I wrote this short piece for a cafe themed writing challenge that Alison Trollop put on her Patreon site. ”How did you come across him?” Cafe conversations, going on around me. “How old was he?” Like a badly tuned radio. “I hope you like cinnamon.” Fragments fluttering by. “I stood on a box.” Cup half …
Author Archives: David Burbidge
Apple, lemon and chocolate cake
The cake in the picture with this post may not be the best-looking thing I’ve put on here, but it just might be one of the tastiest. It’s the sort of cake I know would hardly register with me if I saw it on a bakery counter. My gaze soon moving to the more cream-laden, …
Comfort food from my favourite cookbook.
My cookbook library is extensive and will soon need a larger bookcase to house it. Lockdown may have stopped random buys resulting from bookshop browsing, but it’s still grown over the last 12 months. I keep feeling now should be the time to pull out some of those which don’t see the light of day …
We may have over ordered on the lemons
I think we may have over-ordered on the lemons. Like most people, we’re trying to limit our supermarket trips at the moment. Trying to follow the lockdown rules and only going out when necessary. Getting a home delivery is proving nigh on impossible, but we are having some success with click and collect. Yesterday was …
Magazines for the stay at home food traveller
The first thing I read this morning was the government is currently looking to April as the soonest the current lockdown might be eased. Given the UK posted it’s highest daily death figures for the pandemic only yesterday, we’re going to have the hatches battened down for a long time yet, even April might turn …
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The Thrill of What Might Be.
I sometimes fear I’ve boxed myself in a little with the name of this blog. Perhaps it should be ‘David in the kitchen, with a desk in the corner for when he wants to write about something other than food’. Writing a blog was something I’d wanted to do for a long time and taking …
These are a few of my favourite things.
Is there a food that makes you happy, even just thinking about it? This was the question my friend Alison asked her followers on Twitter the other night. My initial thought was ‘I’ve got so many’. So many that prompt a smile and a stirring of the taste buds. I could choose: A plate of …
Apple, cardamom & buckwheat muffins
One of my regular Google searches is to check just how much notice I need to take of the ‘best before’ or BBE dates on food items in my pantry. Now we’re back into a full-blown lockdown here in the UK I’m once again going through the shelves to see what we’ve got and more …
Now doesn’t feel like the time for abstemiousness
Everywhere I look at the moment I’m seeing references to #dryJanuary or #veganuary. Even to the extent that spellcheck just found veganuary for me when I misspelt it. If ever there were frequency illusions I didn’t want to be happening at the moment, it’s these. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against the principles …
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Getting back into the kitchen
If this year has taught me anything it has to be the importance of concentrating on the small things. At a time when so much feels to be out of our control, we’ve all learnt the hard way that making grand plans or trying to look too far ahead is a fool’s errand and bound …
David in the kitchen. 