~ 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 ~
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.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pudding Basins, Day Fifteen on the Advent Calendar and Steak and Kidney Pudding with Mushrooms 15th December 2011 Window number fifteen is Traditional Pudding Basins The weather has been utterly foul lately, torrential rain along with gale force winds have wreaked havoc in my garden and have frightened the living daylights out of my poor wee hens…..I am amazed that they are still laying. [...]
Karen S Booth
