I put two recipes together for lunch - I added cooked potatoes to an omelette masala and cooked it like a Spanish tortilla, topping with halved cherry tomatoes and finishing under the grill. Definitely one to repeat.

No real idea about tonight, might be fish.

I always like the look of a masala dabba but wouldn’t want one. First I’ve nowhere’s to put it. Second they all have glass lids, and spices in glass in my very bright kitchen must go into a dark cupboard (or a tin). I once left a new jar of paprika out in the light and it went from brick red to sepi...

Food processor completely kneads a loaf of bread in 60 seconds, so I can’t see it requiring manual kneading as well.

Important to use the dough blade, which lifts the dough off the base of the processor goblet.

I’ve had Kaletters a few times haven’t seen any for ages. Quite like them but one lot had tough central stems, as psb sometimes does.

As out just had some 4 cheese tortellini cooked with some broccoli and finished with a tiny dab of pesto.

Artichoke hearts, chicken, lemon and FLAGEOLET BEANS in a stew

Loaf looks great, I used to get big slabs of very fresh yeast from a food cooperative and freeze in single use portions, it lasted well but that was long ago, I've now given up on fresh yeast, all I can buy round here is little blocks of German imported yeast in yellow paper, extortionately priced a...

I’ll take that chile as chips and say garlic mayo (aïoli) with baby NEW POTATOES

Sounds good WW, hope the 4-legged chum got some scraps I made a big pan of cheese sauce to use up excess milk - it’s better made in a batch large enough to weigh out the Ingredients and take time I find, I froze 3 portions for further reference and used some to dress a mix ip of cauliflower and broc...

Last night I got round to making the sour chickpea curry so I also made a cauliflower and potato side and had some of each with rice and raita v

Liver and bacon with ONION gravy

Had a late lunch of a falafel wrap from the Lebanese stall in the market, have a sambuusa (Lebanese's samosa to have as snack before I go out

I cooked some chick peas to make a curry but had some tricky admin, finished late, no longer felt like cooking So have banked the chickpeas, had a Waitrose venison burger with lots of veg, cranberry sauce and a spot of pan gravy made with the dregs of a jar of caramelised onion relish May get more b...

I kept the landline mainly so that there was a reliable phone on a docking station, so I could find it in the dark, at all times. And when I made the decision using my mobile inside the flat wasn’t very reliable. As the VOIP phone doesn’t work in a power cut and the mobile service is now reliable (I...

Ça allo nero in a ribollita with cannellini BEANS

Excellent!

I was a bit sceptical of "Montmorency Cherries" so I did kust a little digging, both the BMJ and the British Rheumatology society think any tart cherries will do (and the US NIH thinks cherries may really help), I suppose the idea that the cherries have to be the Montmorency variety may be...

I’m with Virgin who are also, like all suppliers, moving from old school copper wire phones to broadband (VOIP) phones, when my old line developed a fault I was switched early, the old phone works (very old ones may need to be replaced), the only difference I notice is that the phone is now on my de...

Jersey - Gold Top - makes a real difference to a crème CARAMEL

You can keep a BT email address if you move from BT but they charge you a fee

Where did the cherries come from? Must surely be southern hemisphere at this time of year? Sorry about the gout, nasty, Doesn't it have to be "tart" cherry juice to benefit gout? Might be worth trying a Turkish or Polish shop, I see Aytac the major Turkish grocery brand have pure cherry ju...