The very almost Batty food quiz 2018
Here in the soufflé and whisk of Christmas cheer I have decided to give you something,. I know, iI know, all you have done is taken, but I’m so generous, that even though you have scraped my bowl clean, mopped…
Eat Your Mummy With Some Herbs
It’s that time of year when we all start considering the more horrible, ghastly side of this multiverse. The one where the ghost of your Aunt Mildred is still rattling around in the kitchen, looking for her golden syrup tin…
Purple Velvet, In Your Face
Beetroot is the super hero of any diet, diving through with antioxidants, fibre, Vitamin A and C. Let’s powerhouse through to Boctober or Beetrember, or one of those combined with another terrible portmanteau that just says, it’s good for you…
Hairy Sister
I’ve just been on holiday in Espana. Yes, I have, for two weeks doing sod all other than wondering what I wanted for dinner and whether I had the energy to take the parasol down. I could hardly be bothered…
A fever that’s so hard to bear
I have been investigating food that helps prevent sunburn. Yes, prevent, that means before one turns into the Swiss flag, one could employ some measures to be more like that famous flag, tan and brown, the one that doesn’t exist.…
Burn my Cucumber
“It’s hard being hot,” that’s what the chilli says to the bell pepper, “People are either obsessed with you, or dislike you and ignore you at parties.” The bell pepper sighs, bored with the attention-seeking ways of the chilli, but…
Rempah Malaysian Kitchen
So I was pootling around in my car, doing my delivering as I do and lost in my own thoughts, obsessing about things that I can’t change, like my carpets and everything that is, only to be pulled back to…
Goat Ledge – Why the big plaice?
If you weren’t on the hill this Bank Holiday, pretending the heat was fun or down amongst the bikes, or on the pier for Appetite, or just in your garden without your clothes on, rolling around in jelly and ice…
I’m so green, I married a lawnmower
Here in the land of food we are celebrating greenness. Food that is so green, you can feel the envy ooze out of it and corrupt your innocent satisfied mind, turning you into wild vegetable jealousy, that seeing your partner…
It really is Time2Dance
Academy Time 2 Dance reached its 16th birthday at the White Rock, this February. It’s a huge, three-day dance extravaganza involving over 870 students, from 32 schools and numerous community groups around Hastings and Rother. This mind-bendingly complicated feat has…