Store cupboard BBQ sauce

My daughter is cross with me. She asked how I make BBQ sauce and apparently I did not give a satisfactory answer.

Lemon iced tea, UK stylee

I don’t drink fizzy pop but I do love iced tea in hot weather. It’s taken me years though to work out how to make it. The problem is that we don’t traditionally drink a lot of iced tea in the UK, so all the instructions I found were American. And American tea bags are…

Kitchen garden update

This is supposed to be a blog about making things easy, and gardening in the UK has not been easy for anyone this year.

Coconut milk granita

The ice cream van never stops here. It whizzes past, breaking my heart by singing its siren song to the houses behind us.

Gazpacho for cheats

When it’s as hot as it’s been recently, I crave gazpacho. This means confronting a few problems.

We want pockets!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you say “Nice dress!” to a woman wearing a dress with pockets, she must put her hands in them and swing the dress about saying, “Thank you! Look – pockets!” This is the Pocket Frock Law.