Posted by: AM on: May 6, 2008
I don’t know why anybody buys cookbooks any more. According to a ‘thinking allowed’ podcast I listened to last week it’s a matter of signalling to your peers what kind of person you are. I suppose in the old days you could judge someone by their record collection, and then their CD collection. Now everybody [...]
Posted by: AM on: April 20, 2008
I was given four free bananas yesterday by the french girl who runs the organic vegetable stall at the English market. This was less of a come-on than it might sound, because she gave some to the guy in front of me as well – though of course she could have just been attempting to [...]
Posted by: AM on: April 6, 2008
Last week I bought a bag of Granny Smith apples from Tesco. Two days later they all developed slightly dark streaks on the skin, and I didn’t want to eat them. This is probably because Tesco insist on the use of some cocktail of pesticides and embalming chemicals to keep them green and shiny up [...]
Posted by: AM on: March 2, 2008
Mmmmm… I made this yesterday, and finished it just moments ago. It’s just an apple tart, with a sweet almond filling. It’s light and delicious. I’ll post photos as soon as I can work out how to fix it so they don’t expand to way beyond the size of my screen.
For the filling
3 sharp apples, [...]
