~ 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 ~
British Yorkshire Pudding Day: My Grandma’s Traditional Yorkshire Pudding Recipe for Breakfast! Hooray! It’s Yorkshire Pudding Day! Out of all of the “National Awareness Days” that proliferate, this has to be one of my favourites! This isn’t the first time I have celebrated this day of the Northern Pudding, you can read all about my Grandma’s Traditional Yorkshire Pudding Recipe from last [...]
Breakfast Week Meal Plan: ~ Baked Full English Breakfast Recipe ~ 5:2 Diet Breakfast Ideas The house is infused with a wonderful citrus aroma as I sit and type my post this morning; a batch of three fruits marmalade is on the hob and simmering away quite happily and it smells like breakfast, that marmalade [...]
Day Eight on the Advent Calendar: 8th December: Christmas Trees and Bacon, Cheese & Garlic Fougasse Recipe It’s time to talk trees, Christmas trees…….real trees or faux trees, what’s you preference? I have always loved a real Christmas tree, and avalanches of needle drop have never really bothered me – the smell and “presence” of [...]
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea High Flight (John Gillespie Magee, Jr.) Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed [...]
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe – Day four of my living off wartime rations, and I am hankering after a little meat in my diet, curiously enough, as I am not a huge meat-eater normally. I still have my bacon and meat rations left, as well as my cheese [...]
Sunday Lunch: Roast Pumpkin Salad with Pancetta, Grana Padano and Pumpkin Seeds I awoke to a heavy white frost today with flocks of iridescent starlings on the lawn…….my trip to the hen-house was accompanied by crunching footsteps as I made my way over sparkling white grass, and I could sense the eyes of hungry blackbirds watching my [...]
The Secret Recipe Club, Homemade Thin Crust Pizza with Bacon and The Fearless Homemaker Meet Amy, my lovely secret partner from The Secret Recipe Club for September! She writes over at Fearless Homemaker and I loved looking through her blog! Amy says…….”welcome to fearless homemaker! i’m amy, + this blog chronicles my journey navigating the world of homemaking – [...]
Fish on Friday and a Wet Barbecue Weather Recipe! Herb Marinated BBQ Scallop & Bacon Skewers (Kebabs) Yes I know, it’s raining and blowing a gale in parts of the UK, and my Fish on Friday post is all about BARBECUES! But, any fish or seafood that can be cooked on a BBQ, can also be [...]
Tea Time Treats An Invitation to a VERY Large Tea Time Treats Table! Scones & the March Recipe Round-Up SCONES! And it’s time for Part Two, the second sitting of the Tea Time Treats monthly round-up of SCONES: Tea Time Treats – Scones – March 2012 The Second Sitting: (Part one and the First Sitting [...]
An Invitation to a VERY Large Tea Time Treats Table! Scones & the March Recipe Round-Up Well, you have all OUTDONE yourselves this month, I mean you have all baked like crazy and subsequently we had a STAGGERING FIFTY SIX entries! I had to uncork a bottle of wine whilst writing this round-up, and as there are [...]
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