Lazy Old Blogger

Literally months have passed since I bothered to do a blog.  Finally, the day comes and instead of providing something for them to read, I have put on my special beseeching hat at a particularly jaunty angle and am going to request some assistance…

My putative Edinburgh show for 2008 is currently (and extremely long-windedly) entitled:

Chris Neill’s Got A Bun In The Oven – Confessions Of A Fork Bender`

Everyday of the festival I shall be cooking a meal for my audience: it may be a cake, there might be something awfully offal-based, or I might merely ask them to have a nibble on what’s left of my fingernails. 

However, I need help… 

Cooking is all about the quality of raw ingredients (and so – many critics have kindly have told me over the last few years – is comedy.)  I have plenty of cooking-related yarns, anecdotes, and the rest of it but they’re beginning to bore me already and so if you wanted to share some of yours then that would be great.  Everything, all and sundry food-related really. It could anything from the frankly dull details of your favourite meal to a link to your most adored clip of Nigella Lawson noshing off some kitchen hardware.  Atwixt you might want to let me know your perfect recipe for Yorkshire puddings or you may wish to spill details of terrible meals cooked for potential lovers.  If you have visual evidence all the better.  Listeners on BBC Radio Scotland have been tremendously forthcoming already – there was a brilliant story about Spaghetti Bolognaise-protocol used as the vetting procedure for membership of an ex-pats club in the Middle East, and a splendid contribution from Brian Murray who sent me this piccie of a charming birthday cake created by him and his son for his wife’s birthday.  Brian told me it tasted as good as it looks.  I’ll leave you to decide how to take that.

Don’t feel you can’t chip in with your contributions.  Do you see?  I’m not fussy.  All missives are gratefully received and you can contact me either through this site or at bunintheoven@live.co.uk

Yours, with his pinny on and with his fingers crossed. XXX