Category: Lunches
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Yorkshire puddings
This Sunday I cooked for a dinner party. The party was more personal than usual because it was to celebrate my dad’s birthday – a milestone birthday, I’ll add. Fiona went full party-planner when it came to the decorations. Only gold was allowed, no multi-coloured numbered confetti, no sparkly pink balloons, no shiny foil bunting.…
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Food on the go
I think everyone must know someone who can eat anything. They wear it as self-righteous armour and enjoy a not-too-subtle roll of the eyes when you say you don’t like something. I’m afraid to say, I am that person. That is, until the tuna pasta incident. Work lunches, or food on the go, has been an…
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Guacamole
My dad works away from home, spending most of his week near Birmingham. Every Thursday he drives back to be the out-numbered male in a house of three women and spends the weekend cooking up a storm. He is a very good cook – throughout our family life he has taken the reins of providing…
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Spaghetti a la Clara
The kitchen is being painted. What started as a highly indulgent picnic adventure has now reached a tiresome level which is purely my aggravation that I can’t bake anything. Instead, I must satisfy myself with squidgy pieces of banana bread made on Sunday, cold pizza from the fridge, and try not to stare at pictures…