Yeah, my day job is in the legal system and I get daily proof that there’s nothing a lot of powerful old men like more than having a horde of beautiful young eager to please women bustling about them at their beck and call. 

THE QUEEN OF THE FUCKING NORTH. Have not felt this validated about the conclusion for a character I love but is more popular to not love, since Downton Abbey ended with Edith becoming a marchioness and outranking everyone.

If you’re diabetic and carbs=death (or if you’re just, I dunno, keto or something) you can substitute cauliflower for the potato and it still tastes okay. 

Might some late night eaters be shift workers or people who work two jobs back to back, so come dinner time don’t always have the time or energy to cook something healthy and nutritious from scratch?

I fucking love organ meats. My only inhibition against making pate is I don’t have a dishwasher so I avoid doing anything that would involve hand-washing the food processor bowl and blades as much as humanly possible. So when I get a craving, or am making an appetiser for people I know won’t be freaked out by offal, I…

I keep thinking I think she’s a bit pretentious and twee but then I remember I have both her other memoirs plus the recipe book-with-little-memoir-bits she did about the year Gourmet closed.

This is interesting! My take on that scene with Kat talking to Bianca about Joey was that the sex with Joey wasn’t non-consensual, but Kat went along very much against her better judgment and basically because sex was what all the cool kids were doing and she wanted to fit in. And afterwards when Joey dumped her and…

“and staring down a car full of pretty girls”.

I think sometimes it’s a “look how petite and dainty I am, even my glasses are SO HUGE on me lol” thing.

I am a sex worker and I am in total fucking awe of how many muggles seem to be out there not using condoms for penetration and oral in their casual hook ups, AND not getting tested regularly, and yet we are still perceived as “dirty” and “dangerous”. 

I’m not a massive Withnail & I fan either. My perspective on that film is tarnished by too many douchey guys who were very into it.

Which of the desserts will you be making, Kevin? I know the creme brulee is the obvious choice, but I vote for the iles flotantes! 

Posh Nosh ties with the lulzy Scarlet Pimpernel series that the BBC did back in the late 90s/early 2000s as my favourite Richard E Grant thing.

This. Nobody’s saying Moore isn’t a great actress (except a few contrarian trolls). The point is god knows how many equally talented actresses there are out there who’ll never get a big break because they’re not thin and conventionally attractive. 

Pork rillettes and potted prawns are my two go-to “so easy it’s exciting to tell people about it if they ask” appetisers. The hardest thing about doing potted prawns is finding prawns that aren’t the size of bloody bananas as we seem to love big prawns so much. (If you can’t find anything but annoyingly big prawns you…

Minus the literal incest (we hope) its like if VC Andrews had written a book about a political family in there.

Sim Ant!!!

I’m in my 30s and single and childless, and a lot of my peers are in committed monogamous relationships, many with young children or pregnant. That is a HARD network to break into and form deep bonds with, they’re all friends with each other, and it sometimes does feel like if you aren’t partnered up and/or family…

The thing is - and I’m going to assume you are someone who legit just doesn’t know this, as opposed to Healing Crystals who is an out and proud SWERF and TERF - decriminalisation protects both sex workers AND trafficking victims. Peer support sex worker organisations clearly distinguish between sex workers and…

Never forget she was also the chef who cooked for Giles and Sue (pre GBBO) during the week where they ate the 1950s. Highlights include the horsemeat steaks and the bake-off in honour of the coronation. Play list starts here.