Quote for the day #2

By Colin, on January 27th, 2011%

Harriet Van Horne, Critic and Colomnist

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

Harriet Van Horne

Vogue 10/1956

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The Joy of Ceps in The Open Country

By Colin, on December 4th, 2010%

Readers of this blog are aware that I have more than a passing interest in Mushrooms.

Mushroom Knife

BBC Radio 4 has somewhat out of season recently broadcast a couple of interesting short programmes about mushrooms. I thought I would share the links with you, but if you want to listen you may have . . . → Read More: The Joy of Ceps in The Open Country

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Where the wild things are

By Colin, on October 2nd, 2010%

I have been making Bread recently something that I do fairly regularly, but usually I cheat a bit because I use a bread machine to knead the dough which I then finish by hand. Unfortunately my machine recently died of old age

I have always enjoyed making bread and by following a few basic . . . → Read More: Where the wild things are

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The Essence of this Blog

By Colin, on May 25th, 2010%

I have been thinking about this blog. I am quite content with the general posting (such as they are) but I think it lacks focus. Lots of people have cooking blogs, some are quite good, many a bit indifferent, most rather bland. I don’t do bland I do gourmet so I have made three decisions.

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