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Cheesecake. Finally.

“It started with a cheesecake.” I’ve just spent a few minutes trying to force this line into Hot Chocolate’s “It started with a kiss.” It seemed promising, I could change the line “the back row of the classroom,” into “the middle shelf of the oven.” It all fell apart quickly. Which is exactly what I…

Here is the Love (black-eyed peas)

Making Claudia Roden’s black-eyed pea/bean (the legumes are called both) stew prompted me to think a lot about coincidences. So, in preparation for writing this post I decided to find out what “synchronicity” means (my father used the word twenty years ago, I didn’t ask him where it came from and then life moved on).…

Macaroons

No messing about with the title. No word play. Just Macaroons. Which is not to say I haven’t spent the last twenty minutes trying to come up with something. Discarded were “Make Room for a MacaRoon” and “Make a Roon” (witchy). And I was going to kick off with a childhood reminiscence- there was a…

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