~ 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 [...]
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 [...]
A Family Favourite and Winter Warmer: Traditional Cottage Pie with Cheesy Mash (Recipe) I am a Scotty Brand Blogger – this means every few weeks I receive a lovely package of fresh fruit or vegetables, from spuds to strawberries and raspberries to carrots, I have been lucky enough the receive all of these beautifully fresh, Scottish locally [...]
Kenwood Christmas Menu: ~ The Main Event ~ Beef Wellington (Boeuf en Croute) Recipe Over the last three weeks, myself and four other lucky food bloggers (Beth, Sian, Becs and Eliza) have been part of the Kenwood Christmas Menu challenge; we all received a Kenwood Titanium Chef in order to create a special Christmas menu. I [...]
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe It was my intention to cook a meal in a Hay Box at sometime in my wartime kitchen week; a hay box was a simple way to continue cooking a meal whilst you were out, or in order to save energy. The casserole, soup [...]
A Seasonal Slow Sunday Supper: Aromatic Beef and Quince Tagine with Pomegranate The season continues to move on with misty mornings and crisp frosty evenings, stars bright and the sky filled with fireworks, as Bonfire Night approaches on the 5th November. Meals are now taken by roaring fires and casseroles, daubes, stews, soups and [...]
Mid-Week Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet and Hungarian Savoury Minced Beef Recipe My Monday Meal Plans have been shunted to Mid-Week Meal Plans lately – but in one way, I prefer it, as I usually know what I am having on Monday and Tuesday, but it’s the rest of the week I sometimes have issues with, [...]
Organic October and Autumn Suppers: ~ Bonfire Chilli with Beef, Chocolate and Pumpkin ~ Autumn means…….. crisp mornings, misty mornings, crackling leaves, vibrant berries, Old Man’s Beard in tangled hedgerows, apples on damp grass, the smell of wood smoke, bonfires, woolly scarves, boots, red mittens, duffle coats, log fires, glistening dew covered cobwebs, pumpkins, candles, piles of books on the bedside table, crumpets, casseroles, dumplings, steamed puddings, the last rose of summer, fireworks, hot chocolate, fluffy duvets, tartan rugs, fireside suppers, Arran [...]
A Special 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days: Luxury Steak Burger with Artichokes and Olives I know what you are thinking, HOW can this LUSH looking burger be DIET food? Well, it is IF you use VERY lean minced beef or even better, minced steak. And, of course, you have to DITCH the bread bun [...]
Karen S Booth
