
April 2024 Newsletter
Bilbao, San Sebastian, and Basque Cheesecake
Stories and lots of unfussy recipes to try, all from my kitchen in Toulouse
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Bilbao, San Sebastian, and Basque Cheesecake

Why spring cooking stresses me out

French musicals, a pub quiz from hell, and a hot cross bun treacle tart

For the perfect slap-up Easter Sunday celebration

I write this from a blustery Somerset where that old Ford cars expression is a permanent pathetic fallacy - “you can have any weather you desire, as long as it’s rain.” Somerset truly fits the cliche of pastoral England; the rambling green hills, the drizzle, and the water droplets clinging to the window, all to the soundtrack of loud caws as crows flap overhead. There are no street lights so…

Can it be true? The French are copying... British food?!

The iconic foods of Toulouse and my issue with brunch

The battle with beige

January chugged into February with me and a group of friends here in France (literally known as The Group on our group chat) all aboard the birthday train - a statistically improbable number of birthdays from late January to mid-February, so there were parties and cakes and copious g&ts and bottles of red to celebrate.

Turns out, the British and the French have more in common than we'd like