I am so firmly in the demographic for The Boat That Rocked that it would have had to be truly dreadful to be disappointing. You know: predictable plotline, one-dimensional characters; forced drama; loathsome villains. It had all those, and more, and was an utter delight, not least because of the...
A sourdough, which had been doing its thing all night, looked just fine this morning. So I went to punch it down, generally a satisfactional kind of thing to do. It grabbed my knuckles and refused to let go. And this was a 50% dough, which should be reasonably stiff. Something -- most likely the hea...
Aglaia Kremezi has the straight dope on Greek yoghurt.1 The stuff she ate as a child was not thick and creamy. Imagine that! If thick and creamy was required for a dish of, say, tzatziki, her family strained it specifically. That’s a relief; I can carry on with my home made stuff, straining if I...
I just watched Michelle Obama tell the girls of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school that “being smart is the coolest thing in the world”. At last! Of course, in some sectors the very fact that she said it will reinforce the idea that being smart is uncool, but screw them. They’re losers anyway.
...Last weekend called forth a flurry of activity on the terrace, where two trees really needed moving to bigger quarters, the iris needed decongestants, and various other things needed new homes. Fun it was, too, and satisfying in its own way. But boy! The cost!
It’s one of the things all those cont...
