The panelling in the kitchen has finally been installed. The East Wall of the Kitchen, still awaiting final paint Which means we now live w...

  Another, more-or-less, from the inestimable Jill Norman (which she in turn appears to have taken from Eliza Acton). It's a bavarois. W...

  Some years ago, I posted on here a blog about an anonymous portrait that we’d bought, grubby and unloved, at Sotheby’s in Milan in 2004....

  Clearly, it's time for this recipe to be transcribed onto here, from the increasingly stained and scrappy bit of paper which seems to ...

 .. .has been slow over the past few month, for obvious reasons, but in practice we're now very close to being able to move in (and cont...

  I finally got round to researching Bundt recipes, recently, and was surprised (and, in a way, quietly impressed) to find that, as an idea,...

  This is shameless self-promotion! I realised recently that many of the earlier recipes which I posted on here are probably merely gatherin...