This is a modified Nigella Lawson recipe. I’ve halved the ingredients she specified in hers, and this was still enough to feed us for ages. ‘Us’ meaning Adam and I. The kids weren’t all that enthused. Their loss, really. Ingredients White or savoy cabbage, 500g before trimming 1 carrot 1 sticks celery 2 spring onions…
My goodness, I’ve eaten a lot of these in my lifetime. I mean, a lot. I love them. And now I know how to make them, this could be a little dangerous! Ingredients 3/4 cup plain flour 1/3 desiccated coconut 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar 90g melted butter 395g can sweetened condensed milk 60…
There will be no recipe today. This turkish delight making experience is being mentioned purely for the sake of posterity and accountability, but rest assured in every other sense it is being struck from the record. All memories shall be suppressed. I mean, look at it. This doesn’t even look like turkish delight, does…
I loved Strawberry Shortcake – the cartoon character – when I was little, and even think I’ve eaten the real deal (the cake, not a plastic figurine) once. But I’ve never made it. A girlfriend recently dropped over a bag of delicious cherries she’d picked and I thought – well, that could work! Ingredients 1…
Okay, I’m going to start plain and simple: zucchini slice. Staple of lunchboxes, healthy party food option and generally darn tasty fare. I’ve always liked it, even as a kid. But I’ve never made it before. There’s probably a hundred versions of it – but this is mine. Ingredients 2 zucchinis grated 1 carrot grated…
One thing – well, the only thing – that has long bothered me about the ‘ 1 recipe a week for a year’ challenge is that it’s not done yet. It was supposed to be finished by last October. But then I decided to put a book out, didn’t I? (That’s my excuse and I’ll stick…
Days 6 & 7 I’m going to be honest here by admitting I didn’t know much about Macau before arriving there. Yes, I knew it was a very old Portuguese trading port. Yes, I knew it was also very big on gambling. It also featured as a locale in the latest Bond movie, Skyfall. In…
Day 3 Broken arm and hospital Days 4 & 5 As you can see, I was a little tired … … and yet, we pressed on! Saturday afternoon was spent wandering around the central district of Hong Kong. The biggest I had for wanting to explore Hong Kong, why I put it on my living…
Days 1 & 2: Disneyland How to become a ‘first family’ Being time-whacked travellers, having only arrived at our hotel late the previous evening, we were up early and at the gates well before the opening time of 10am. This put us up near the beginning of the queue on the left hand side of…
