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  “Many’s the long night I have dreamed of cheese – toasted mostly” said poor Ben Gunn after being marooned three years on Treasure Island, “and woke up again and here I were … You mightn’t happen to have a piece of cheese about you now?” Poor man, its pathetic isn’t it? To think of

As a baker, ingredients have of course, always been a source of interest to me and here in Spain there are a great many local ingredients readily available in abundance that back in the UK always had to be imported. This of course meant large variations of price throughout the year. Spain is the second

Diet coke:  zero calories, zero sugar, and zero carbs?  I have often wondered how a liquid so flavourful and similar to its calorie-filled sister product, Coke, can possibly have these properties and not be bad for me. How do they do it? The answer: Aspartame.  The truth: aspartame is far more dangerous and pricier than

How’s everything where you are? How are you coping with getting back to some sort of normality? My Good Wishes to you all. It has been a tough year here where I am too, although things are now sorting themselves out a little. We care still not allowed into shops, etc. without a mask, but

Good Morning and welcome to Monday, the start of another week which looks very different to last Saturday when I was busy making Crumpets to enjoy over the weekend sitting on my terrace under the grape vines with a nice cup of tea. Well, unfortunately that didn’t happen, due to the fact that both myself

WHAT A LITTLE GEM THE CUCUMBER IS. I WILL LOOK AT IT DIFFERENTLY NOW. 1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc. 2. Feeling tired in the

It’s quite a few years now since I moved to Spain and although one tends to take most things for granted after all that time, but there are still a few things I still  really appreciate and never get tired of, and one of those is the excellent fish available everywhere you go. My first

As many of you know my early childhood was spent travelling the highways and byways of the UK with my parents and grand parents in a horse drawn caravan or Vardo as we called them. Yes, my family were Romany Gypsies. Our only method of cooking was on the Hog ( a stick fire) outside,