Whiskey, wine and well-crafted writing all take time to develop. Recently, I was discussing my fiction writing process with my daughter. My stories, I told her, sometimes took years to develop. The layering process that gives the story richness, depth,…
Easy Tasty Smoked Salmon Bake
You can imagine yourself eating this easy, tasty smoked salmon bake with a salad and a crisp sauvignon blanc on a trellised balcony overlooking the water. Hauling it out with a flourish for your friends at a spring picnic under…
Watermelon and Apple Salad with Pistachios
Watermelon Whether hot, humid,Arid or dry,Tropical storm orEvening pall,Refresh me, quenchMy thirst, cool myEssence with yourLanguid, pinkOpen flesh, your sweetNectar of fields.©elsp2025 With that out of the way, let’s talk about watermelon and apple salad with pistachios! Scientists tracing the…
Honey and Garlic Salmon Bake
It’s Wednesday night. You need to throw something together quickly, otherwise you may just order pizza again. Well, you could just order pizza … … or you could open the pack of salmon in the fridge, make do whatever else…
My Very Eton Mess
Love that they call these (photo above) meringue nests, as if the meringue are wee, fey creatures of the forest! This is a dessert that falls most definitely under the cbf cooking category (excuse my language!). Unless you’re making the…
Happy New Year 2025!
Six months ago, when I first set up this blog, choosing a theme, working my way through tutorials on how to set up a website, swearing at my tech inadequacies, I kept four words in my head. “Give it six…
A Lunch Room For The Heart
There are people who go through life with seemingly no illness, or problems, or even concern about other people. Everything is easily shrugged off. Perhaps, they live in the body, and not the head and heart? Then there are people…
Apricot Chicken Pot Roast
If you are at all a fan of the 1970s, then you should be dancing … yeah? … and eating apricot chicken pot roast!! 🪩 I like to think of apricots as the smaller cousins of peaches and nectarines. They’re…
Easy Roasted Vegetable and Ricotta Tart
Strangely, not too many serious ricotta poems out there I could find to accompany this easy roasted vegetable and ricotta tart recipe. So, I attempted one. Anti-age cream I applyto transform wrinkles.Ricotta dressed up as cheese. -©ELSP 2024 So, who…
The Old Keg of Rum … Balls
My name is old Jack Palmer, I’m a man of olden days,And so I wish to sing a song To you of olden praise.To tell of merry friends of old When we were gay and young;How we sat and sang…
Honeycomb & Fudge Vanilla Ice Cream Cake
Well, the internet hole I fell down this time was trying to find a worldwide term for honeycomb (honeycomb candy, hokey pokey, cinder toffee, sponge candy … sea foam?) Hey, I said, honeycomb – not honey! And what everyone in…
Unglamorous Steak Recipe
These photos are the dream. Open fire. Big smoky flavours. The comforting crackle of wood burning. Fat dripping and hissing on the flames. The pine-scented air of the great outdoors. A whiskey flask. A soulful harmonica. And something like this…
