Classic Fish and Chips are comfort food at it's very best. Serve with Homemade Tartar Sauce and Southern Hush Puppies and you'll be eating like a king (or a queen).
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Diagramming sentences helps kids see English grammar at-a-glance. It's easier to practice analyzing English parts of speech on the diagram charts and worksheets.
Can you tell we are tackling Beowulf next week? I am amazed at the number of quality resources available for free! This list includes research pages, writing assignments, history lessons, and literature guides. Updated 08/12/22 Beowulf Resources Beowulf: Still a Hero An Introduction to Beowulf The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf [...]
A traditional English parsley sauce recipe is a classic of the British kitchen and unbelievably easy to make. Perfect with fish, ham, or vegetables.
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. ~ Neil Gaiman March is National Reading month, one of my favorites! Not only is the dreary winter weather...
Zabaione, spelled Zabaglione by some Italians and all English speakers, is a classic sweet that you don't encounter much any more on restaurant menus,
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England. Larger is lovelier.
After years as a teacher and a journalist, Georgia Beaufort has assumed a commanding new role: proprietress of Badminton House in Gloucestershire, an estate with deep roots in an Arcadian past.
The nation of comfort foods. Whoever said Britain doesn't have good cuisine has obviously never read this list.
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This post explores the connections between Classic texts and modern texts. They explore the following connections: Lord of the Flies & Hunger Games, “The Necklace” & Nonfiction Pairings, Macbeth & Long Way Down, Night & Between Shades of Gray + Salt to the Sea, The Scarlet Letter &
Faggots and peas was the meatball dinner that I grew up with in the British Midlands, this recipe is a dear old favourite that I love!
“The Wedding Dress” Fred Elwell
Hungry? You will be after reading this
Dash my wig, the Victorians had a lovely way with words.
Continuing our epic journey towards Shakespeare's 400th death anniversary on Saturday, here is a handy-dandy board game that allows you to relive all the exciting ups and downs of this master playwright's eventful life!
Serve this classic dish the right way: on a piece of newspaper. Make sure you have malt vinegar, tartar sauce, and a whole lot of napkins on hand. Recipe here.
@MattAndersonBBC over on Twitter has shared an amazing bit of language trivia: We looked this up and it’s from a book called The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth. The next paragraph on the vowel sounds and how words are ordered is equally good: We’ve literally spent the […]
Vasili Vladimirovich Pukirev (Russian (1832, Luzhniki, Tula Governorate 1 June 1890, Moscow) was a Russian genre painter in the Realistic style. He was born to a peasant family and was originally apprenticed to an icon painter in Mogilev. By sheer luck, he was able t
A buttery Danish filled with sweet vanilla pudding, the puddingbrezel is one of a kind. Learn how to make this pretzel-shaped pastry.
"'The floor is lava!' — Everyone, Pompeii, 79 A.D."
For a very long time I've wondered why women decorate the way they do. Oh, I've never gotten the answer as there are many and varied answer...
Richborough is perhaps the most symbolically important of all Roman sites in Britain, witnessing both the beginning and almost the end of Roman rule here.
Local's guide to the best British food. Traditional English, Scottish, Welsh & Northern Irish dishes and desserts you have to try in the UK.
Recipe video above. The great British classic! Sausages nestled in a giant Yorkshire pudding, in all its puffed up glory, with delightfully crispy edges. The trick for stability is a dab of mayonnaise! Taught to me by an English chef, learned from his days working in pubs and restaurants in the UK. (See note 4)Some recipes will have you just bake the sausages from raw, but your gravy will be much tastier if you start with sausage drippings. So sear your sausages first!
