Send me your maps – (sounds like Caesar saying lend me your ears) but I would love to see them and share them here – you can email them to zebbakes a-t gmail dot com

Minadott's map of Europe shown by permission
A map to make you hungry!
Send me your maps – (sounds like Caesar saying lend me your ears) but I would love to see them and share them here – you can email them to zebbakes a-t gmail dot com

Minadott's map of Europe shown by permission
A map to make you hungry!
London, sprawling and huge, confounded my mother in its enormity when she first came here as a new immigrant. Here is my father’s map; we all need maps.
How do you manage when you arrive somewhere new?


Spice Girl asked me in a comment here what happened to the cake I was making….
Full of sticky French Agen prunes, the best prunes in the world, and even stickier cherries, whole walnuts and more fruit again, embedded in a caramel sauce, I topped off Dan Lepard’s Caramel Cake with some Dutch marzipan. The cake is sweet and moist and could do with some more brandy in it to give it a more Christmassy feel, but it’s a delicious cake nonetheless. We only cut it yesterday so this is the first slice!
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