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4 Reasons To Get In The Kitchen with Kids and Cook!

October 19, 2023 By Ellen

  Cooking is one of the best skills you can teach your children, and having them help out in the kitchen in any way can support healthy development and give them valuable life skills as they grow up.   Cooking can help you incorporate many different skills and assist with their development in many different […]

Filed Under: 365, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: cooking, education, family, kids, Review

Layers – 100 words

June 4, 2023 By Ellen

Layers Lasagne, remote from Italy, but I don’t mind sometimes I soak pasta so it scissors for neater layers, sometimes I forget, then it snaps hidden veg gets blended, then fried with pancetta, or not, if I forgot, if I’m healthy, I drop mopped fat, plop in the bin (septic tanks don’t stomach it well) […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cooking, creative writing, lasagne

92 words

December 2, 2021 By Ellen

One of my favourite sounds is the silence that flops onto my table when heads bend over plates and forks get to work. The attention to the cook’s labours, the answer to hunger’s rumble. For a while the belly filling is the only thing until someone remembers that we’re not animals allowed to respond to […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, cooking, creative writing, food

Things I think about ‘best before’ dates

November 13, 2020 By Ellen

Shops have a vague idea when the produce will be past it, then they subtract about a week and call it the ‘best before’ date. It seems pretty unscientific for fresh things and almost entirely meaningless for canned food. Especially so for water or salt – which don’t, as far as I know, go off. […]

Filed Under: things I learned from my children today Tagged With: best before, cooking, food, in my life, in the world, My Life, sell-by, shops

Through a smart phone lens – more pictures

July 6, 2020 By Ellen

Right. You nailed it: I can’t be bothered to write a proper post right now. Instead you might be charmed and entertained (though probably not) by some of the stuff I’ve taken pictures of lately. Today Boy Three and I cycled to Paisley and most of the way back again. On the plus side we […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: boys, cooking, cycle, jam, nature, Paisley, snails, summer, turnover

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