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For breakfast!!! The most I can cope with is a slice of toast or, if I'm feeling stronger a small bowl of cereal (and several cups of strong tea!). My knees wobble at the thought of eating steak, eggs and potatoes when I'm barely conscious!!

I was answering Cooking Goddess remark. I've lready talked about breakfast

Currently I'm watching "Grimm" - I know, I know.... Also repeats of "The Big Bang Theory" - It isn't that far fetched - I knew characters like them when I was a student!!! "Downton Abbey" is on again on British TV but not at times I can watch - and anyway I watched the original. It was...

I make bread often and when using seeds on the uncooked loaves or bread rolls I always use the untoasted variety, Have you tried them toasted and scattered on breakfast cereal?

Only just found this - Addie, I am so sorry for your loss and I'm thinking of you.

Hi, CG. I've not had email access for over a year due to breach of contract on the behalf of the supplier. (If anyone lives in the United Kingdom and is tempted by "TalkTalk's" TV ads beware!!) I had an intermittent service for two weeks after I signed on and then nothing. Letters sent by post...

Kellogg's "All Bran" with fruit and cold (semi-skimmed) milk for breakfast this morning - I think All Bran's addictive - I sometimes nibble a few "sticks" of it dry when it takes my fancy (I don't like chocolate) and I use it in a cake recipe too. OK so I'm weird!

I'm not an expert in these matters but I think you need some professional help. I know things medical are expensive in the USA so is there perhaps a self-help group that you could join ? There's a web-site that might help with your anxiety. It's a British National Health Service web-site but...

If you make bread regularly or would just like to get more information, Elizabeth David's "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" is a fascinating read as well as a good technical source. Published in 1977 but (I think) it's still in print but in any case there are copies on Amazon. Jane Grigson...

If you make bread regularly or would just like to get more information, Elizabeth David's "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" is a fascinating read as well as a good technical source. Published in 1977 but (I think) it's still in print but in any case there are copies on Amazon. Jane Grigson...

As a student I shared a flat with an Indian girl (no, I'm not insulting Native Americans). She used to hold the na'an in a pair of tongs and hold it over a naked gas flame on the slightly ricketty old student cooker. It puffed up beautifully but it was a bit of a strain on the nerves of anyone...

"I was Born Under A Wand'ring Star" - I can't remember the grizzly-voiced actor who sang it (but I can see his face) or the name of the 1970s film (but seem to remember that it wasn't very good).

I don't like fried eggs but my mother did them in a little oil or bacon fat in the frying pan but a former flatmate used to deep-fry them (shell-less!) in the chip (= french fries - I think) pan - bleuch!

Just about to look for my mother's recipe for beetroot and apple chutney (quite sweet as chutneys go but so not as vinegar-y and no hot spices as in a lot of other chutneys so, according to my Mother, it's suitable for children). I made some apple chutney in the autumn - the recipe includes...

According to Ina Garten (Jewish- American TV cook) "Kosher" Salt is called that because it's used for "koshering" meat in line with religious requirements, not because the salt itself specially treated under religious rules. It is different in that it has much larger crystals the ordinary table...

Hi, Dragonlaw. "I used to repair horse blankets for my boarders" made me laugh. I know what you mean but I was amused by the above sentence. Over here "boarders" can mean pupils in a boarding school (ie where the pupils live in at school during term time) or lodgers/paying guests in your...

Hi, Addie. It just shows how long it is since I was on-line. Glad to hear you're getting on so well. Sadly the parent and children thing often doesn't always work. Often parents hurry past with lowered gaze, telling the child that "it's rude to stare and comment". I'm using a walking stick more...

Next week I'm on Poppy selling duty in the entrance to the local supermarket (the only time I go in there - they belong to Walmart - 'nuff said!) The Royal British Legion is a UK charity providing lifelong support for the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, Reservists, veterans, and...

Going to make some scones (biscuits to you) and biscuits (cookies to you). "Two nations divided by a common language" or words to that effect ;-D

"Chant Down, Babylon" Bob Marley

Help needed. My question about brownies is to do with squigey-ness. Whenever I've tried to make them both from British AND American recipes they always come out like cake rather than a bit "pudding-y" like the brownies I've seen on Food Network. The only thing I can put it down to is the...

I was totally obsessed with show-jumping on TV when I was a little girl ad my Dad used to let me stay up to watch it on TV. Now I'm older I find I can't watch it. I'm not worried about the riders coming off but the thought of the horses being injured is what does it. Silly really because...

British TV has a programme called "Saturday Kitchen Live" (It wouldn't be much point in it being "Saturday Kitchen Dead") which I rarely watch but last Saturday I turned on the television early to watch something else and caught th last part of it. The programme has "celebrities" who are...

Kale was always cattle feed when I was a girl. Vile stuff (and it's the only brassica I dislike!!). Just another thing that chefs who want to make a name for themselves force on to the gullible. I liked tripe when I was little (the white honey-comb variety with vinegar and pepper) but...

"They Can't Take That Away From Me" Frank Sinatra et al