Food, Travel, and Cooking!
Here’s another do ahead brunch dish for a stress free host, you can be enjoying your Blood Orange Mimosa while brunch is baking! I don’t know about you, but around the holidays when entertaining can get crazy, we need all the do-aheads we can get our hands on. This can be made vegetarian by leaving out […]
An oldie but goodie! My Dad loved this salad and turned me onto it a long time ago. I think in those days it was dressed with Thousand Island. It’s the perfect way to use up some of that Christmas turkey & ham if you have some left over! The salad goes over a treat […]
We love this excellent way of preparing a whole ham for Easter dinner or anytime you want to feed a large group. Thanks James Beard for the inspiration (he used a whole bottle of Madiera!) We normally use a smoked pork picnic when we don’t need a whole ham. It’s dead-easy, juicy and the Marsala […]
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/and summer’s lease hath all to short a date.” -Shakespeare, sonnet 18. Spring meant lots of things when I was a little girl. Easter school holidays (hey, it was the 1950’s), were high on my list as I was not too keen on going to school! Then there was […]