Book Pairing: While making these, I was listening to Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. He writes well (while being no Tolstoy!)

Ingredients: 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, chopped 1 white onion, chopped 2 carrots, chopped 1 celery

are beginning to settle down again though, I have some exciting recipes to share from the last little while If the top of the jelly wrinkles, it is ready to put into jars. 4) While the jelly is cooking, boil 4 Once sealed the jars of jelly should keep well in a cool dry place for a good while.

3 cooking apples, cored and chopped 3 onions, chopped 1 1/2 c raisins 1 c red wine vinegar 1 1/2 c white

The idea has been bouncing around for a little while and I finally decided to try it. I initially started with 1 c pectin, but while the cream did thicken, it didn't gel.

adzuki and pinto beans) 3 onions, chopped 2 heads of garlic, chopped 2 red peppers, chpped 2 spicy(ish) white

grated 200g Appenzeller, grated 200g Vacherin Fribourgeois, grated 1 -1 1/2 tbsp corn starch 1 1/2 -2 c white

For a while, that is all it was, as we ate through leftovers. This one has been a while in the making, given that I started it way back at Thanksgiving, but it was I didn't really think about it while cooking yesterday (there was rather a lot else going on), but reflecting

On a different note, I noticed recently that all of my cooking happens either while wrangling Little Bit, or while listening to and Audiobook. While making this soup, I was listening to an early part of The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer. While playing around with my nettles and aubergines, our young beleaguered inspector is following clues It's been a while since my last crime book and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

So I'm a little late in posting this, but we get spectacular apricots here in the summer, so while they