~ 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 ~
A Quick and Easy Random Recipe: Cheese and Onion Scone Bread (Loaf) I have been a little lazy on the baking front lately, I have just been so busy and also the diet has been high on the list this week, after an orgy of excessive boozing and scoffing last week! So, when my random generator [...]
The Secret Recipe Club: Banana Bread Scones with Brown Sugar Glaze I know I say this will alarming predictability, but where has the month flown too? It really does seem like only yesterday that I was sharing my last Secret Recipe post, which was for some amazing Brown Butter Carrot and Orange Muffins; and here I am one [...]
Day Five on the Advent Calendar: Mini Cheese, Cranberry and Walnut Scones Recipe Day Five on the Advent Calendar: 5th December: Today is day five on the Lavender and Lovage Advent Calendar and what an appropriate window to open, and find a nutcracker, as my recipe today is Mini Cheese, Cranberry and Walnut Scones. I have to admit [...]
Rural Store Cupboard Supplies, Sepia Saturday and Milk Fadge: Emergency Bread (No Yeast) Recipe I am known for my large store cupboard, larder, pantry and multiple freezers; whilst many people are embracing a minimalist lifestyle, and are madly de-cluttering their homes, as is the new trend, I am firmly resisting such a measure, well, on the food and kitchen [...]
Apple Day, Victorian Orchards and Apple & Dorset Blue Vinny Scone Bread Recipe Today is Apple Day in the UK, a day to celebrate our home-grown apples and cherish them…….the day was first started in 1990 by Common Ground in Covent Garden. The following year it launched nationwide with over 50 events ranging from apple road-shows [...]
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, [...]
Sepia Saturday on Sunday! London “Bath” Buns for Best of British and Seventy Years of Be-Ro Baking Yes, it’s my weekly Sepia Saturday post, where I bake my way through seventy years of Be- Ro cookbooks from my treasured collection, only, of course it’s SUNDAY now, and therefore Sepia Saturday is Sepia Sunday this week……with [...]
~ Cake Stall Cakes & Bakes ~ July Tea Time Treats Round Up: Part Two Are you sitting comfortably? It’s time for PART TWO of the BIG FAT TEA TIME TREATS round-up! Feast your eyes on the following entries, if you missed PART ONE – never fear, cos’ it’s here: PART ONE: Tea Time [...]
Low Calorie Vanilla Bean Scones for a Wimbledon Strawberries & Cream Tea I swore to myself that I wouldn’t cash in on the “W” word on my blog, and it has been easier enough not to mention it until now…….but now, I find myself with a PERFECT Wimbledon recipe, and it’s gone STRAIGHT in to [...]
Jubilee Meal Planning Monday….. Cakes, Sandwiches, Fish and Barbecues! I am LOVING the Diamond Jubilee feeling…….there has been a palpable feeling of pride and patriotism and for me, an excuse to treat myself and some house guest to lovely food and drink, all in the name of the Jubilee! So, this week’s meal plan is JUST a little decadent and frivolous! Despite the weather I [...]
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