~ 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 ~
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Asparagus, Spring Vegetables, Gooseberries & Cape Malay Beef Curry Recipes Core May Ingredients: Beef, Asparagus, Broad Beans, Peas, Gooseberries and Jersey Royal Potatoes May Menu: Two Cheese Asparagus Tart Broad Bean and Pea Medley with Feta Cheese Jersey Royal Potato Salad with Three Herb Mayonnaise Cape Malay Beef & Fruit [...]
Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe British Pie Week Everyone knows the old English rhyme “Simple Simon” and his pies, and I have to confess to being a bit of an extreme pie addict! There are extreme sportsmen (and women) as well as other professions where extreme comes into play, but an extreme [...]
Old Fashioned Sweet Delights: Spiced Mincemeat Meringue Pies (Recipe) The humble mince pie needs little embellishments in my humble opinion - a crisp, crumbly and buttery shortcrust pastry base filled with fruity home-made mincemeat, with a dash of brandy, and a simple lid of more buttery pastry – a sprinkling of caster sugar maybe, or even a little [...]
Kenwood Christmas Menu: ~ The Main Event ~ Beef Wellington (Boeuf en Croute) Recipe Over the last three weeks, myself and four other lucky food bloggers (Beth, Sian, Becs and Eliza) have been part of the Kenwood Christmas Menu challenge; we all received a Kenwood Titanium Chef in order to create a special Christmas menu. I [...]
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe It was my intention to cook a meal in a Hay Box at sometime in my wartime kitchen week; a hay box was a simple way to continue cooking a meal whilst you were out, or in order to save energy. The casserole, soup [...]
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, [...]
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties – When I was approached by Sainsbury’s recently and asked if I would like to participate in the Organic September event, which is being run by the Soil Association, I was delighted to accept the challenge. Organic is always the way to [...]
A Nocturnal Beach Picnic, Wine and a Family Recipe ~ Sausage Plait with Sage and Onion ~ (Picnic Pie) A Picnic! One of my favourite words in the English language…..nothing can deter me from having a good time, whether it is sunny or raining, it’s all of the fun of baking and making mountains of sandwiches [...]
Holidays, Sunny Days, Wine and Baklava with the Sunvil Supper Club I lived in Cyprus for six years, and although I don’t miss living there, as such, I do miss the “holiday” atmosphere that prevails throughout the island during the summer; and the grilled fish eaten under starry skies in a beach side taverna……as well as tall, cool Brandy Sour [...]
~Tea Time Treats for January~ Little Custard Pies with Mincemeat and Almonds Tea Time Treats January Sweet Pastries and Breads I promised you some sweet treats for days and did not deliver, and then just like a number 19 bus, they all arrive at once as here is my second sweet treat in the [...]
Karen S Booth
