#20 Never freeze a lettuce
Freezers are great, especially if you were brought up to waste not, want not (we’ll get to that one later). Everything from chicken to herbs makes...
12 Jun 2013
9 Sept 2011
#19 How to tell when your clothes are dry
It's a fairly common problem (although not a complete crisis I'll admit) if you live in the UK and don't have a tumble dryer. Whether your freshly...
21 Apr 2011
#18 When to pack spare pants
I once had a conversation with a friend of which the topic, randomly enough, was the comparison of spare-knicker related advice we have received...
10 Jan 2011
#17 How to make white sauce
A good white sauce is the basic of several of my favourite meals - gammon and parsley sauce, lasagne, or a simple cheese sauce on pasta. Yum. The...
17 Dec 2010
#16 How to find things that you have lost
Whether your house looks like this or is as tidy as a show home, we all lose things. I'm often guilty of having something in my hand one second and...
10 Dec 2010
Wonderful cake decorations
I've not had a chance to get any more drawings online, so the Things My Mother Taught Me is on a slight pause. I promised in #12 The recipe for the best chocolate birthday cake to add some photos of the cakes decorated by my mother. So, here are a few I had to hand. The jungle cake was for my sister's 18th just this year, and the Klimt (you...
5 Dec 2010
#15 Sewing Machines Are Like Computers
Unfortunately, this is less of a tip and more of an unavoidable truth. Sewing machines freeze, they crash, they seize up and do things that you have...
