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Elderflower Panna Cotta 30 Jun 2013 | 04:58 pm
The BSG, Dad and I enjoyed The Rolling Stones’ Glastonbury set yesterday evening from the comfort of the sofa: with a great view, warm, dry and utterly relaxed in the knowledge that a trip to the fac...
Bird of Smithfield 10 Jun 2013 | 04:46 pm
By its name it could be an age-old London song, an ancient boozer or a character in a lost Dickens novel; Bird of Smithfield sounds like it’s been around for a while. Conversely it hasn’t, and by some...
The Violet Hour 16 May 2013 | 09:42 pm
The sky overhead looms with helium-balloon clouds, threatening rods of rain one minute and spilling golden pools of sunshine the next. I shut my eyes and I am on a rooftop in a New York twilight with ...
Lemony Quinoa with Shiitake, Chicken & Coriander 10 Apr 2013 | 02:03 am
They say that much like there’s a book in everyone, there’s a marathon in everyone. Well I’m not at all sure who ‘they’ are, but ‘they’ omit a major sub-clause: that many books and marathons should st...
Pappardelle with Chicken Liver Ragù 28 Mar 2013 | 08:11 pm
I feel very lucky have grown up in a happy clan of 4 close siblings. There aren’t even five years to separate oldest (moi) from the youngest (H). Obviously, between supermarket shops, school runs, on...
Ratty Spanish Eggs 22 Mar 2013 | 05:00 pm
A couple of months back, I had breakfast at Providores on Marylebone High Street with my friend Esther, she of the highly-addictive Recipe Rifle. Spurred on by her advice (I wasn’t going to argue with...
Chelsea Snail Buns 18 Mar 2013 | 07:10 pm
We had grand plans for yesterday, but then the weather reverted to recent form, so we ensconced ourselves in the brilliantly local and cosy Parlour for breakfast (more about that soon), watched the mi...
The River Café 6 Mar 2013 | 11:32 pm
The BSG and I managed to sneak our way into the perennially popular River Café on the first sunny day of spring, thanks to an amazing winter lunch offer (on ‘til 22nd March, if you’re asking). We’d mu...
Flat Iron: no boobs 11 Feb 2013 | 09:39 pm
It’s enchanting, I’m sure, to hear your toddler utter new words and grasp associations. Less enchanting, perhaps, when said small person points at their pregnant mother and says ‘big boobs’, then at t...
A bread and butter pudding for the snow 25 Jan 2013 | 10:12 pm
Bread and butter: so simple, yet the stuff of childish dreams. As delicious-sounding in literature as any cake - especially when drawn from a wicker luncheon basket and laid out on a cloth with jam, o...
