenly, the fog will not only cover the Thames, it will suffocate it, smother, shroud it. It will blur the lines of politics and muffle the whispers of uprising emanating from Parliament. It will drown the great river itself, clamour at Westminster Bridge and blanket that point where Wordsworth composed hisContinue reading “London Through the Eyes of Dickens”
To The Table 