Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.
Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.
Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.
Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
A goddess of dawn scooted under a zing of barbed wire to witness your birth.
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible. Now, he is free.
I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.
I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me
We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.
