lemon

Confession time… this is my third attempt for turning my seemingly good idea at the time into something really good. Normally, I get an idea in my head, run with it, and the end result, I’d say 80% of the time is what I was expected. Sometimes it is even better, other times… well.. how…

Anyone reading this right now must be thinking that I have either become bone idle, or am totally exhausted in the ideas camp. I mean. Really, ‘chips’? Surely these typically arrive on plate from two sources – the local chippy, or from some bag of processed delights which live in the freezer. I have spent…

It is not uncommon that I adapt an otherwise perfectly acceptable recipe. The reason tends to be far more driven by pragmatism than anything else – the actual ingredients at hand being a regular cause. No deception intended – this recipe is incredibly similar to the Prawn, Squid, and Chilli Fusilli recipe I published a…

The very first time I had ever tried Boeuf Bourguignon was at the age of 10 when staying with my great aunt Micheline in the Loire Valley. Every summer, my family would spend a couple of weeks with our relatives in Meung-sur-Loire (country home of Georges Simenon’s fictional detective Jules Maigret – for the literary…

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