~ 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 ~
Giveaway: Win a Fabulous Scottish Fish Hamper, worth £46 delivered to your door! As regular readers will know, I am currently involved in a “Healthy Happy Hearts” fish challenge, where I will be eating fish at least twice a week, for a healthy happy heart! I have posted several fish recipes lately that use Omega [...]
Fish and Chips with Chablis for an Exciting Food and Wine Pairing! I love a challenge and when I was asked recently if I would like to enter a competition to pair Chablis, one of my favourite French wines, with “Take Away” food, I was intrigued and fascinated to have a go. It’s probably true to [...]
5:2 Diet Recipes, Red Noses, Pasta Bake, Fish Pie and a Weekly Meal Plan! My Monday Meal Plan for the week is late, I have been so busy, but I hope it will still inspire and help some of you when planning this week’s meals, as well as those on the 5:2 Diet, as I have two [...]
Giveaway: Win one of TWO packs of Fresh Wild Haddock Fillets worth over £50! January! A time for cutting back on calories and pennies! And, a GREAT chance to do BOTH by entering my latest giveaway. John at Delish Fish has very kindly offered TWO packs of Wild Scottish Haddock, all filleted and ready to cook, [...]
Day Four on the Advent Calendar: 4th December Window Four: Simple and in Season ~ December ~ It is with great pleasure that I open the December’s link for Simple and in Season, one of my favourite blog challenges, and the baby of Ren from Fabulicious Food, who is entrusting me with her seasonal challenge for [...]
Lavender and Lovage Sunday Patchwork Quilt of Recipes and Photos with 5:2 Fast Day Recipes It’s been a crazy week, I have been so busy with a house full of guests, as well as trying to catch up with lots of back posts, reviews whilst cooking for eight people, developing new recipes and cleaning! But, [...]
Fasting and Feasting with Fish on Friday: ~ Middle Eastern Tahini and Lemon Baked Fish ~ Perfect for the 5:2 Diet IT’s a LOW CALORIE Fish on Friday post and this recipe has been made with one of my favourite types of fish, Hake. And, the recipe in question is one of my own recipes, an exclusive restaurant [...]
- Lavender and Lovage Sunday Patchwork Quilt – Photos and Recipes + 5:2 Diet Recipes IT’s a hot Sunday and I am back with my weekly round-up of photos and recipes, by way of the Lavender and Lovage Sunday Patchwork Quilt of Photos and Recipes, and amongst my usual healthy eating and tea time treats recipes, I am [...]
Meal Planning Monday with Cake, Berries, Dorset Blue Vinny and Ploughman’s Lunches! Here we are with another Monday Meal Plan – and as usual, I am already half way through Monday before I post it……sorry! Last week’s meal plan was a great success and apart from one day, I managed to stick to it and [...]
~ 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
