I have spent much of the last week working on the entry forms for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards which open at the end of this month – and it has really focused my mind on exactly what is involved for an eating-out establishment in going 'freefrom'. But while, at first glance, …
Recipes
In memoriam Clarissa
I was so sorry this morning to read of the death of Clarissa Dickson Wright, an amazing lady of massive character and courage – a splendidly non-PC advocate of good food, good living and English country life. I never knew her well, and I never knew her in her drinking days, …
Pancake Syndrome
How appropriate the day before Shrove Tuesday! I have just been reading the Anaphylaxis Campaign's excellent new factsheet on Idiopathic Anaphylaxis (the really scary one in which no one can work out what triggered your anaphylactic attack) and I came across this: Flour …
Celeriac…….
Is that not truly magnificent? I must admit that, when it arrived from Farm Direct, I was not even sure what it was, it was so enormous – and so muddy.... But a celeriac it surely was and, in due course, it got turned into a fine selection of celeriac-based dishes. I feel that …
Marmalade time – unsticking the labels…..
Last week I got this rant fromt an old friend.... It is marmalade time of year and once again I have now twice spent a good half hour scrubbing jam jars – trying to get off the label residues. I bought that idiotic de-sticking stuff or whatever it’s called – which doesn’t do …