Back in New York, and back to work, with my new fancy London clothes in my newly re-organized Fall wardrobe. Primark. New Look. BHS. All the really great iconic designers feature. Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – Chianti and Anti Pasto
Back to New York with Jon, who evidently missed me because he’d filled the fridge with skim milk and yogurt, both of which I love, and he can totally live without. Also wine. Lots of wine. Continue reading
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The Monday Treat – Focaccia with grapes
If you lived in Tuscany last weekend, the chances are you would have been out celebrating the chianti harvest.
Apparently there’s a big knees up, with a lot of drinking and eating olives and trampling on grapes in vats.
“Seriously,†I asked my sister Sarah, who knows a thing or two about wine and has the exam certificates to prove it, “do people really crush grapes by foot?â€
“Yes,” came the reply.  “If they’re tourists.†Continue reading
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Salmon with foaming hollandaise sauce
Englishness continues as baby Emily is christened in the Parish Church in front of adoring family, friends and a set of great grandparents. Continue reading
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The Wednesday Tipple – Autumn Afternoon Tea, Blackberry Scones with Blackberry Jam (and nice cup of tea)
Immersed in Englishness, cup of tea in hand, I pillaged the brambles along the doctors’ fence at the back of my grandparents’ house, and I am now standing by the stove skimming scum from a batch of warm blackberry apple jam and waiting for a batch of scones to brown in the oven. Continue reading
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The Monday Treat – Autumn Afternoon Tea Time: Plum Cake
Back in London on the annual pilgrimage to the US Embassy to have my visa re-issued. Back to sleeping in my childhood bedroom, where creeper is already turning red around the windows, and I can watch the birds gathering in the branches of the holly tree, waiting for general consensus that it’s time to fly south. Continue reading
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – That’s Amore – Movie Night Heirloom Tomato Pizza
Given that a giant NASA satellite is about to hit the earth, now might be the perfect moment for serious thought, some sober and appropriate reflection. Possibly even philosophical or religious musings.
Or denial. Continue reading
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The Wednesday Tipple – Bloody Mary Tomatoes
“Is that woman seriously shooting up kittens in Union Square?†wondered a girl loudly to her friend at the entrance of WholeFoods. Continue reading
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The Monday treat – Roasted tomato preserve
Growing things has, on the whole, been less straightforward than we thought it would be.
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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Steak with blue cheese sauce
It will surprise no-one who knows Jonathan that his birthday meal of choice involved steak. Continue reading