Well, more like Christmas lun/ner. By the time we sat down to eat, it was 5pm, and Christmas was already over by UK and other more easterly countries’ time. But feast we did, and we didn’t stop eating till 11pm.

For Christmas, my parents found us a great breadmaker from Macy’s. We’d stipulated that we didn’t want to spend much on a breadmaker because we could never bring it home (the aage-old US vs rest-of-the-world voltage issues), so they were best-pleased with themselves to find a display piece at a bargain basement price just because […]

A brief hiatus in food blogging due to work getting in the way. I have eaten loads in the intervening period, but not much of note. Taking a few days off while my parents are in LA means that we finally have some time on our hands to cook. The chicken pie above was a […]

that chicken in milk and lemon? lasted three meals. last night’s dinner this afternoon’s lunch (avec ris) tonight’s tea (with leftover flat bread) and that’s even with us two being pigs and eating more than normal people would.