~ 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 ~
An Art Deco Afternoon Tea Experience with Champagne at Bettys of York As a local Yorkshire lass who knows and loves Bettys, and who has had many a Fat Rascal from there, as well as ”rainy day” breakfasts of cinnamon toast and tea, when I was recently invited to take tea at Bettys of York, I was [...]
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 [...]
Review: SousVide Supreme Chicken Three Ways! Chicken Cordon Bleu, Lemon Thyme Chicken Kebabs & Chicken with Beans I have been on a bit of retro kick lately and have been rediscovering recipes from the 1970′s – those famous restaurant staples of many a restaurant or bistro, such as steak and chips, prawn cocktail, chef’s salad [...]
Review: “Food Glorious Food Book”….. From Cakes to Curries to Cornish Pasties Last night saw the culmination of many weeks of baking, cooking and judging when the final of “Food Glorious Food” was aired on ITV, with two dishes remaining in the competition. The winning cook’s dish was up to win £20,000 as well as [...]
Peppered Steak and Chips for St George’s Day and Great British Beef Week Happy St George’s Day to all my English readers, and also a very happy Great British Beef week too………perfect for that special meal for St George’s Day. The 23rd April is also Shakespeare’s birthday, so a thoroughly English day through and through, [...]
Review & Giveaway: – Fruit Curds: Make and Bake – Win a Preserves Workshop with Vivien Lloyd As many of my readers know, I love preserving and I recently entered some of my marmalade into the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, with some success, as you can read here: Pink Grapefruit Marmalade and The Lavender & [...]
The First Sunny Day of Spring! Strawberry Fair Yoghurt Cupcakes Recipe Hurrah! The sun has finally come out and spring has most definitely sprung today! The birds are singing, the bees are humming and I even heard a cuckoo earlier, as well as the contented clucking from my sun-worshipping hens. The mercury has risen the dizzy [...]
Review: An English, Italian and Fairtrade Breakfast with Granola, Honey and Coffee What can be nicer than a leisurely breakfast? And, especially when that breakfast is filled with high quality and delicious products and ingredients, such as treacle and pecan granola from Lizi’s Granola, a cup of organic fair trade coffee from Puro Coffee and [...]
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 [...]
Easter Chickens! A Lovely Easter Present by Post from Honeywell Bakes (Review) On a cold Maundy Thursday, with snow still on the ground, a parcel arrived for me……now, a parcel is always welcome at any time of the year, but never more than when that parcel contains delicious little iced biscuits – just in time for Easter! The biscuits were nestled [...]
Karen S Booth
