Author: Owen

I just noticed (when I updated the recipe count) that we have reached 50 recipes. It is time to go back and put together some kind of archive that makes them all a little more…

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Old mashed potatoes are rare at our house, even when I’m the one making them. If I make the mash, then I do it old English style. The potatoes are unpeeled. They are hand mashed…

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I am delighted and really annoyed at the same time. Alexander McCall Smith, author of the Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency and other books, has just started a daily serialization of a new novel in…

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About as apolitical as a subject can get: What did you have for dinner? Wrong! What you had for dinner is helping to determine not only your future health in basic direct and indirect ways…

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Sushi takes me back – a long way back. I think I was 22, living in London and I got taken to one of the first sushi places in London – This was 1985 maybe.…

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Saturday, unusually was a particularly productive day. I managed to get a lot of plastering and sanding done on the repairs to the kitchen walls resulting form putting in the new stove. I made buttermilk…

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Well, not more really. I just archived everything and went through it and discovered that I had 47 recipes/guidelines embedded in this weblog rather than the 43 it says in the left hand navigation bar.…

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Over the weekend we all went to have brunch with some old friends who we haven’t seen in a very long time – Anthony and Carmen. They made a most excellent brunch and we caught…

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A lot of thoughts have come together for this brief entry. My daughter is studying ancient civilizations in her social studies classes in middle school and was asking me to help find trade routes between…

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When you cook the way I do – look at what you have available and try to make something from it, sometimes drawing on recipes, sometimes not – then you find out that occasionally your…

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