~ Seasonal fragrance and flavour from my country kitchens in England and France....celebrating local seasonal produce with traditional feasts and festivals, culinary notes, reviews, recipes and musings from home and abroad....whilst preparing family food with flair ~
The Coffee Challenge with De’Longhi: Italian Coffee Mocha Kisses and Brandy Snaps There is nothing as nice as afternoon tea, unless it happens to be afternoon coffee. I am a bit of a tea and coffee snob, and only drink the best stuff, made in a tea-pot for tea and in a cafetière for coffee. So, when [...]
May Tea Time Treats: The Biscuit Tin and Cookie Jar! Biscuits and Cookies Welcome to May’s Challenge for Tea Time Treats! After a HUGE and very successful April with Kate, who was the Fairy Cake and Cup Cake queen, we decided to go crisp and buttery for May, and so the theme this month is: [...]
Posh Jam Biscuits! Jammie Daisy Dodgers (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Jammie Dodgers: Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortbread with a raspberry flavoured jam filling. They are currently produced by Burton’s Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam. In 2009 Jammie Dodgers were the most popular children’s sweet biscuit brand in the United Kingdom, with 40% of the years’ sales consumed by adults. A buttery [...]
Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Red Nose Day is nearly upon us – in about two weeks time, we will all be able to wear red noses to work, meet friends for lunch wearing them, as well as sleep in them if that’s what floats your boat! Red [...]
Ma Broon’s Burns Night Tribute Supper! Burns Night ~ 25th January A Guide to the Great Scottish Feast! Address To A Haggis “Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace As lang’s my arm.” [...]
A Cup of Tea and a Biscuit: Jumbles (Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe I love these biscuits (cookies), they are a real blast from the past and I have fond memories of them from my childhood – making these oaty morsels with my grandmother and my mum. These are not to be confused with Leicestershire Bosworth [...]
The Big Tea Time Random Recipes Round-Up! Cakes, Pies and Biscuits……. Thirty days ago, I announced that the September Tea Time Treats challenge was joining forces with Dom from Random Recipes for one fun filled month, and here we are a month later, with a plethora of pies, cakes, biscuits, cookies, bakes and even chutney! So, [...]
The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat! It’s been a busy month for me and I am way behind with my Sepia Saturday posts; for those of you who don’t know what they are, it’s my weekly attempt to bake my way through seventy to eighty [...]
Bake a Cake for Grandparents’ Day and Win a Luxury Flower Arrangement and a Grandparents’ Day Gift Basket It gives me GREAT pleasure to announce that Lavender and Lovage will be hosting a WONDERFUL baking contest on behalf of Interflora UK, Bake a Cake for Grandparents’ Day. The contest is NOT just about cakes though, you can [...]
Win an Eric Lanlard Hamper with Silver Spoon & Macmillan Cancer Support AND My Recipe in The Little Book of Treats I am proud to be able to tell you all that I will be supporting Macmillan Cancer Support in THREE ways this year – firstly, and most excitingly, one of my recipes is being published [...]
Karen S Booth
