Monthly Archive: September 2009

conkers and cookers

What, you ask, are these little creatures? These are those familiar harbingers of an English autumn, the seeds of the horse chestnut tree, also known...

gnocchi, my would-be Waterloo

Well, I cannot profess to have a recipe for gnocchi, although I successfully made gnocchi this evening. How to explain this conundrum? It’s a very...

that film

How on earth has a week gone by without my checking in? Because, as so many bloggers wish, I’ve been actually LIVING, as opposed to...