The Lavender and Lovage Sandwich Bar British Sandwich Week Three Cheese Spring Spread Following on from British Bread week, what better time than to celebrate the humble “sarnie” or “butty” – one of our greatest British inventions, the Sandwich! This year, British Sandwich Week is celebrating 250 years of the humble sarnie…….and there is a…
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Scones for Sunday and Birthday Parties! Buttermilk and Mixed Fruit Scones with Sour Cherry Jam
Scones for Sunday and Birthday Parties! ~ Buttermilk and Mixed Fruit Scones with Sour Cherry Jam ~ It’s the day after the party………the kitchen still looks like a bomb as hit it, and there are acres of food under cling film, which are covering every available surface. My mum was the chief cook and baker for my birthday this…
The Very Merry Soup Month of May! Curried Scottish Carrot and Lentil Soup
The Very Merry Soup Month of May! Curried Scottish Carrot and Lentil Soup Who would have thought that in May I would still be hankering after soup to warm the soul as well as me! We are only two days into May and already I am planning more soup days….. which, as it happens is fine,…
Herbs on Saturday: Marinated English Goat’s Cheese with Wild Garlic, Stem Ginger and Herbs
~ Herbs on Saturday ~ Marinated English Goat’s Cheese with Wild Garlic, Stem Ginger and Herbs I have to apologise, I have let Herbs on Saturday lapse this last month…..I have just been so busy and I never got around to making the linky for the Blog Hop…….however, I am starting the Herbs on Saturday…
Old Cookbooks and Recipes – Be-Ro Dropped Scones for Breakfast (Griddle Cakes)
Be-Ro Dropped Scones for Breakfast (Griddle Cakes) – Old fashioned Griddle pancakes, also called Dropped Scones, these are easy to make and make a lovely breakfast dish, tea time treat or a dessert dish. Old Cookbooks & Recipes ~ Be-Ro Dropped Scones for Breakfast ~ (Griddle Cakes) It’s one of those mornings where you fancy…
Last Day to Celebrate British Bread Week with my Mum’s Scottish Morning Rolls – Baps
Last Day to Celebrate British Bread Week with my Mum’s Scottish Morning Rolls – Baps National Bread Week 16th – 22nd April 2012 is National Bread Week in the UK For my last bread post for British Bread Week I am sharing my Mum’s recipe for Baps, Scottish Morning Rolls. These classic Scottish bread rolls…
Celebrating National Stilton Week with Auld Alliance: Potted Blue Cheese and Scotch Whisky
Celebrating National Stilton Week Auld Alliance: Potted Blue Cheese & Scotch Whisky “Drink a pot of ale, eat a scoop of Stilton, every day, you will make ‘old bones’.” Nineteenth-century saying, Wymondham”Drink a pot of ale, eat a scoop of Stilton, every day, you will make ‘old bones’.” Nineteenth-century saying, Wymondham I love fish,…
Celebrating British Bread Week with Farmhouse Oatmeal Bread for Toast, Soup & Sandwiches
Celebrating British Bread Week with Farmhouse Oatmeal Bread for Toast, Soup & Sandwiches National Bread Week 16th – 22nd April 2012 is National Bread Week in the UK As you may remember from my last post about National Bread Week, Baps, Bloomers and Barm Cakes – Celebrating British Bread Week with Rustic Flower Pot Bread Loaves,…
Frisée Salad with Artichoke Hearts, Membrillo, Manchego Cheese & Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Frisée Salad with Artichoke Hearts, Membrillo, Manchego Cheese & Sun-Dried Tomatoes No Croutons Required The No Croutons Required challenge set by Jacqueline over at Tinned Tomatoes this month is one that is right up my street; make a vegetarian soup or salad recipe using antipasti from your store cupboard, such as peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, courgettes and artichokes…
Baps, Bloomers and Barm Cakes – Celebrating British Bread Week with Rustic Flower Pot Bread Loaves
“Baps, Bloomers and Barm Cakes” Celebrating British Bread Week ~ Rustic Flower Pot Bread Loaves ~ National Bread Week 16th – 22nd April 2012 is National Bread Week in the UK British Bread week gives us all the opportunity to celebrate one of the oldest and most popular types of food – bread. Ours…
Banderillas Picantes – Pickles on Skewers for Tapas and Random Recipes
~ Banderillas Picantes ~ Pickles on Skewers for Tapas Random Recipes It’s Belleau Kitchen’s second birthday and so Dom has come up with a corker of an idea; the Random Recipes challenge for April is to bake something special for him from a random baking book……..but, somehow that got lost in translation for me and I excitedly…
Retro Chic Comfort Food, The Grand National & Rumbledethumps – Scottish Potato, Cabbage & Cheese Gratin with Chives
Retro Chic Comfort Food, The Grand National Rumbledethumps ~ Scottish Potato, Cabbage & Cheese Gratin with Chives ~ Old method and recipe for making Rumbledethumps: Take a peck of purtatoes, and put them into a boyne — at them with a beetle — a dab of butter — the beetle again — anither dab —…
“Poor Man’s Bread” – Victorian Watercress Tea Sandwiches for High Tea, Children’s School Lunchbox and Picnics
“Poor Man’s Bread” Victorian Watercress Tea Sandwiches for High Tea, Children’s School Lunchbox and Picnics This wonderful and vibrant leafy green plant used to be far more popular than it is nowadays, as well as considerably cheaper too. In fact it was the often known as “Poor Man’s Bread” during the Victorian times, as many impoverished labourers would have access…
Maundy Thursday & Royal Jam Pennies – Posh Jam Sandwiches
Maundy Thursday & Royal Jam Pennies ~ Posh Jam Sandwiches ~ Today is Maundy Thursday, also called Holy Thursday and is the day before Good Friday and the Easter weekend, when Christians remember the last supper, the crucifixion and the death of Jesus, as well as the Resurrection to new life. Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the…
The Perfect Pot and Cup of English Tea with Trumpers Tea & Betty Twyford
The Perfect Pot and Cup of English Tea Trumpers Tea & Betty Twyford I was delighted to receive a wonderful treasure trove of loose teas last week, and I DO mean a veritable chest of tea treasure; I am a BIG tea drinker as well as being a loose tea drinker, and so the caddies of Trumpers Teas that…