As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

I know this means I may never be allowed back into the UK, but Quality Street lost its appeal when they replaced their pretty, spangly wrappers with the dull, slightly Soviet ones (I know,I know, for entirely reasonable planet-saving reasons). So it has to be Marrons glacés.

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Got some help with the gardening.

Coming up this Friday.... me deciding on this year's xmas dinner in real time, with help from a wide range of people, exploring Christmases past, present and future....

I love it when people throw themselves head first into my recipes! And make them their own. Highest compliment.

At the Grand Prix in Qatar.

A little obsessed with this new Channel 4 prog, B+B Challenge, where couples who've never worked in hospitality before compete to win a B+B in France by running B+Bs in the Dordogne for a week. Few of them speak any French (how will you run a business?), more than one lot serve frozen croissants.

How to fit 5 litres of chicken stock into a tiny freezer? Reduce it, reduce it, reduce it.

I can't help reposting all the potato recipes. It is in my very blood. I am from potato people.

I made a cappuccino and sloshes a little of my homemade vanilla extract into the milk so I'm basically Starbucks now. Morning.

Some of you were asking me for the recipe for these winegrowers' potatoes last night. It's on my Substack now. The recipe part of the post is for paid subscribers, but you can sign up for a free trial to read it if you would like to. Hope you make it! deborarobertson.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

Some of you were asking me for the recipe for these winegrowers' potatoes last night. It's on my Substack now. The recipe part of the post is for paid subscribers, but you can sign up for a free trial to read it if you would like to. Hope you make it! deborarobertson.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

Made winegrowers' potatoes. Bacon, potatoes, cheese.

Anyway, up the Arsenal.

Lunch. Not terrible.

Good morning from the port.

This 🧵

Bayern obviously Tottenham in disguise.

Absolutely raging at the men working outside in the garden. The impertimence.

It's been a tough day for a puppy, essentially doing nothing.

Goodnight from the South of France. Sleep crazy.

Yes, Arsenal, yes.

I am, to be sure, reasonably easily irritated, but people who hurl down hamfisted and usually unsupported statements followed by "You're welcome" should be chased by pitchfork-and torch-wielding mobs.

Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs

Wish me luck. I am going to go and plant about a million bulbs and it is cold with a bitter wind. I am so brave.

Don't take my ball.

Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social & @sheridanflynn.com for @thenerve.news

Very good to see Nathan Gill of Reform has been given a 10 1/2 years custodial sentence for taking Russian bribes. Take our country back from these crooks. In mitigation, his statement claimed he was a man of "deep faith". Deep faith in his own greed and mendaciousness. Absolute trash.

Puppy's first groom. #Furious #SideEye

Tan suit.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

No dogs on the bed, ever.

Anecdolts

Mediterranean lifestyle still holding up

Just to reiterate my view, having studied the history of the BBC for over a quarter of a century - as well as having worked there for several years as a journalist: Robbie Gibb should have absolutely no role whatsoever in the governance of the Corporation.

After all the rain and thunder yesterday, she is just so happy to be outside.

Hanging out with my girl.

It's been thunder and lightning and rain here all day today and this puppy has zero interest in going outside. Excellent lap warmer though.

Discussion of lots of people being on long term sick leave since 2019 without mentioning covid is like talking about wwii without mentioning bombs or guns. And yet....

These LNER staff were incredibly brave.

5.30 and it's already getting dark. Furious.

I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Made braised pigs' cheeks with toasted hazelnuts and roast figs and I'm not sad about it.

Came home and I wasn't the only one keen to get in the house..

Chrissake. Impossible to underestimate a certain type, isn't it?

Made coq au vin en croûte. The criminality. Sunday lunch of love.

God the men creeping into chat requests on this app.

I love this book by @lickedspoon.bsky.social! Wonderful recipes and so brilliantly written.👇