Dark-Chocolate and Sour-Cherry Panforte

One of the other Christmasy treats I made this season was this Sienese panforte.  I made this to serve after the Balmoral Carols when we were all back at our house and looking for something sweet to enjoy with a cup of tea or a glass of red. I do love panforte as it’s not […]

A Gingerbread House

For those of you who were following my blog last Christmas you might recall I made a gingerbread house that imploded.  I had just come home from being away on an eight-day business trip and it was now but a few days away from Christmas Day and I was trying to fit four weeks of […]

Chicken Roasted in Salt Water and The Extras

Archie’s been on a two week break from uni.  I’m not sure what he’s done with his time but he hasn’t been home much at all.  I did drop a few loud hints that it would be nice if he tidied his room and ‘Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if someone cleaned my car’, but […]

A Country Sojourn

I have a beautiful friend who always starts her emails to me with ‘Dearest Charlie’.  The email I received from her during the week let me know she’d enjoyed a wonderful weekend on a property in Cootamundra.  ‘I always feel quite soul restored after a sojourn in the country’, she wrote and I couldn’t agree […]