rice is nice

We eat far more rice than we do potato – it doesn’t need peeling, for a start. We bought a 20kg bag of basmati, and I noted the date so we could see how long it took us to eat through it. And it was 9 months and 3 weeks. There’s only two of us,…

the depths of the cupboard

I have a narrow cupboard on the wall next to the cooker, in which I keep various oils, vinegars, ketchups and so forth. In a mad fit I decided to go through it today, to make some space. The record for something past its sell by date in this house is now held by a…

clearing up the fridge

For one reason and another, I haven’t done much cooking this week just past – probably because I’ve been coding this site for hours on end! So I looked in the fridge last night, and decided to clear up all the bitsa that was in there. What did I do? there was a jug of…