salad cream

To serve salad (… and ninety years ago British home cooks were using mixed leaves, garlic and olive oil!)

Food by LoisJanuary 21, 2019January 16, 2019

What exactly is salad cream?

Food by LoisAugust 10, 2018

Potato salad, the simplest thing

Food by LoisJuly 7, 2018

Sardine salad and Canton fruit mould

Food by LoisMay 25, 2018

Food by LoisAugust 20, 2017

High tea for national afternoon tea week finale

When I posted about treacle scones a week ago today, I had no idea it was national-afternoon-tea-eve; I only discovered it the day after, and through the week I’ve been sharing my thoughts on what must be a national institution, afternoon tea. But wait, what about high tea? Is that the same but bigger? or […]

Potato salad

Food by LoisJuly 7, 2017July 7, 2018

Chippy potatoes

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Food by LoisMay 9, 2015

Chipped potatoes

In our family chipped or chippy potatoes are different from chips; as a child we didn’t often have chips at home and they would have been fried in dripping in those days. I remember have chips with fried egg for lunch, and maybe that was an economical meal when we were trying to save money. Economical, […]