Half Hour Meals

Dining with the Toffs: Lady Maclean’s Diplomatic Dishes

Mooching about our rented holiday villa, sorry, amazingly huge palazzo in Croatia, I found an extraordinary cookbook, Lady Maclean’s Diplomatic Dishes.  Veronica Maclean was a Scottish blue-blood, born to Lord and Lady Lovat in 1920, photog (read full article)

Oddities and Food Stories, Pasta, Truffle dishes

Ah, sunny days.

From our last hols... Will be taking a short, week long summer break.  Back to blogging on Monday, 16th August.  Sunny days are here again, fingers crossed it stays that way! (read full article)

Croatia: Cool People and They Make Minestrone

Summer Minestrone Recipe Summer Minestrone Soup My hub gets a bit anxious about my allergies whenever we go anywhere odd/ vaguely exotic.  I joined him on a business trip a couple of years back, and he had one of his staff in Singapore translate my (read full article)

Easy-Cook, food, minestrone, Pasta, Pasta Recipes, Recipes, Soup, Summer Minestrone

I Really Made My Own Pesto…

Pesto Ingredients And I have the evidence to prove it…above the assembled ingredients, which I think not a bad pic considering it was taken with my iPhone.  I used Nick Nairn’s recipe, as I trailed in my previous post on this. The fi (read full article)

Easy-Cook, food, Pasta, Pasta Recipes, pesto, Recipes

Pesto: What a Gift

Pesto Recipe Ideas Shame on me!  For I do not make my own pesto…Lord, my life sucks sometimes, I really ought to get it together to produce some home-made.  It is not so difficult or time-consuming and there is plenty of advice and good looki (read full article)

Easy-Cook, Fish & Seafood Recipes, food, Pasta, Pasta Recipes, pesto, Recipe Memory Lists, Recipes, Seafood, Vegetarian Vegetables