April 29, 2010 | Fresh and green and yummy

Greens

Eat your greens, or, as Dad puts it, green your eats. Greens – the young leafy tops of various brassicas (cabbage family) and other leafy green veg (kale, spinach, chard, collards etc) are very accessible to young tastebuds if treated in the right way. They must be finely chopped or sliced, not overcooked (soggy) or [...]

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April 26, 2010 | Dad got married...

Maremma Sheepdog

…a few years back and yesterday was the anniversary  (Love you, Mrs Dad!). Some friends and family have an interest in a big old castle in an unspoilt corner of central Italy known as the Maremma. If you are a dog lover, you may know the Maremma sheepdog, big and white. As a foodie [...]

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April 20, 2010 | Stork

During a break from flapping around with babies in pretty bundles and depositing them under the bush in his garden, Stork made a return visit to Dad the other day, in the guise of a baking fat. At a little get together to make fairy cakes and Victoria Sponges at the Good Housekeeping Institute in the [...]

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April 3, 2010 | Soho leaflets

Watercress

Dad had a bit of a night out in Soho last week. Not jazz, not slinky dancing, but to the Soho Hotel, a ritzy modern temple to Soho’s position as a global media production centre.

From a ghastly `60s car park, inappropriately dumped on Wardour Street and redundant now that no-one drives into Soho, has [...]

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