Greedy Gourmet

Bah! So what if there is a recession? Who needs pounds if you can enjoy decadent desserts with mere pennies?

Bell peppers were created hollow so that you could stuff them with whatever tickles your fancy.

Sharing an office with a 20-month old is anything but dull. Extreme vigilance is required if you don’t want to trip over a ball (or 5), books, pieces of Lego and wooden bricks, an old telephone, plastic trucks, a tub of Play-Doh and a xylophone. Just when I think he’s busy amusing himself with building [...]

When I think of dieting food boring salads, boiled vegetables and banned sweets come to mind. Worse still, has anyone seen the 1974 recipe cards of Weight Watchers? Hah, now you have. It got just too lonely getting scarred for life viewing these grotesque food pictures that I had to drag you along. What happened [...]

Inspecting each packet at the vegetable seed stand carefully, broad beans immediately caught my eye. Not having a clue what I was about to grow didn’t matter much to me for as long as it came out of my garden I was happy. Strangely, the plants weren’t like the ordinary bean ones, i.e. needing poles [...]

I keep a stash of recipes that are ready for publishing in a folder. Ready to do some spring cleaning I paged to the oldest one. Yikes! September was only yesterday, wasn’t it? But…but…but it’s 6 months ago! How could this recipe go unnoticed by me? Okay, let’s admit it; it’s not as fancy as [...]

Dark green, pale green, gray, orange, yellow, white, red, knobbly, smooth, ridged, small, enormous, round, oblong or ovoid. Ah yes, you know it is autumn when pumpkins start appearing at your local supermarket in all shapes and sizes. They are so versatile in cooking and yet I know few Britons who have even tasted it. [...]