~ 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 ~
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe) Regular Lavender and Lovage readers may remember that I entered a baking contest recently here: La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year, sadly I didn’t win, you can’t win them all, but I did come in as [...]
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, [...]
- Floral Gift in a Jar – Home-made Sweet Violet Sugar for Cakes and Bakes British Mothering Sunday is on the 18th March this year, and over the next week I shall be posting come ideas for this special day; today, I am sharing another violet recipe, Sweet Violet Sugar – a delightful old-fashioned floral sugar [...]
Tea Time Treats – January Round-Up with Sweet Pastries & Breads What a fabulous turnout we had again for our third Tea Time Treats Challenge – we had TWENTY NINE entries and all of them tea time beauties to rival any commercial or artisan bakery. The theme was Sweet Pastries and Breads and there were some really original recipes and [...]
The New Tea Time Treats January Challenge! Sweet Pastries and Breads 2012 Happy New Year to all of our Tea Time Treats members! Image: Woman’s Day, Australia Kate and I have foxed you for January I think…..I bet you thought we would go all frugal on you and post a weight loss challenge, NOT so! [...]
Karen S Booth
