~ 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 [...]
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 [...]
An Old Vintage Hovis Bread Tin and Nigel Slater’s Black Banana Cake Recipe I am an avid collector of what is called “Kitchenalia”, although some of my collection comes under the banner of “Kitsch-enalia”! I have plans to share my vintage collection of much-loved kitchen equipment soon – over many posts I am sure, as [...]
Galaxy Chocolate, World Baking Day and The Famous Drinking Chocolate Cake Recipe Do you remember when there was a walnut at the bottom of Walnut Whips (as well as the top), when cars had leather upholstery as standard, a holiday was a day trip to the beach, crisps had a little blue packet of salt [...]
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Persian Lamb, Aromatic Cauliflower & Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes March Core Ingredients: Lemons; Cauliflower; Leeks; Eggs; Chocolate and Lamb MARCH MENU: Persian Roast Lamb with Aromatic Rice Spiced Cauliflower Spicy Shepherd’s Pie with Cheesy Leek Topping Chocolate Truffle Cake with Crystallised Violets Welcome to my second Thrifty and Organic Meal Planner post! [...]
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 Cup of Tea and a Biscuit: Jumbles (Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe I love these biscuits (cookies), they are a real blast from the past and I have fond memories of them from my childhood – making these oaty morsels with my grandmother and my mum. These are not to be confused with Leicestershire Bosworth [...]
Kenwood Christmas Menu: Christmas Pudding Chocolate Spread and Spiced Quince & Cranberry Chutney Christmas arrived early last week, a VERY large and VERY heavy parcel was delivered to me, all wrapped in Christmas paper and with a card, just for me, from Kenwood. To say that I was ecstatic would be an understatement, I was very, very [...]
November is Happy Birthday for Tea Time Treats: Salted Caramel and Chocolate Fudge Birthday Cake Recipe Can you believe it, ONE whole year has flown by in a flurry of cakes, pies, tarts, fairy cakes, jam, bread, brioche, pastries, buttercream, parkin, chocolate, custard, biscuits, cookies, fruit, cherries, icing, marzipan, scones, pancakes, berries and booze! Yes, it [...]
Spooky Family Food and Baking Recipes for Halloween: Spiders, Owls and Mashed Spuds with a Twist! Today should be Sepia Saturday, where I share a Be-Ro recipe from one of my many old (and new) Be-Ro cookbooks, but, as Halloween is next week, I have decided to share some seasonal recipes with you……and, I am [...]
Karen S Booth
