Food

Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!

Food by Lois

Goodbye, old friend

We have had you for about seventeen years, and moved from Oldham to Uphill; you have given us countless Christmas dinners, hundreds of cakes and loaves of bread, furnished us with thousands of meals from your two ovens, grill, gas rings and griddle… how many plates have you kept warm? Plates without number. You have seen us […]

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Food by Lois

I should have used couscous

I went to a celebration where we each had to bring some vegetarian food to share and I thought I would make a nice couscous… but for some reason decided millet might be nice for a change. I gently fried some onions and leeks until they were nice and sweet, ditto some baby tomatoes, then […]

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