~ 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 ~
Review: An English, Italian and Fairtrade Breakfast with Granola, Honey and Coffee What can be nicer than a leisurely breakfast? And, especially when that breakfast is filled with high quality and delicious products and ingredients, such as treacle and pecan granola from Lizi’s Granola, a cup of organic fair trade coffee from Puro Coffee and [...]
Giveaway: Win an Abra-ca-Debora Dutch Pancakes Hamper worth £50! I am pleased to be able to offer all Lavender and Lovage readers a FABULOUS hamper filled with tasty ingredients as my latest giveway today! Pancakes aren’t just for pancake day. In Holland, they eat them much more often than that. The Dutch make sweet ones and savoury ones [...]
Recipe: Pancakes for Everyday! My Marmalade Pancakes for Pancake Day +1 I know, I am a day late, but I was travelling all day yesterday and did not have time to rustle up a batch of pancakes whilst sitting on the train! However, if you still have some eggs and milk in your pantry that [...]
Boxing Day Brunch – Ham and Bubble and Squeak (Recipe) I hope your Christmas day was a wonderful day, filled with good food, wine, friends and family…..as mine was. Today, the 26th December, is Boxing Day in the UK and St Stephen’s Day…….The exact etymology of the term “boxing” is unclear, but it appears to [...]
The Hot & Spicy Breakfast Club! Mexican Breakfast Eggs – Two Ways I LOVE breakfast and I LOVE Mexican food, so when I saw that Heather from Girlichef was the guest host for Helen’s (Fuss Free Flavours) Monthly Breakfast Club, and that her theme was MEXICAN, I knew in a flash I was IN – [...]
Be-Ro Baking, Scottish Seafood, Italian Peppers and Picnic Pies for my Monday Meal Plan I missed last week, nobody said anything to me, so I let it slide, but I FORGOT to post my Monday Meal Plan last week and when I realised, it was Wednesday and too late! Our social life is to blame – it’s [...]
Lavender and Lovage Sunday Patchwork Quilt of Photos and Recipes I have LOTS of new plans for my blog, and this is just one of them…….to give me a day off and to catch my breath, and to showcase all the recipes and photos that I have posted over the last week, I am starting my Sunday [...]
~ A Provence Summer Preserve ~ French Set Apricot and Lavender Jam (Confiture) Heady perfumed lavender fields, rolling hills of thyme and oregano, hot sun, dusty paths, aching backs and grape stained fingers, hawks sitting on hay bales, the distant throb of a tractor, diesel, warm hands and faces, rich pate, crusty bread, herb scented rillettes, metallic [...]
Sun Dappled Summer Days Lavender Honey Roast Stone Fruits with Vanilla I have been cautious, I have NOT waxed lyrical about sun dappled summer days in the garden, with a hammock slung between two trees for swinging and reading…….no poems about larks or harvest fields have passed my lips or indeed my fingers as they type……I [...]
~ Monday Meal Plan ~ Mangoes, Seafood, Pancakes and Salads After a wet and dismal week last week I awoke to another dull and grey day…..for all of you out there who have been discussing the lasted racy novel Fifty Shades of Grey, let me tell you that I am sure they are talking about the weather this summer……..and on my Fifty Shades of Grey scale today, [...]
Karen S Booth
