when may 1 may 6 2017 what: A week spent sketching in the Sicilian hills, the better to take in all the beauty and inspiratio...

My cookbook collection grows. When we moved into this flat four years ago, I brought with me a desert island stash. The bare minimum of b...

You know how sometimes you have to call a friend, and you keep putting it off, for good reasons, then bad reasons, then no reasons other ...

You hear so much about  summer cooking, but over time,I’ve come to see that summer is as summer does. In Scotland, you can fire up the ov...

I won't bore you with all the million reasons that have kept me from blogging. It was nothing bad, just a classic case of freelancer...

Here's the thing. I have a million things to do, and it's cold and grey and gloomy and it's January and that mostly sucks. A...

Despensa , originally uploaded by Lobstersquad . Enjoying our time with friends and family, of course. But the food...oh, the food. The cons...

I love Christmas Eve. It's the one day of the year when I can embrace my kitchen geekiness. Food crazies are in the mainstream for a d...

Some months ago I wrote about the contents of my freezer, listing among them chicken skins. Someone asked me in the comments if they were f...

Disclaimer: I have never in my life written a review, and it's been keeping me awake and away from the blog. But I said I would so now I...