Simplicity

A resolution  to eat more healthily means the sideboard is laden with fruit: pears, apples, bananas, clementines. I decided to try David Lebowitz's baked pears recipe, using Madeira instead of Marsala.  Simple and beautiful.

In other news, I was reduced to incoherent rage by Nigel Farage claiming (to Fox News, whose "anti-terrorism expert" believes non-Muslims are barred from Birmingham) that there are "no-go zones in most French cities". Irresponsible, bigoted ... don't watch if you are easily annoyed. It's scary to think this is some people's main source of information. Meanwhile funerals of some of the victims of last week's attacks were held with quiet dignity.