How to Make Terrible Gnocchi
The pesto would have been better tossed with small snails than with the gnocchi I made. I know I have a tendency to toot my own horn on...
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jdettmann
Jun 29, 20163 min read
It Turns Out, You Can Go Home Again
Sample bookshelf from my parents’ attic: Just one of the many collections of books that tells you probably more than you need to know...
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jdettmann
Apr 17, 20152 min read
The Mysterious Chocolate Cookies of Misery
I made the cookies using an amalgamation of recipes on the internet, which I found by googling ‘cacao almond cookies’. They all contained...
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jdettmann
Nov 22, 20122 min read
Talking Turkey
Actually, this year the game of Move The Tables From The Verandah To The Garden And Back Again Thrice As The Weather Changes was knocked...
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jdettmann
Jun 26, 20122 min read
Absence Makes The Weather Grow Colder.
Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...
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jdettmann
May 14, 20123 min read
Lunch Of The Week: Mushroom Barley Soup With Grilled Feta Toast
Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...
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jdettmann
May 4, 20123 min read
Cooking With Gusto: Blackberry Sponge Pudding
It has, as you might expect, a very small freezer section. We like to keep it very full of food stacked so precariously that it is...
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jdettmann
Apr 14, 20122 min read
What I’ve Liked This Week: Learning to Be On Holiday Edition
Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...
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jdettmann
Mar 23, 20122 min read
My Kitchen’s Adequate: Or How I Resisted The Title ‘Salad Days’
Anyway, My Kitchen Rules is a cooking competition, and last night the competitors each had to choose a dish and cook it in ninety...
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jdettmann
Mar 16, 20121 min read
And Finally, Monsieur, A Wafer-Thin Mint.
As you can see, this is a very ordinary photograph of some bacon in a bain marie. Why would anyone put such a bad picture on their blog,...
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jdettmann
Mar 14, 20122 min read
Smells Like Too Many Spirits
This week I moved all our wine from the hall cupboard into wine racks on top of the spare room wardrobe, relocating the spirits to the...
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jdettmann
Mar 12, 20122 min read
You’re Older Than You’ve Ever Been And Now You’re Even Older
Approximately how many candles I will need for my birthday cake this year. It’s my birthday soon. I’ll be older than ever before. There...
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jdettmann
Jan 28, 20123 min read
Highly Commended
The Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...
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jdettmann
Jan 23, 20123 min read
Going Viral
Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...
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jdettmann
Dec 19, 20112 min read
There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging
Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
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jdettmann
Nov 28, 20113 min read
Travel Gobstoppers
My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...
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