~ 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 ~
Recipe: Traditional Hot Cross Buns for Easter in the style of Brioche! Easter is less than a week away, and my Easter baking has started in earnest with batches of cakes, bread and Hot Cross Buns being made almost daily, some to freeze for next weekend, and the rest to scoff now! Last year, I shared [...]
Mothering Sunday and Blue & White China: Little Victoria Lemon Daisy Cakes Recipe Forgive me, but this is an indulgent post today, a sort of virtual Mothering Sunday card for my mum, with daisies and beautiful china………so, there will be very little chat and lots of photos, as well as the recipe for these pretty [...]
Poultry with Provenance, Lamb with Class and Regional British Cheeses from Farmison Just over a week ago I received the most amazing box of British meat and cheeses from Farmison. Farmison is an on-line company that sources prime British meat, poultry, fruit, vegetables, pantry ingredients and cheese – they are members of The Guild of [...]
The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe It’s Pudding time! February continues to be cold, snowy and almost Baltic, the sun shines bright and the days are crisp and clear, but by the late afternoon the temperature has plummeted to below zero and I can be found sitting in front of the fire contemplating bowls of soup. I have sensed [...]
A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe Celery, a simple vegetable, but with the unfortunate reputation of being served (stuck in a water-glass) as an accompaniment to those 70′s cheese board protagonists, Edam and Danish Blue, with cream crackers and a glass if Mateus Rose. But, celery can be [...]
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 Lavender & Lovage Weekend Bakery: Sticky Ginger Marmalade Tea Loaf Recipe I love baking, as many of my regular readers will know! I love the weighing and sifting, as well as the perusal of cookbooks and those cracking recipe ideas that come to you in the middle of the night. I also love bakeware, and [...]
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! [...]
Simple and in Season: December and January Round-Up A very Happy New Year to all of you wonderful Simple and in Season contributors and thanks for all of your wonderful entries! We had a fabulous response to the event with a plethora of roots, sprouts, winter fruits and nuts……..it was a veritable hamper of tasty recipes and mouth-watering photos. I [...]
Five-A-Day Family Supper Recipe: “Sunday Lunch” Chicken, Sausage and Vegetable Hotpot Ahhhh…..Slow Sunday! A day of comparative rest, unless you are cooking a “full on” family Sunday roast that is; a day to turn over in bed for another few minutes or half an hour, a day of “no bills” through the letter box. A [...]
Karen S Booth
