Mum’s Recipe for Michaelmas Dumplings – My mum’s recipe for fluffy apple filled dumplings that are cooked with seasonal blackberries. This is a wonderful way to end an autumn meal, whether it be for the family during the week or a celebratory dinner party. Serve these dumplings with fresh pouring cream or home-made custard. Hedgerow Harvest…
Halloween
Preserving the Season – Rowan & Apple Jelly
Rowan and Apple Jelly – A deliciously smoky, tangy and jewel-like jelly that goes perfectly with game, lamb, cheese and charcuterie. Made with “free” foraged berries from a tree on the lane opposite our house, and with windfall apples from our orchard. Hedgerow Harvest Part One The red berry tree waved its branches provocatively in…
Quick Sweet Pickled Cucumbers
Quick Pickled Cucumbers: An easy and very quick pickled cucumber recipe, which is ready in 24 to 48 hours. Perfect for that summer glut of small cucumbers. Serve these pickled cucumbers with cheese, charcuterie, sandwiches, smoked fish, hot dogs or burgers. Using your Summer Glut of Cucumbers I can almost sense and smell autumn in the…
A Visit to Halen Môn Sea Salt PDO on Anglesey
A Visit to Halen Môn Sea Salt PDO on Anglesey – One cold but sunny morning, I set off to Anglesey, just an hour from where I live in North Wales, to visit Halen Môn Sea Salt Saltcote, for a private behind-the-scenes tour and a salt tasting experience. Today’s post is an overview of my…
Leek & Chicken Casserole with Baked Dumplings
Welsh Leek & Chicken Casserole with Baked Herb Dumplings – Using locally sourced ingredients with provenance, this recipe is a real winter warmer, and would be perfect for any family supper to celebrate St David’s Day. Organic Welsh chicken is paired with locally grown Welsh leeks and shallots, which is cooked in a rich chicken…
Welsh Cawl (Lamb & Vegetable Stew)
Welsh Cawl (Lamb & Vegetable Stew) – Cawl is often seen as being the national dish of Wales, my recipe is based on a traditional Welsh recipe for Cawl, but uses lamb steaks in place of a lamb joint, as was commonly used in times gone by. A bowl of cawl is usually accompanied by…
Healthy Chilli Taco Bake with Popchips
This recipe for Healthy Chilli Taco Bake with Popchips is extremely easy to prepare and cook, and makes a delicious midweek family supper dish, especially when served with fresh salad. The minced beef and pepper mixture can be cooked beforehand, making the dish even easier to assemble before you want to cook it. NB: Popchips…
Smoked Cheese & Onion Straws
Smoked Cheese & Onion Straws – Made with excess Festive ingredients, such as puff pastry and smoked cheese from the cheese board, these are posh enough for cocktail nibbles as well as being perfect for the school lunch box, and, these tasty little smoked cheese numbers are easy to make and are loved by all…
Christmas Eve Fireside Supper Chicken & Ham Pie
Christmas Eve Fireside Supper Chicken & Ham Pie – A delectable and hearty pie which is perfect for a cosy Christmas Eve fireside supper, especially when served with a glass of chilled Provence Rosé wine. with Provence Wines UK It’s finally here! It’s Christmas Eve and it’s time for me, at least, to put down…
Smoky Chorizo and Butter Bean Hot Pot
Smoky Chorizo and Butter Bean Hot Pot – An easy, hearty and comforting dish that uses handy store cupboard and pantry ingredients, such as tinned tomatoes and tinned beans. Love Canned Food Winter arrived over the weekend, with sugar-fine snow coating the hills and high ground in the North and the North West of the…
Welsh Lamb Cornbread Cobbler
Welsh Lamb Cornbread Cobbler – A slightly kicked-up spicy lamb casserole using PGI Welsh Lamb with a baked cornbread cobbler topping, perfect for a Winter’s Day! with PGI Welsh Lamb What an appropriate day to post my latest recipe for Welsh Lamb Cornbread Cobbler, the perfect family supper dish for the beginning of November, and the day…
Devilishly Tasty Mini Toad-in-the-Holes
Devilishly Tasty Mini Toad-in-the-Holes, these mini “Toads” are perfect for Halloween or Bonfire parties, and are served with spicy tomato & chilli relish Seasonal Recipe using Shaws 1889 Devilish Tomato & Chilli Relish It’s that time of year again, the nights are drawing in and there’s a definite nip in the air early mornings and…
Chilli and Coriander Pork Patties
Chilli and Coriander Pork Patties – Easy to make and serve, these spicy pork patties are made with sausage meat and are served in pita breads with salad. Adjust the chilli heat to taste. (uncooked patties can be frozen for up to 2 months) with Pura Coconut Oil Blend Spray Today’s recipe for Chilli and Coriander…
Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy
Light and Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits with Southern Style Sausage Gravy – These fabulous Biscuits are perfect with creamy sausage gravy for breakfast & brunch or for Cast Iron Casseroles. Southern Style Breakfast & Brunch Recipes When is a Biscuit a Scone and a Cookie a Biscuit? Biscuit is a term used for a variety of…
Beer and Cheese Bread in a Crock
Beer and Cheese Bread in a Crock – Delicious “no knead” artisan style bread made in a cast iron crock, using a fabulous unfiltered rye IPA & Vintage Cheddar; the recipe is based on my ever popular “Our Daily Bread in a Crock – Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread” with Longhorn Unfiltered Rye IPA…