A right little cooker

You may by now have realised that Jan loves to cook and she is always on the lookout for new ideas and recipes. She recently found this site and, as we are afficionados of fresh ricotta, she tried to make her own from one of their recipes. The ricotta we get in Italy is to die for, quite unlike anything you would normally taste and we have both become addicted to the real thing. It was a very good first effort, but she admitted that a little more attention to the temperature would probably have helped. Additionally, because we have a surfeit of both cherry tomatoes and melons, she made a Cherry Tomato and Cinnamon Jam and a Lime and Ginger Melon Jam. They were both delicious. See what I've got to put up with?

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Out with Max for a walk this afternoon, we noticed that some trees were already starting to change colour. As it is only mid August, we put it down to the general lack of rain combined with intense heat.

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Kevin, who is a very senior figure in the public relations industry, knows how to put a positive spin on most things. We are all sitting on the terrace taking in the cool evening air when he reminded me of the ancient saying, that you should never criticise a man until you have walked a thousand miles in his shoes. "Isn't that a great saying", he said, "walk in the right direction, and you are a thousand miles away from the idiot that is irritating you AND you've got his shoes".