Gosh!  Remember in the not too distant past when not too much was happening in the sphere of world destabilisation?  In the period between the Cold War slowly melting and the rise of the supposed WMDs, things were fairly quiet on the Western Front.  So, like any self respecting civilisation, we decided to go to… Read more

My friend Maria told me about some cooking demonstrations she went to regularly.  She talked about how interesting they were and how amusing the presenter was.  Early in the new year, she sent an email with a list of up coming demonstrations so I chose a topic I thought we’d both be interested in and… Read more

We’re always on a tight schedule on weekends, packing in as much as possible.  This year we’ve been trying to see more movies and have made a good stab of it, with 5 visits racked up.  On Sunday we had decided to see Lincoln and for once, had enough time up our sleeves to grab… Read more

Eighteen months ago, I’d never been to a cooking school or food workshop. Now, it seems every other weekend I’m off to learn something new. This time last year I was in Bali, doing a Casa Luna class, this time a few weeks ago I was enthralled in a Fermented Foods workshop but today, it… Read more

This month, ‘The Choice is Yours’, Dom from Belleau Kitchen suggests.  He’s asked us to ‘go back to the very beginning’ when Random Recipes first started.  Recipe selection in the first RR challenge was simplicity itself ‘pick & point’.  As I didn’t participate in the early RRs, this is a chance to go back to… Read more

Local &/or General is the title of a song by The Models.  Not when they were in their chart topping phase but earlier on, in their edgy, urban grit phase, prior to James Freud joining.  It’s a song that’s always stuck in my mind and it seemed like an appropriate title for this occasional series of reviews… Read more