Author: Owen

A few of you will have noticed some design changes. I am trying to make it so that on most screens with most browsers you get three columns that extend all the way from top…

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We and some of our friends have a tradition to have an Oscar party with good food and watch and kid around and make snide remarks. It used to be our party and held at…

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…which were basically abysmal this week. Clearly all the gay marriages in San Francisco are not only tearing apart my marriage, all the other marriages in America and the rest of the world and destroying…

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The reason I started this was primarily to do two things. To make myself write SOMETHING – anything – more often, and also to record some of the better dishes I cooked In the hopes…

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Which is unusual in California. We’ve had a straight five days of downpour. Last night we had lightning, thunder and hail added on. Every day the creek out back has risen and risen and then…

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Celtic California Stew [California influenced Irish stew derivative with rosemary/sorrel/mint dumplings] For eight people I used three pounds of lamb – from three different cuts – two small shanks, four shoulder chops and a pound…

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I often miss the local papers on Wednesday’s and that is when the food sections all seem to be, so I am going to try to catch them online and provide links to the worthwhile…

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OK, OK, so I haven’t given you the lemon/bergamot cake recipe. Since I didn’t really come up with it and all I did was to switch bergamot for lemon, I don’t really think I can…

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Valentine’s day and crab – not what you would normally connect with one another. But our family now has a three year tradition linking crab to Valentine’s Day. For the last three years we have…

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I have been busy with a lot of other things so I have been woefully lazy about updating and I have missed out describing a few good things. I made the baked chicken dish again…

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