Picturing a supermarket biscuit aisle, right now it’s chocolate and nuts that appeal. The nuts might be an issue though, after a cobnut-related incident over the weekend. So out come the recipe books, for I am trying to justify the inclusion of all recipe books on my cookery book shelves and the baking ones are […]
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I read an article in Slightly Foxed magazine (Summer 2020) about Picnic at Hanging Rock. I have the book on extremely long-term loan (Sarah M, I haven’t forgotten) and have never read it. The back cover mentions “brooding”, “horror” and “ends in terror”; my default literary genres of choice do not extend to anything with
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Bao*. Soft, fluffy, folded-over pillowy buns stuffed with zingy, crunchy vegetables and some kind of crispy fried meat slathered in a piquant sauce. This is exactly what I want to eat right now. Or later today would suffice. I’ve had “Oh my God, that’s good” bao and I’ve also had damp, almost slimy buns with
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I knew next to nothing about Malaysian food. Word association resulted in chicken satay (yum), street food, probably coconut and lemongrass … Some other ingredients I thought of appeared not to be quite as Malaysian as I had guessed, so that very short list above was the extent of my knowledge about Malaysian food. I
Having recently had cause to think and talk about probate and the sorting out of someone else’s paperwork, I realise that I have very limited control or comprehension of my own paper and online subscriptions, commitments, memberships, etc. While there was no obvious reason for me to prepare my paperwork in the event of my
