My ten day journey walking coast to coast.
Food
Recipes for a long walk
Two years ago I 'did' the camino pilgrimage to Santiago de la Compostella. Since then we have been through a global pandemic and well, I have done nothing. I've had spates of exercise: a bit of zoom ...
Summer at last: panzanella, bread salad, recipes
Tentatively we may just be entering some kind of summer, we can finally put away our umbrellas and turn off the heating. Bindweed and brambles are covering the garden, having rejoiced in the ...
A Twitter pile-on and a recipe for Ligurian focaccia
This week hasn't been pleasant. I made what I thought was a kind comment on a Twitter thread in which a woman talked about the death of her twin brother who refused to get vaccinated. A month ago he ...
A rainbow of risottos
Risotto rice is short and round with a nutty core, deriving from the same cultivar as Japonica rice, similar to sushi rice. A good risotto rice has a white 'pearl' in each grain, which resists ...
Travel
Glasgow elections, what I ate
I just found this post in my drafts which I obviously forgot to publish or maybe I thought it was a bit shit. Anyway, out of date though it is, here you go. I've been to Glasgow loads of times ...
The Full Indian at Batley and Spen by-election
This weekend I drove up to Yorkshire to cover the Batley and Spen by-election. Batley is a small town, surrounded by rolling green hills, yellow York stone cottages and the towers of disused cloth ...
Parmo and politics in Hartlepool
This bank holiday weekend, my daughter, who is editor of Labour List, was driving up to Hartlepool and Glasgow to cover, respectively, the by-election and the Scottish parliament elections. I scraped ...
How to make Easter eggs
It's been a long hard winter. I broke my ankle three days after my birthday in January which made an isolated and difficult lockdown that bit harder. I had to wear an airboot day and night, even in ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.