It’s Yul Brynner’s heavenly birthday today, and here’s a post that’s been in my draft folder for ages. Happy birthday, Yul, my heavenly heartthrob… I recently did a bookbinding evening class here in Hastings, and I LOVED IT. The first four weeks of the course involved learning about the many and varied book structures that...
Yippeee it is the favourite day of all food bloggers everywhere. Pieathalon Day! It’s the 9th year of this bonkers escapade where a bunch of us send weird and wonderful pie recipes to Yinzerella of Dinner is Served 1972 and she dishes them out for each of us to make. Naturally, I always send out...
When it pours with rain on a dark and cold evening, commuters in London go a bit mental. One night way back in November I had to wait in the cold and wet while 3 full buses sailed past my stop while folks in the bus queue were effing and blinding and waving their fists...
When the boss’s birthday is in the same week as Yul Brynner’s it’s a no brainer where to look for a cake recipe… This was a GREAT CAKE as it is very easy to make and I loved the suggestion of bunging fresh cream and fruit on the top, thus saving the effort of making...
I’ve been on a virtual reality writing retreat this month at Camp NaNoWriMo – it’s the 8th time I’ve participated and the 1st time I’ve hit my target early. 2 days early in fact! Yeah! I am a WINNER. I decided to pat myself on the back with some broccoli. But not just any broccoli,...
Another winner from Yul Brynner! I had some asparagus going rubbery in my fridge and, determined to use it up, I had it for my tea last night with not much else apart from a little salad. It was lovely. I was going to put a fried egg on top but forgot. No matter, this...
This recipe is now a bit of a default way for me to cook up broccoli. It’s easy and it’s tasty, and it always makes me laugh because… whenever Yul Brynner comes up in conversation I have a “Pavlov’s dog” type reaction to his name: and cannot stop myself from saying, “I really fancy Yul...
I am pleased to announce, that I am the very proud recipient of the Marion Wilton Cookery Cup! This is awarded for the most total points in the cookery classes of the Spring, Summer and Autumn Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Society Shows. Behold the splendour! It is a beauty! So in the Autumn show...
Ooh! I was at the Guild of Food Writers Awards on Tuesday, and not only did I score some free Tenderstem Broccoli, but my food idol Yotam Ottolenghi SQUEEZED MY SHOULDER. Yes, I am not joking. I was chatting to Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich of Honey & Co and Yotam came up to talk to them too,...
My second article for Eat Drink Films is live today and you can nip over there for Yul’s recipe. It’s very good – here’s the link to the recipe: Yul Brynner’s Potatoes in Sour Cream and here are a few photos of some I made earlier… I used Maris Piper potatoes. I used Panko breadcrumbs…...
The August recipe is up and it’s absolutely delicious. It’s one of those dishes that whenever I think about it I start licking my lips and thinking, I must make that again. I absolutely loved it. The lovely Charlie has updated my website to the new version of WordPress and I’m getting all kinds of...
My lovely penpal Margie in Atlanta mentioned ages ago that she’d spotted a Yul Brynner cookbook and I’m not sure why I didn’t get on the ebay machine immediately and buy one. No matter, his card was picked from the pack for recipe of the month for August so I pressed the buy button last...
