~ 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Memories of Hong Kong and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe: Minced Beef and Mint Kheema Keema served with pau (Indian bun) and green chillies in Mumbai, India Origin: Place of origin Pakistan/India Region or state South Asia Details: Food Main ingredient(s) Meat, peas or potatoes Keema, Kheema, or Qeema (Sindhi: قيمو,Hindi: क़ीमा, Urdu: قیمہ, pronounced [...]
French 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe and Monday Meal Plan: Provençal Chicken and Fennel Braise Many people will have read “A Year in Provence” by Peter Mayle, it was the book that launched a thousand moves by Brits to France during the late 80′s and 90′s; the book is packed with idyllic “long French lunches”, pâté terrine, idle [...]
TV Pizza Night! Sun-Dried Tomato, Red Onion and Chorizo Pizza Recipe With winter returning to the landscape via shed loads of snow and cruel Easterly winds, my evenings have reverted to fireside suppers whilst watching the TV again…….mainly cooking programmes, much to my husband’s disgust! And, with these cosy evenings comes the desire for comfort [...]
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! [...]
5:2 Diet 225 Calorie Kebabs! Cajun Chicken Kebab and Spiced Yoghurt Dip Recipe I am rather proud of this low-calorie recipe! I often hanker after tasty “fast food” types of food when I am on a diet, and although I have never really found a decent chicken kebab outside of Cyprus (or Turkey and Greece) [...]
Meal Plan: – Diet Food and Comfort Food – Farmhouse Chicken & Vegetable Stew with Dumplings Recipe I apologise for missing out on last week’s Monday Meal Plan, but, I was making marmalade in Somerset with Vivien Lloyd, and was away from Sunday until very late on Monday evening when I got back home. I [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choy! Easy Chicken Chow Mein Recipe Chinese Symbol for Happy Chinese New Year (恭禧發財) Happy Chinese New Year! How to say Happy Chinese New Year in Chinese? The most common Chinese ways of saying Happy New Year are Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) and Gong Hey Fat Choy (Cantonese). Even though the [...]
Karen S Booth
