The Sunday Slice #2 - Ask Me Anything!
Come and say hello, tell me about you and ask whatever you like
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Hello lovely Sunday people. I hope you’re having a chilled weekend full of fun/friends/family and good food, and I hope that you’re taking care. We are still just finding our feet after the onslaught of covid, so are taking it really easy, I’ve been flicking through some of my favourite cookbooks, which I always find a bit like snuggling up in a comfort blanket, and thinking about some of the things I want to cook over the coming weeks, as well as swotting up on toddler discipline books because we are at *that* stage.
I can hardly believe this as I type it, but this newsletter is coming up for eight months old. EIGHT MONTHS. Well, that has just flown. Thank you so much for reading, subscribing, supporting and helping to make A Lot On Her Plate what it is, which is something very special indeed. I really hope you know that I don’t say that lightly: when I first finished my recipe column at the Sunday Times - my main paid gig - and, slightly terrified, branched out on my own with this space, I just had no idea whether readers would follow, or even if I’d be able to keep up the writing and recipe development on a weekly/monthly basis, but as it’s evolved you’ve come along in your thousands, and given me the motivation, community and readership that I so craved.
Crucially, the paid subscribers who support me on a yearly and monthly basis have given me the financial incentive to keep going with this, and to allocate increasing amounts of time and energy to making it the best it can be. And I have so much more in store for you: including Christmas recipes, reader recipe competitions, hamper giveaways and more just around the corner, but for now I thought it would just be really lovely to check in and open up an AMA, as they call it on the ‘Stack.
The past few weeks have been rather challenging for me on a personal level, what with us both being really knocked out by Covid, and I’ve found myself really seeking connection and community (two things that Substack does so well) more than ever, so I thought I’d open the floor for a Q&A. Some of you have done this before, and if so, don’t feel the need to reintroduce, but if you’re new here, please tell me a little bit about you (if you like, if not, just go in for a question), and then ask me whatever you like - career, food, leaving London, coastal living, motherhood, weaning, Substack stuff, Christmas food - whatever - you ask and I’ll do my best to answer. I’d also love to hear what you’re hoping to get out of being here, and what you’d love to see/read/cook moving forward, so that I can keep tailoring this newsletter to better deliver this for you. This ‘AMA’, as they say ‘on the ‘Stack, is one of the special things that’s only open to my paid subscribers, so if you’re a free subscriber - who I should say, I I value very much - and IF you want to get more involved, you’ll need to upgrade below.
To ask me anything, simply drop your question (and a bit about you, if poss) in the comments below and I’ll reply to as many as I can at some point before Wednesday next week.