Andrea Boccelli sang us past the breakwater and into the Indian Ocean on Sunday evening as we intruded briefly in other people’s lives, and Dean Martin sang me home again on Wednesday afternoon. In between, a modest but generous helping of Italian la dolce vita on the ocean waves.
An invitation to tour Queen Mary 2 in Cape Town harbour, followed by dinner on board, recalls a lost age when mailships berthed in Duncan Dock and a troubled boy prowled the docks when he should have been at school.
It’s starting to look as though anything we can cook in the oven or on the old stove can be cooked in an air fryer. And quicker. The latest to get the air fryer treatment is my recipe for peri-peri chicken wings.
Stewed fruit such as apple or rhubarb are ubiquitous in crumble recipes around the world. But you can ring the changes in a thousand other ways. The other day, I used a filling of the red prickly pear jam I had made the week before.