by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Oct 28, 2017 | Entertainment, Family, Food
Halloween in the twenty-first century is how I know I am not a genuinely modern person. I am a twentieth century person in disguise. Yes, I love some of the innovations of this millennium. Park Assist is just great, Netflix has changed my life and I’m genuinely...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Oct 8, 2017 | Food
It pains me to say it, but I think my culinary skills may well have peaked thirty seven years ago. Back then I knew my way around a slow cooker. I was au fait with a béchamel sauce and I could squeeze a lemon like a pro. These days I sit around with my girlfriends...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Sep 3, 2017 | Food, Health
It is July 1981. A breezy, chill morning in a bleak field somewhere unpronounceable in Wales. A group of exhausted Girl Guides is sitting on home-made foil-and-plastic mats staring at the pot on the fire at the centre of the circle. Their guide leader, a stout woman...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 16, 2017 | Family, Food
When the film ‘Nine and a Half Weeks’ came out in 1986 I was very taken with that iconic kitchen scene. Wow! All that fresh stuff in that clean fridge! A turn-on in itself. Strawberries and cherries beautifully ripe! Chilled wine and a perfectly set jelly!...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 9, 2017 | Food
There are few things I enjoy more on toast than a smashed avocado topped with a poached egg and a sprinkle of Maldon sea salt flakes. I realise I am in danger of sounding like one of the legion avocadophiles who daily bombard social media sites with images of green...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 9, 2017 | Food
My toe hurts. It hurts because I opened the fridge at work and a Millennial’s Fruit Infuser Water Bottle filled with a litre of fruit infused water, fell on it. It was my introduction to Fruit Infuser Water Bottles – plastic bottles with a cylinder insert...
