Alex has just alerted me to the fact that, because they look like little gold coins, lentils are a traditional dish on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in Italy as they are thought to bring wealth in the year to come! I know it is a little late, but I thought maybe we could …
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Sue’s Socca……
While having a new year clean out of my 'in box' this morning, I found the 'socca' recipe that Sue Cane, our resident coeliac and gluten-free beer expert, had sent me a few weeks ago and that I had mentioned yesterday. In the course of another email she had commented that she …
Leaves – dishwasher doors – and one-pot soup-stews…
Is this just not the most exciting Christmas present ever?.... It is what is going to finally get me to grow edible, rather than look-atable, plants in the garden... All those wonderful spicy leaves that I have been getting in my Farm Direct deliveries from Cultivate London! (And …
Christmas giggles and advice….
If you want to give your coeliac friends a quick giggle, you should sign them up to Alex Gazzola's Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink blog - just so that they can read his Christmas blog.... He has lots of useful advice, naturally – but he also offers you a choice of 'The Worst …
FreeFrom Food awards – only 5 days left….
I realise that it is over 10 days since I put finger to blog – for which I can only blame the last ten days' worth of entries for this year's FreeFrom Food Awards. For any potential entrant reading this blog, they close at midnight next Wednesday 12th. However, it has been …