Summer brings colour; plump ruby tomatoes, earthy purple beets and jewel-like green peas. And that’s only the salad bowl…. The above rainbow of colour is smoked mackerel salad with beetroot, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, olives and egg with a vinaigrette dressing. A simple chickpea salad also managed to transmogrify itself into a vibrant explosion of purple andContinue reading “A season of colour”
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The Cats of Venice
Oh, to be a cat of Venice. To slink through the early morning fog of a deserted canal. To walk in the footsteps of a millenium; soft paws crossing the well-worn Venetian streets. To find a sun-kissed window sill, from which to doze and dream and watch the life of an ancient city pass by. Oh,Continue reading “The Cats of Venice”
Jamie Does…Venice
Yesterday channel four offered me such beautiful tv that I could have simply spent the whole evening in a vegetative state on the sofa. Yes, that’s right, the tv Gods combined my two favourite things: Jamie Oliver and Venice. Who could not be hypnotised by the down-to-earth Essex lad, as he energetically piles raddichio and zucchini ontoContinue reading “Jamie Does…Venice”
To The Table 