Having a father away at work and a sick mother led to Simon Dixon of Bolton Point witnessing quite the kitchen disaster (C8) in their luxury caravan in southern England, courtesy of his well-meaning Uncle Jack, who volunteered to make a curry: “For unexplained reasons he elected to cook the rice in a pressure cooker. Suddenly, there was a pop, followed by a loud hissing sound. The aluminium walls were evenly covered with the contents of the cooker, the rice having emerged through the safety valve, presumably at great speed, one grain at a time. All of Jack’s considerable charm was required to placate my mother, who seemed to have suddenly recovered from her illness.”

While Catherine Rogers of Canada Bay reckons that Camp Pie (C8) is at least “a great vehicle for large amounts of tomato sa

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