Food, glorious food
With Christmas approaching and the unbridled food-fest that comes with it, I thought I’d do a post about food. I’ve had a slightly uncomfortable relationship with food for much of my life, although the reasons…
Oral Allergy Syndrome
Oral Allergy Syndrome – and broccoli behaving badly
Oral Allergy Syndrome (OAS) is an allergy which sounds like a teenager’s dream but for someone intent on keeping fit and with a balanced diet, it’s a nightmare. Basically I’m unable to eat raw fruit…
A long weird week (involving strawberries, kittens and big hills)
Well that’s the end of a busy and unusual week. It started with an ‘away-day’ – a sort of morale boosting day without the boosting of much morale (but at least the lunch was fine)….
Of sleep, training and treadmills that bite
Perhaps it’s the effect of the 5am starts during the week, but I slept in today. Sleepbot reckoned on 12h7m of snoozing which is a lot compared to my average of about 8 hours. On…
A bit of cookery goodness
My recipe folder is almost 30 years old! The card folder was given to me at school and there are yellowing pages about safety and hygiene in the kitchen and a line which states “two…
Cabbage – or ‘whatever happened to Friday?’
The weekend was all about catching up. A good friend from West Yorkshire came over to visit as it had been a good while since we’d had a good chin-wag. This was almost de-railed by…
Sour-dough Sally, Springtime and the sleeping Squeak
I’ve just surfaced from a very hectic weekend, which explains the lack of updates. Meet Sally. She’s a sourdough starter mix: I wouldn’t normally do anything as daft as name a bubbling mixture of wholemeal…