19 February 2012

Pancake Day

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We have just had a day of preemptive pancakery. Batter was whisked (2 large jugs), pancakes were tossed (about 30), lemons were squeezed (2) and Nutella was spread (1 jar). Partly conceived after a very lovely lunch at the wonderful Senzala/Brick Box creperie in Brixton Village with R last weekend, I also did a few copycat savoury fillings – olives, goats cheese and spinach, or herby tomato sauce and melted cheddar. Everyone brought a sweet filling too, so as well as lemons we had caramelised plums, toffee sauce, icecream and lots of berries. Continue reading →

11 January 2012

Pancetta Ravioli

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Pancetta Ravioli

A couple of weeks ago I went over to E’s for a girly night of cooking, trying out my new ravioli cutter and looking at Rightmove. I arrived to a lovely cold bottle of white Rioja and a big board covered with ham, breadsticks and hummus. Once we had munched our way through all of that, it was time to get out her new pasta machine and come up with a recipe. Neither of us had found any we liked during the day, so just made it up as we went along… and it was good. Continue reading →

3 January 2012

New Year’s Eve 2011/12: food from Morocco

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January is here, so grey and soggy and dark. We decided to welcome it in with a meal from Morocco, full of bright, warm, sunny flavours to remind us of our holiday in Marrakesh and Fez in October. In Fez … Continue reading →

29 December 2011

Open House London

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I meant to put these online quite a while ago, but only recently managed to develop and scan them in. They are a few shots taken walking around London on the Open House weekend earlier this year. Most of the … Continue reading →

5 December 2011

Futurebook

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I was lucky enough to be at The Bookseller‘s Futurebook conference today – the now regular gathering to take a look at some of the digital developments taking place in publishing, and speculate about the future of books and publishing. … Continue reading →

26 November 2011

Show (some of) your spots

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Last weekend E and I had another cooking extravaganza, this time in aid of charity. Last year CP was working on the Children in Need branding so they held a Show Your Spots fundraiser, and we decided to make it … Continue reading →

24 October 2011

Sourdough gone crazy

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We fed the sourdough before going out yesterday and forgot to put it on a plate… Came back to this… Oops!

11 September 2011

Glamping part two

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Paella

Ok, so I know we don’t really go glamping. There are no gypsy caravans with wood burning stoves, or yurts filled with draped silks and scatter cushions. But I think that doing the best you can with a couple of old 4-man frame tents and a gazebo, an old fashioned picnic hamper full of pans and, of course, Sean’s Massive Wok, is just as good. Continue reading →

22 August 2011

Critiqua

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We’ve spent much of the weekend getting things going with Critiqua, a project we’ve been planning for a while – ever since our Publishing MAs at Oxford Brookes in fact, where I put the plan together as my major project. … Continue reading →

21 August 2011

Amico Bio

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A couple of weeks ago we went to Amico Bio, a fairly new vegetarian restaurant near the Barbican. I’m always looking for vegetarian restaurants, and as it is fairly near my office it seemed to tick most of the boxes already. It didn’t have to be amazing for me to probably consider going again. But the lack of communication and unsmiling staff have put me off. Continue reading →