by Hannah | Feb 20, 2018 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Summer was made for salads. Or is it that salads were made for summer? Our summer has been incredibly hot, tropical and steamy; far too hot for cooking. I seem to be able to bear the heat for cake making (like this one, summer fruit skillet cake) but not for...
by Hannah | Sep 2, 2017 | From Hannah, How She (or he) Does It, Interviews, Kids and Parenting
I am not a grown-up. Surely I can’t be a grown-up if I sulk at having to fold the laundry or stack the dishwasher. I can’t be a grown-up if I still don’t quite understand the stock market. I mustn’t be a grown-up if I can’t change a car tyre or properly control my own...
by Hannah | Jul 19, 2017 | From Hannah, How She (or he) Does It
I turned 38 on Monday. On learning it was my birthday several people asked me if it was a “big one”. I’m assuming they weren’t guessing I was turning 30. Hmmmm. The last years of a decade are weird. It’s not an elegant way to describe it, I know, but...
by Hannah | Jun 14, 2017 | Food, From Hannah, Markets & Food Stores, Travel, Writing
Is it a croissant? Is it a brioche? Is it a kind of donut?! Nope, it’s kouign-amann. My romance with kouign-amann began with a hunt for the setting for my next novel. Already a Francophile I had a few ideas about where I wanted to set A French Wedding...
by Hannah | Jul 8, 2015 | From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
You know winter and I don’t exactly… love one another (body of evidence one and two). I’d quite comfortably make like a bear all season and simply eat, grizzle and snooze. The idea of heading somewhere even colder hardly seemed like a solution. But...
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