Ruthie and Connie

Doing the Kitchen

One of the things that is brilliant about being a food writer is that your friends come to you to solve their most hideous problems. My sister in Woking just had a massive leak in her house and the ceiling above her kitchen began to crumble. Its a terrible time of year to start doing internet searches for plasterer surrey but she had no choice and turned to me to give her some advice on how to keep the holidays festive while her kitchen ceiling was being plastered and she got new dry wall put in. All I could think of was putting up some kind of field kitchen in her garden and trying her best to do a combination of autumn barbecues and camp fire baking.

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