~ 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 Coffee Challenge with De’Longhi: Italian Coffee Mocha Kisses and Brandy Snaps There is nothing as nice as afternoon tea, unless it happens to be afternoon coffee. I am a bit of a tea and coffee snob, and only drink the best stuff, made in a tea-pot for tea and in a cafetière for coffee. So, when [...]
Hot Smoked Salmon and Asparagus Terrine for the Le Creuset Cast Iron Challenge I have had a life-long love affair with cast iron cookware, probably since I was old enough to lift a casserole lid, and Le Creuset tops my cast iron cookware list. I am an avid collector of new and vintage Le Creuset, [...]
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 [...]
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Salmon with Herb Mayonnaise, Spring Greens & Orange Cream Cheese Cake Recipes April Core Ingredients: Oranges, Spring Greens, New Potatoes, Cream Cheese, Herbs and Salmon April Menu: Whole poached salmon with Herb mayonnaise Spring Greens with Citrus butter Minted New Potatoes Salmon & Vegetable Cheesy Bake Potted Salmon & Herb [...]
Easter Treats! Little Cadbury Creme Egg Pots with Chocolate Dipping Spoons It’s Good Friday and I am sharing an Easter treat that will be perfect to make and serve on Easter Sunday, maybe for Easter tea – it’s so simple, not really a recipe as such, more a melt and mix job! My Little Cadbury Creme [...]
Review & Recipe: OXO French Press, Irish Coffee and Douwe Egberts The beautifully sleek cafetière that you see at the top of my post is the amazing OXO French Press, a new way to make fresh coffee with ease; I was sent one recently along with some Douwe Egberts coffee to try out. I am a bit [...]
Nigel Slater comes to Supper: A Rich Dish of Sprouts and Cheese for a Very Cold Night It was a very cold night last week – the wind howled and moaned, and frisky little drafts kept tickling my neck originating from the door to the pantry, which creaks in an annoying way when it’s windy and blows cold air into the [...]
~ Very Berry Month of May ~ Support British Summer Fruits with Delicious Puddings and a Fabulous Giveaway Win FIVE Edith & Bob Great British Pudding Tea Towels & FIVE matching Prints I am extremely excited to tell you that I have teamed up with Seasonal Berries & British Summer Fruits as their Berry Blogger and we bring [...]
Lucky Friday the 13th with Tasty Fish on Friday ~ Brandade de Morue ~ (French Salt Cod and Potato Gratin) Brandade is a French dish which is a creamy, whipped emulsion of salt cod, garlic, parsley and olive oil which tends to be eaten in winter with bread or deep-fried toasts or croutons. In France it’s called Brandade de Morue and in Spain it is [...]
Vintage Kitchenalia, Kitsch Cruet Sets……… The Most Marvellous Chocolate Cake Bake Off! It’s hard not to feel happy when surrounded by cavorting fishy cruet sets, old wicker hampers, flamboyant maxi dresses, old-fashioned milk bottles, vintage Kenwood stand mixers and CAKE………..but, that is how exactly I found myself last Sunday, which was April Fool’s Day; however, nobody emerged [...]
Karen S Booth
