I haven’t left the house since mid March, and I’ve just had a card put through my letter box saying “We tried to deliver your parcel but you were out.” 🤷🏻♀️
Well, yes, Bitter Orange Tart just happens to be
#RecipeOfTheDay
. Apart from anything else, there are more things to make with Seville oranges than marmalade! This is not complicated: the base is bashed ginger nuts
In the words of Kelly Marie, My head is in a spin/ my feet don’t touch the ground....
I have just had a beautiful text saying the words I really wanted to hear this Valentine’s: it’s from the NHS and they’re calling me in for my first jab!
I want to offer solidarity to all those grieving and fighting for a better world. I feel anything I say is puny, but it’s important that white people acknowledge systematic racism exists and are, however unintentionally, complicit in it
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatterUK
As the mother of children who have had to grow up without a father, I’m aware that
#fathersday
is not always a happy day. If today is a cause for celebration, I wish you much joy. If, for whatever reason, it’s a cause of heartache, I send much love.
This time 20 years ago, I was at the launch party for my first book, How To Eat. Looking at this photo makes me happy, but also very sad. I wish I could be in John’s arms now
Sending so much to those who have been bereaved this year. One of the most infuriating things is when people wish you “a better year next year” as if the person you loved and who died would somehow no longer be dead. And it’s hard anyway to see the calendar turn without them, too
Govt have now defined “family”to exclude an adult’s parents, their brothers & sisters and pretty much everybody else that Boris Johnson, Patel, Sunak & Truss would call “family” if it was their own
Even with a nation’s goodwill they can’t even get this right
I despair
All hail
@BootstrapCook
who is doing such a great job answering questions (tagged
#JackMonroesLockdownLarder
) about what to cook with the random ingredients in your kitchen.
I mean, I’m always happy to respond and help - we all are - but the author of
#TinCanCook
is the One!
As the mother of fatherless children, I’ve never been great at Father’s Day. So let me commiserate with those for whom this day signifies loss (which is not just those without living fathers) but congratulate those who happily have reason to celebrate today
Jack
@BootstrapCook
does so much for others. It would be great if those of you who can would support her and her work. It doesn’t take much, and it would mean so much
Seamless trade is vital for our economy, boosting business, supporting jobs, and ensuring consumers get the best deal.
Our Internal Market plans will make sure it’s business as usual, with trade continuing to flow between all four nations of the UK.
👇
Clean sheet night! And yes, I know it’s ridiculously early to be in bed, but going to bed ridiculously early on clean sheet night is one of life’s greatest luxuries
Thank you to all of you for your loveliness throughout the year. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your company, and the community you offer and that we all share in. May 2021 be kinder to us than 2020 has been. Happy New Year xx
I’ve been terribly absent on here, apart from posting RecipeOfTheDay, for many weeks. Had a lot going on, and then felt overwhelmed by tackling the backlog, which made it worse! So what I say is please forgive me, but best I do not go back but start afresh and reply from now! OK?
It’s impossible to read this piece without feeling it. Such raw pain and anger, rendered with majestic eloquence. I don’t mean to take away from its sad, savage realness, when I say it is a work of art, too.
Woke up this morning to the radio talking about the cost of living rising a further 5%. It infuriates me the index that they use for this calculation, which grossly underestimates the real cost of inflation as it happens to people with the least. Allow me to briefly explain.
Thank you everyone for your lovely comments. I will reply to as many as possible tomorrow. For now, , let me just say 1) I hope I didn’t traumatise you too much with the banana skins (I promise you the curry is divine) and 2) I’m very grateful for your all-round gorgeousness xx
I wish a very happy Mother’s Day to those for whom today is a celebration, and send love from the bottom of my heart to those for whom, for various reasons, it’s a deeply painful day.
Right then! I’m feeling a little nervous, but also very excited. For tonight’s the night for the first episode of my new series.
#CookEatRepeat
! It goes out at 8pm on
@bbctwo
for the next six weeks, followed by a one-hour Christmas Special. Do join me on your sofas if you will!
Poleaxed by
#ItsASin
. It’s a masterpiece. I’m lost for words. So many friends remembered. Thank you
@russelldavies63
. I need to watch it again straightaway. So beautiful and true. (I’ll stop now. When I said I was lost for words, I wasn’t kidding!)
Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes for yesterday. I’ve tried to thank all of you, but if I haven’t thanked you, I do so now. Your loveliness warms my heart, and I’m deeply grateful. You made a lockdown birthday full of cheer 💗
💗 I just wanted to thank you all on here for the warmth and loveliness of your company over the past 12 months. Happy New Year - and wishing you good health and much deliciousness in 2022! 💗
And talking of thank yous to be said, a huge, heartfelt thank you to all of you here on this patch of Twitter. I’m not going anywhere, and hope Twitter isn’t either, but just wanted to say it anyway. And, all things being well, will be catching up with your tweets here shortly
It shouldn’t have to be this way, but it is more important to feed a hungry child than argue about how it’s done. Or rather, donate if you can and then do what’s necessary to stop those who make children going hungry policy
Right, my lovelies! I’m wishing you a delicious and happy Christmas for tomorrow, and signing off for a day or two. I’ll be posting RecipeOfTheDay, but I won’t be on here to respond or comment. Just wanted to let you know now, so you’re not disappointed later!
#campaschristmas
I’m logging off till the 28th. Please don’t ask me anything as I won’t be here to answer! My And while I won’t be here to post Recipe of the Day, you can still get it - and hundreds of other recipes - on . Have as Merry a Christmas as possible in the circs
Lisa Wilkinson leaves the Federal Court in Sydney, arm in arm with her barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC. “I feel glad for the women of Australia today,” Wilkinson says.
It’s official! Am very exited to say that I’m shortly back in Australia to be on
@mykitchenrules
. And, if I may borrow an Australian term, I’m stoked!
🚨BREAKING: The House of Lords has voted to remove clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill, which seeks to create new powers to strip British nationals of their citizenship without even telling them.
This is a huge win. 1/3
Missed
#Eurovision2023
because was on the road/ in the air, and only just catching up now. Just need to say I love Hannah Waddingham with every cell in my being. But then, who doesn’t?