~ 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 [...]
Quince Blossom and a Lazy Saturday Salad Recipe: Strawberry and Mint Fruit Salad Today has been a lazy day for me, for a change! My daughter has gone back home and I have just pottered all day – in the garden as well as in the kitchen. It’s all about strawberries today, and I have [...]
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 [...]
Ma Broon’s Burns Night Tribute Supper! Burns Night ~ 25th January A Guide to the Great Scottish Feast! Address To A Haggis “Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace As lang’s my arm.” [...]
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe) Regular Lavender and Lovage readers may remember that I entered a baking contest recently here: La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year, sadly I didn’t win, you can’t win them all, but I did come in as [...]
Kenwood Christmas Menu: Sweet Endings with Pomegranates, Pudding and Pavlova As you know from my post last week, I am one of five lucky food writers/bloggers that are participating in the Kenwood Christmas Menu challenge in the run up to Christmas; we were all sent a Kenwood Titanium Chef to help with our preparation for a fabulous [...]
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 [...]
Fresh Fruit for the Office with Fruitdrop, The Quince Tree and Baked Orchard Fruits with Vanilla and Honey Fruit, one of my favourite snacks as well as a favourite baking and cooking ingredient…….I love ALL types of fruit – apples, pears, quince, oranges, tangerines, plums, peaches, nectarines, mangoes, bananas, kiwi fruit, grapes etc…….so, when I [...]
An Autumn Baking Day – Redcurrant Fairy Cakes with Raspberries – Sunday morning, colder than normal and darker than I had expected, I crept downstairs to don my wellies and make my way to the hen hut……it had been raining in the night and the grass was soggy and wet underfoot, whilst large droplets fell [...]
Frolicking Fun and Frivolity with “Whim Wham” ~ A Scottish Regency Trifle ~ Who doesn’t love a bit of frolicking fun and frivolity? Especially when the weather has been dire this summer; so when I received a package of FRESH Scottish raspberries recently, my face LIT up and I immediately started to concoct a divine dessert that had FUN in the title [...]
Karen S Booth
