~ 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 Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe It’s Pudding time! February continues to be cold, snowy and almost Baltic, the sun shines bright and the days are crisp and clear, but by the late afternoon the temperature has plummeted to below zero and I can be found sitting in front of the fire contemplating bowls of soup. I have sensed [...]
A Bonfire Treat! Sticky Yorkshire Ginger Parkin with Quince and Pomegranate Compote I LOVE sticky ginger parkin, it’s one of my favourite treats at this time of the year, and is JUST perfect for Bonfire night along with treacle toffee aka Tom Trot toffee, tomato soup in cups, chilli, stews, soups and toffee apples…..my recipe [...]
Taste the Season with British Apples and Pears: Apple, Bramble & Pear Tray Bake Recipe I LOVE autumn, it’s my favourite season by far, and one of the reasons I am so in tune with the season, apart from the glorious foliage, is the abundance of produce that is available now…….pumpkins, walnuts, cobnuts, squash, quince, blackberries, elderberries, cabbages [...]
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 [...]
Elderberries, Stormy Days and Meal Planning: Autumn Broth Recipe (5:2 Diet) It’s Tuesday, it’s late September, it’s VERY stormy and it’s my weekly meal plan, late again, although I may just start to post it on Tuesday now…….as it seems to fit in better with my schedule, and it’s a bit free and easy this [...]
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 [...]
Sepia Saturday and Baking with Be-Ro: Australian Crunchies (Traybake) School Lunch Box Treats! The big BIG reveal time for my SECOND Sepia Saturday post! And, it’s taken from the 35th edition of one of my Be-Ro books, and is under the section of “cooking for children”, it’s Australian Crunchie, an easy tray bake biscuit, and is loved by all who [...]
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 [...]
Karen S Booth
