Hi folks- sorry I haven’t written for a fortnight. Been incredibly busy and a piss poor time manager- hardly had half an hour to eat let […]

This is one of the hardest things ever to make. Takes hours, patience, an absurd number of ingredients. But once in a while, put on that […]

In my memoir The Settler’s Cookbook I describe khichri- a simple concoction that Asians believe to be the first and bestest power food in the world. […]

Winter is here, everyone is ill, coughing spluttering, with swollen essay-it glands and miserable faces. The weather- unusually mild- is bringing pestilences. So, looking after a […]

It makes the old man very happy, his little plot at the far end of the garden, away from the phone, his office, me, the telly […]

We do a big grocery shop every 3 to 4 weeks- and only get fresh veg and fruit in between. Do, by week 4 the cupboards […]

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