In just 15 minutes and with his back turned, Gordon Ramsay challenges an amateur to keep ...
Food, Wine & Beverages
Irish apple cake
A recipe from Kitchen Nostalgia for moist Irish Apple cake which interestingly doesn’t include cinnamon! I hope ...
Love cake
A special sumptuous recipe with quite a few (claimed) aphrodisiacal ingredients like rose water, honey, nutmeg, ...
Oily Rag tips – shopping smarter
What are your grocery shopping tips and tricks to help keep your bills low? Do you shop ...
Plum and apple cobbler
Make hay while the sun shines. If you don’t have plums in your garden your neighbour or ...
Oily rag tips – flavoured butter
Do you have a simple recipe or trick you use to take a meal from drab ...
Smokey pulled pork with summer slaw
A delicous take on the American classic, accompanied by fresh, crisp slaw. Ingredients Pork ½ pork ...
Feeding the Grandkids
In my experience you can't go wrong with perennial favourites like roast chicken or barbecued sausages. They're evergreen family favourites and I can't imagine them ever growing out of them.
4 tips to create your own BBQ marinades
The perfect BBQ marinade requires four key elements: Salt, Oil, Spices, and Acid. Salt. Salt is probably the ...
Cool Comfort
I don't know what it is about eating outdoors but I love it. A cup of coffee and a croissant for breakfast outside on the deck; a light lunch and perhaps a glass of wine in the sunny courtyard of a downtown café; dinner under the stars; I love them all.