~ 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: Salmon with Herb Mayonnaise, Spring Greens & Orange Cream Cheese Cake Recipes April Core Ingredients: Oranges, Spring Greens, New Potatoes, Cream Cheese, Herbs and Salmon April Menu: Whole poached salmon with Herb mayonnaise Spring Greens with Citrus butter Minted New Potatoes Salmon & Vegetable Cheesy Bake Potted Salmon & Herb [...]
Smoked Cheese and Cherry Tomato Rarebit: On Toast Snack or Light Supper Recipe Sometimes all that is needed is something on toast; beans, tomatoes, cheese and egg are always perfect partners for an “on toast” snack or light supper dish, but it’s nice to push the taste boundaries when serving something on toast now and then. And [...]
The Secret Recipe Club: Brie and Pecan Canapés Recipe It’s that time again, the BIG reveal day as part of my participation with The Secret Recipe Club, where you are assigned a “secret” blog partner and where you make a recipe from that person’s blog and then share it via a Secret Recipe blog hop [...]
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe Do you remember those old-fashioned bakers, those ones where you could buy a loaf of bread and they used to pop it in a white paper bag and do that magic twisting thing to seal it – like sweet shops used to do as well! [...]
Winter Snack Recipe: Ploughman’s Rarebit - Cheese and Chutney on Toast with Pickles My mum’s pickled onions are the best in the world! Well, unless your mum’s are the best, as I am sure they are; but, if I am going to eat commercial pickles, than I expect the same quality as my mum’s – crisp, perfectly spiced [...]
Fish on Friday: Smoked Haddock Spread with Sourdough Toast and Mesclun Leaves Day fourteen on the Advent Calendar: 14th December It’s Friday, which can only mean one thing, my regular Fish on Friday post, and today I am featuring some fabulous smoked haddock; caught by Budding Rose and Lapwing, two weeks ago; the fish was [...]
Rural Store Cupboard Supplies, Sepia Saturday and Milk Fadge: Emergency Bread (No Yeast) Recipe I am known for my large store cupboard, larder, pantry and multiple freezers; whilst many people are embracing a minimalist lifestyle, and are madly de-cluttering their homes, as is the new trend, I am firmly resisting such a measure, well, on the food and kitchen [...]
Trains, Sandwiches and British Egg Week: French Egg & Tomato Breakfast Tartine with Lovage Someone once said “It is better to travel well, than to arrive”; a common saying that is often attributed to Buddah, although it probably originated from a quote taken from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “El Dorado”….. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive” [...]
The Lavender and Lovage Patchwork Quilt of Recipes and Photos It’s Sunday, and here I am with The Lavender and Lovage Sunday Patchwork of Recipes and Photos………it’s autumn too, a definite nip in the air, and when I awoke this morning, there were mists rolling over the fields nearby, as well as wood smoke suspended in [...]
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes It’s been an exciting day, we have guests, three lovely girls arrived yesterday for a week’s holiday and they have settled in already, and even laid three eggs today……….yes, it’s not my daughter and her two friends (although they are lovely [...]
Karen S Booth
