Recipes

Recipes for food that can be served at book club meetings for Talk of the Town

Plummet himself who was a well-known squealer at school, found him surrounded by broken glass and home-made gooseberry jam.

A couple of weeks ago, I was coming out of a chip shop with a bag of chips and this fella comes along and karate kicks the chips out of my hand for absolutely no reason, and then he says to me 'Are you startin'?' and I says to him, 'No, I'm not startin'!' and off he went.   

She knew I could never resist a beetroot sandwich.

You order a burger, a battered sausage, chips in curry sauce and a portion of onion rings.

Once again Patrick walked me home despite my protestations, 

stopping only for a bag of chips and a spice burger.

I could have been the cake, a freshly-baked sponge gateau divided into two hemispheres, 

one on top of the other, separated by lashings of creme and jam bursting out the sides, 

my mother made for the jumble sale above in the Parish Hall 

to raise money to repair the roof of the church. 

On the dole, he finally confessed, spending his pittance on hazlitt and frozen peas, his spare time on fibs, not even claiming rent allowance because of his stupid pride.