No, not mine, silly. The last Indian telegram will be sent on July 15th 2013 and we intend to be there to bid it adieu. Continue reading
It’s the DH’s birthday today and his birthday coincides with Heston Blumenthal’s show, ‘How to Cook like Heston’. No fear, there’s no dry ice used here. The man has come up with a genius new way to make white sauce – no roux, no milk even! Sometimes it’s good to let tradition go. Here’s a Heston inspired pre-birthday dinner. Continue reading
He’s not retiring Replicants and he’s not smuggling Samurai swords across borders but he does respect the blade – the sharper he can get it, the better. He’s the door-to-door knife sharpener that comes by every Sunday. Along with the wailing call of the Kabadiwala for ‘payper and bothal’, the high pitched grating and sparking of his portable rotating knife sharpening stone, attached to a foot pedal, is part of the Sunday morning bird song . Continue reading
