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The Monday Treat: Blackberry and Apple Crumble for a snow day

Winter is upon us. Not Christmas. Not New Year. But Winter, grinding away the days. There was more snow this week, and more predicted for next week. It’s cold outside, baby, and all I want to do is curl up … Continue reading

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The Wednesday Tipple – Tree Trimming Punch (and vanilla star cookies)

Walking home from choir through midtown I pass a veritable forest of Christmas trees. Some, like the one at Rockefeller that presides over the skaters and the shoppers, are a joyful cacophony of light and sparkle. Others, guarding the banks … Continue reading

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Apple pierogi with warm apple compote

Last Hanukkah our friends Ingyin and Yosi cooked us the greatest latkes in the world and then promptly moved to Abu Dhabi to set up the new NYU physics department. Just the two of them and a whole bunch of … Continue reading

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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Detox Coronation Turkey Salad

Yes, it’s been thanksgiving, but there’s also been a lot of Royal engagement fun occurring. Kate’s blue dress has sold out, the Tesco fake blue dress has also sold out, and the dress in Macy’s that I was intending to … Continue reading

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The Monday Treat – Tasty spiced apple cupcakes and an extremely tasteful manicure

It finally happened; after weeks of obsessing about pumpkins, carving them, buying mini ones to decorate windowsills, roasting them, boiling them, pureeing them I may have reached my pumpkin quota. It was all going so well. My skin hadn’t turned … Continue reading

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This dinner is unlikely to get you laid – sorry – Thanksgiving by a Brit – Butter Roast Turkey, served with roasted pumpkin, sweet and fingerling potatoes, green beans, apple stuffing and cranberry sauce

I’m pretty sure that Thanksgiving Dinner never got anybody laid. All the carbs and all the family – it’s a killer combination. Engaged? Possibly. Divorced? So I’m apocryphally told. But laid? Nope. The best we can hope for is that … Continue reading

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The Wednesday Tipple – Spiced Cranberry Apple Cooler (with endive autumn salad)

Jon, returning from 3 hours of art class drawing naked middle aged models was tired and in need of succor. Since the building water tank has just been cleaned and the water is currently gurgling coffee-colored spume into the sink, … Continue reading

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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Apple Crumble

Today is the 11th anniversary of my husband and I getting together. It happened on Bonfire Night, after walking to the Radcliffe Arms pub for dinner with our friends and watching the fireworks being set off in back gardens all … Continue reading

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The Monday Treat – cinnamon pecan vanilla cheesecake with a hot toffee apple sauce

It was my birthday this weekend, and I celebrated with duck and pancakes with a side order of good friends down in Chinatown followed by champagne and cheesecake at home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love cake cake, and … Continue reading

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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Tarte Tatin and a brush with the New York City Fire Brigade

One thing that my London friends want to know about life in New York; is it true that people use their ovens for storage? The answer is a resounding yes. The picture at the top of this blog is my … Continue reading

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