By dmg on 3/10/2008 10:54 PM

I have just been watching Delia Smiths new cookery programme.   I am a great fan of Delia Smith – my children particularly the older ones are less enthusiastic.  This has probably something to do with my olive and sun dried tomato phase of cooking.

My kids did not approve of and still talk about olives and sun dried tomatoes with great distain.  That is the most annoying thing about kids, unless you push their boundaries most of them are quite content to stick with “nursery food” like shepherds pie, macaroni cheese and the like.

The reason I mention this programme is that it has been quite controversial in “cookery terms” Because good old Delia is telling us how to cheat.   Similar to the Nigella Express programme but somehow different. 

I am all for saving time in the kitchen which is why I was keen to watch ... Read More »

By dmg on 3/3/2008 11:02 PM

Today I am going to have a bit of rant.  Why - well I had the most frustrating experience  - along with with hundres of other people today.  The thing which made it even more frustrating was that it was avoidable..

So what is it.  Well this morning I set off very early (about 6:20 am), to take my step children to school.  The journey takes a good two hours in the rush hour .

Today the weather was good and we felt quite pleased that we had made good time. I dropped my stepson off promptly at 8:30am and turned back out onto the road to conintue the journey to my step daughters school which should take another ten to twleve minutes.  Today as we turned back on to the road we were  met with stationary traffic which we sat in while the minutes ticked away.

It was obvious after about twenty minutes when we had not gone very far that my stepdaughter was going to be very late for school. ... Read More »