~ 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 [...]
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 [...]
Brilliant British Bakeware: Chicken & Leek Patchwork Pie, Mince Pies and Mincemeat Recipes I know I am always banging on about British ingredients and products on my blog, but, it’s important to me that I try to fly the flag for all things British, especially in these austere times when buying British may help keep companies afloat [...]
Strawberries and Flowers for Tea ~ Strawberry & Elderflower Cake and Tart Topping ~ Now is the time for fragrant lanes where clouds of billowing white frothy flowers hang heavy with rain drops……..damp earth and sweet-scented blossom pervades the damp summer air and bees hover over blooms in anticipation of nectar gathering. Berries glisten and blackbirds, the [...]
The prize included Wafer Daisies and Hundreds and Thousands as seen on my cakes A Cake Decorating Giveaway! Dr Oetker Cake & Baking Decorations to Celebrate Easter & Spring Win some great DR Oetker Decorations as used by me over Easter in these lovely little cakes and a BIG Clandestine Cake Club cake too! To [...]
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 [...]
~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 [...]
An English Classic with a Twist ~ Cranberry and Almond Bakewell Tart ~ I am not normally a lover of perfectly good recipes that have been messed about with and have a twist ~ I mean why meddle with perfection, and I would have added Bakewell Tart to the list until I discovered this recipe; but, having [...]
Baking! Pink Lady Apples and Little Apple and Custard Tartelettes I was very lucky to win a fabulous Magimix LeDuo Juicer courtesy of Pink Lady Apples and The Pink Whisk’s monthly challenge recently and although I have not put it to full use just yet, I have devised a Pink Lady recipe, with the [...]
Karen S Booth
