Month: May 2013

We love a cheese plate in our household – different kinds, from different places, served with fruit, chutneys, and the obligatory glass of wine or port. The cheese plate pretty much can’t be beaten. That’s what we thought. But imagine...

Mrs Manning senior (ie Mr Manning’s mother) is a domestic goddess. There’s nothing that comes out of her kitchen that isn’t splendid (except once when she forgot to put the water in the saucepan she was cooking cauliflower for cauliflower...

Mr Manning and I love meat, like really, really love it. We sometimes joke that the first time we realised we were meant to be was during a conversation about lamb chops when we realised we both secretly like the fat...(only when it's really crispy...