The Writing Closet

Living with a great cook gives me the freedom to learn how to cook by making fun food - no one starves in the process.  When I decided to c...

Mary Berry's HUMONGOUS cheese straws. When I was a kid & we pestered Mom for snacks, her favourite answer was, ‘There’s c...

My mother was a big believer in giving her kids a hot breakfast before school.  When I took charge of my own larder, my aversion to coo...

I never noticed it before, how often women apologise, but I suspect it’s always been like that.  Look at me, for example.  Here I am wi...

Today I’m writing about lentils & disappointment. Both get stronger if you let them sit a while, but maybe not in the way you expect.  ...

Warming the bowls. I’m cooking chicken noodle laksa this week, & thinking about people who tell other people to shut up. In ...

Plenty of garlic! This week I learned how to make garlic & cheese scones, then wrote to the Electoral College.  Both were a little ...