Author Archives: Becky

Honestly, I don’t see how we can manage that. The reason this recommendation has arisen is because the quality of our soil is so poor that the nutritional content of our fruits and vegetables is much lower than ever before. It seems that whilst many people watch videos and programmes about cooking, not many ofContinue reading “How about 10 a day…?”

For many years we’ve implored everyone to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables every day. All the pupils who passed through my classroom had those three words drilled into them ! Now it seems that unfortunately, most people in the UK probably only eat two or three portions. We know we need the vitamins,Continue reading “Five a day?”

We spent several lovely days in Somerset recently, meeting up with some of our favourite young people. I always feel we’re nearly there when we pass Stonehenge and was surprised to see so many caravans parked nearby but of course the solstice would have been a draw. Once Glastonbury Tor came into view I knewContinue reading “Home again!”

There seem to have been quite a number of visitors to our little seaside town this week. Some of them have come with a party by coach and others just to have a day out, checking a place for the first time. Many of them are surprised that there’s more than the port, but aContinue reading “Shop locally!”

Well, on the gnocchi front I’m afraid to admit defeat. I’ve tried several ways to make them more palatable and even hubby admits it’s not worth the bother! To get it really crisp you need to use a lot of butter in the frying pan, with a high temperature. Adding olive oil prevents the butterContinue reading “Update…”

This is a date I will never ignore. We were living in Lexington, South Carolina, hubby was working in Manchester, New Hampshire. I’d taken the children to school and was helping an ex-pat friend make fabric pelmets for the tops of the windows in her rented house. Standing at the ironing board, the phone rang.Continue reading “9/11”

Gnocchi ! (Pronounced “nyockey”) Try as I might, I find it hard to enjoy gnocchi – it’s that soggy, sticky texture that leaves me cold. However, recently I’ve come across a couple of recipes which looked quite appealing. So a trip to one of our bigger supermarkets meant I could investigate the range and foundContinue reading “Knock, knock…”

There was very little in my diary when I checked last Sunday. That didn’t last long as we’d accumulated quite a number of items which needed to be delivered to one of our young friends – in Norwich. Always a treat to visit Norfolk and Monday turned out to be the day for a meanderContinue reading “Phew!”

Obviously we’re all delighted to have seen some rain in our corner of East Anglia, but we need more please – the grass still looks like sand, just the weeds are green 😉 More worrying, though, has been the revelations about Salmonella in imported eggs – again. The eggs in our big supermarkets come fromContinue reading “In the news again…”

Having had another week of high temperatures, it’s really difficult to think about cooking. Yesterday afternoon I needed to make cake for the Friday delivery to the beleagured shopkeepers, but it had to be something quick and easy, requiring very little thought. My immediate thought was Lemon Drizzle Cake as there would be enough forContinue reading “The heat’s still on…”