I'm an avid recipe reader and now have a huge collection of recipes I have been able to cut out plus the handwritten ones and put into scrapbooks. Every so often - not that often, if the truth be told - I have a purge and throw out the ones that tu...

upside-down pear and ginger cake - does it look yum or what?A long-awaited visit from old friends from America was all it took to make me  try this latest find from the November issue of Olive– I have to add the words Comfort Food Special were writ...

What could symbolise the end of summer more than these scorched sunflowers?Field upon field of them all the way back to Istanbul.The lovely long hot summer is over. The last couple of months spent in our village with new little granddaughter now 12...