by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 24, 2018 | Entertainment, Food
Turns out the week just gone was ‘National Picnic Week.’ I didn’t have a picnic. But it’s ok, because that was just a marketing gimmick and there’s plenty of time for picnicking and, unusually for the UK, there’s plenty of good weather in which to do it. Which is all...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 22, 2018 | Food, Talking Points
Remind me in twenty minutes that I have a cake in the oven. It’s a parsnip and maple cake, described by BBC Good Food as ‘easy.’ I’ve made it for my friend’s birthday dinner. It wasn’t ‘easy.’ It was stressful and time...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 1, 2018 | Food
That bloody Easter Bunny has been again. Oh I could swing him around by his cottony bobtail! Curse that rabbit and his chocolate droppings! My cupboard is awash with myriad sweet treats pertaining to a festival I long since stopped celebrating. (Once you’ve had to...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 18, 2018 | Family, Food
I’ve just done a terrible thing. I’ve lied to a friend. She invited my husband and me to dinner with some pals of hers she thinks we’ll like. Always a tricky one, this business of meeting other people’s friends. It’s fraught with danger. Will we have to sublimate our...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jan 21, 2018 | Food, Health
I’d be surprised if the broad beans are still sleeping in their blankety bed after the recent furore surrounding the cauliflowers (fluffy). Yes, all is not well on the allotment. The cauliflower has been brought back down to earth. If ever any story were more...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jan 7, 2018 | Food
2018 started with a storm and a tea cup. On a cold, New York night, Mariah Carey took to the stage in Times Square to sing in the New Year and asked for a sip of hot tea to stave off the freezing temperatures. Just as any woman in Executive Youth would. Because tea...
