The national dish of the Dutch is an apple crumble pie. It's really indulgent; a rich pastry filled with apples and sultanas, cinnamon and sugar. The topping is traditional crumble, and it's baked.It is, as you'd expect, utterly delicious. We had it with vanilla ice cream, but it would work just as well with cream …
Tag: grow up
Food with a heavy heart
I'm writing this with a somewhat heavy heart. Today's dish is inspired by Iran. I used the recipe from the RAF cookbook which is a chicken dish with a yogurt dressing, lemony rocket salad, and lavash. This is served with a quick cooked flatbread. The chicken is marinated overnight in a mix of onions, yogurt, …
Recipe source
Before I launch into everything I'm cooking and eating, I thought I'd share the source for a number of recipes. A few years ago, around 2018/2019 while we were visiting the in-laws, we visited RAF Cosford in Shropshire. It's not far from Telford or Ironbridge, and has 5 hangars of aircraft showing the history of …
Alternative World Cup
Hopefully you saw my feelings regarding the forthcoming world cup, and the human rights track record of Qatar in both the building of the stadia and the use of migrant workers, as well as their treatment of the LGBTQ community. It doesn't sit well with me and I doubt I'm alone. So, an alternative world …
Grown up presentation
I had originally titled this post ‘Pointless and distracting Powerpoint graphics’ and while that was overly wordy, it also didn’t cover everything that annoyed me. For years I’ve been working in organisations where the use of PP has been prevalent, who hasn’t? It did it exactly what is supposed to, show slides. In the initial …