One of the great benefits of the creative writing course I’m taking is the opportunity to produce work in different styles and formats to those I would normally use. In a recent session we looked at writing a villanelle poem. If you’re anything like me a villanelle will be a completely new concept so I’ll …
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Pavlova with Pimm’s roasted strawberries.
Every weekend needs a treat and at the moment probably more so than ever. We may be slowly coming out of lockdown isolation, slowly starting to socialise again, but each day can still feel the same with little to highlight one from another. An indulgent treat at least sets the weekend apart. It’s an excuse …
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A few chinks of light
If I hear one more person say ‘this is the new normal’ I swear I’m going to scream, or at least walk off with a petulant flounce. Given the way things change on a daily basis and how the UK is coming out of lockdown in such a seemingly ad-hoc and random manner I don’t …
I made a Victoria sponge.
I baked a Victoria sponge this weekend. That light and airy cake which somehow seems to symbolise teatime in ways nothing else does. There are so many childhood memories of there always being one of these on the table if we went to spend time with my grandparents. Full of cream and fruit, dusted with …
A stay at home food traveller.
When lockdown started I rather naively hoped that one of the benefits was going to be much more time to write and as a result lots more things to post on here. Well how wrong was I. Obviously the time has been there, how couldn’t it be when you’re not leaving home, but somehow the …
It feels like summer
It feels very much as if summer has come early. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I’ve got a blind pulled to keep the glare off the screen as I type. It’s left me struggling to make up my mind if the advent of such good weather is a help or a …
Saturday afternoon in Paris
As it’s another Saturday afternoon with not much to do I’ve decided to take myself to The Little Paris Kitchen. In an ideal world it would be a trip to a small, intimate space in Montmartre where a long leisurely lunch is followed by coffee and maybe a glass of Calvados. Unfortunately as the world …
Sharing bread with my father.
As part of the creative writing course I’m currently doing we were asked yesterday to come up with two lists relating to the current situation. One showing the positives we think are coming out of it and the other listing the negatives. After much thought and head scratching I was half way down the page …
Lemon semolina cake
One of the things I’m enjoying about writing this blog is how much I’m finding out as I do it. Not only am I learning from the research I do prior to writing but also from the feedback and questions people ask me after I’ve posted. Yesterdays example of this was when I learned that …
Lockdown luxury
The last few weeks have made me feel as if I need to be a bit abstemious in my baking. I’m not saying that it’s made me feel I need to bake any less, quite the opposite in fact, but what it has done is made me feel I need to be careful with what …
David in the kitchen. 