Sophie Dahl

Sep 30, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Sophie Dahl

My great-grandmother Marion was born in one of the poorest wards in Glasgow in 1872. She was a milliner who was left widowed at a young age with two small children, after her first husband died in the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum at Gartnavel. Five years later she quietly married a retired engineer, 20 years her senior, and together they moved from Scotland to Leeds. It was there my grandmother Violet was born.

Jul 21, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Silvana Franco |Nargisse Benkabbou |Sophie Dahl |Eid sweets recipes

Microwave bourbon biscuit fudge This microwave fudge makes the perfect last minute gift. Let the kids help breaking the chocolate and biscuits and stirring them in. MethodLine a 20cm/8in square cake tin with a sheet of baking paper. Tip the condensed milk into a large microwavable bowl. Add the chocolate and microwave on high for 4 minutes, stirring every minute until smooth. Stir in most of the broken biscuits then tip into the tin, levelling off with the back of a spoon.

Jun 16, 2023 | houseandgarden.co.uk | Sophie Dahl

When we turned out of the driveway of the house we had just sold, the house, spilling with wisteria, in which my husband had proposed and to which we’d brought two babies home, I didn’t look back. The children cried, the cat hissed mutinously from her basket and I looked straight at the road ahead. Perhaps because I had to do so much moving when I was a kid – schools and houses – I greet goodbyes with a smile and a sort of pragmatic resignation. I don’t look back.