~ 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 ~
5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe: Wild Garlic and Chilli Sweetcorn Fritters (185 Calories) It’s time to go back on the 5:2 diet, after a few weeks of unfettered eating whilst travelling and staying with my parents, I am keen to get back on my two fast days a week. And, I want, or should I [...]
Cold Roast Beef Salad with Bread and Bagels: Plus New Kitchen Knives! I was sent TWO new knives recently for review, two Eden Classic Damast Knives – an Eden Quality Classic Damast Bread knife 20 cm (8″) and a Eden Quality Classic Damast Carving knife 20 cm (8″). I was more than a little delighted when I received them, [...]
Giveaway: – 2 x Eden Classic Damast Knives – Bread Knife & Carving Knife (RRP: £79:90) If you enjoy cooking, as I do, then you will know that knives are VERY important, and I get so frustrated when I reach for a knife that is blunt or worse still, with a loose handle! But, I recently discovered Eden Classic Damast Knives [...]
National Vegetarian Week, Seasonal Favourites, 5:2 Recipes and my Weekly Meal Plan This week is National Vegetarian Week, and I was set a challenge by Asda supermarket to eat vegetarian all week! I was happy to accept, and felt a little bit of a fraud, as to eat vegetarian all week is an easy challenge for me, [...]
World Baking Day……Cakes Galore and my Vanilla, Strawberry & Rose Victoria Sandwich Cake Are you brave enough to Bake Brave tomorrow, Sunday 19th May 2013? Just ONE more day to go, and you can choose from 100 wonderful cakes to make on the World Baking Day website here: World Baking Day 19th May – The [...]
Celebrating Britain’s Most Famous Snack – The Sandwich! Egg and Two Cress Sandwich Recipe It was a moment of pure brilliance the night that the 4th Earl of Sandwich asked for his cold roast beef to be served between two sliced of bread, as not to dirty his playing cards, and so the “sandwich” was [...]
An Art Deco Afternoon Tea Experience with Champagne at Bettys of York As a local Yorkshire lass who knows and loves Bettys, and who has had many a Fat Rascal from there, as well as ”rainy day” breakfasts of cinnamon toast and tea, when I was recently invited to take tea at Bettys of York, I was [...]
Giveaway: Bettys Champagne Afternoon Tea for Two at Harrogate or York (Worth £65:90) What a fabulous treat I have for all Lavender and Lovage readers, a wonderful opportunity to win a Champagne Afternoon Tea for Two at Bettys of York or Harrogate, worth £65:90. I am so excited to be able to offer this very [...]
The Fast Diet: Menu Planning and Recipes Revisited for the 5:2 Diet Last week was a funny old week, it started off with a lovely birthday on Sunday, a trip to Fountains Abbey on Monday and then sadness on Thursday……more about all of these events later, but for today I want to share some [...]
Giveaway: Win a Summer Picnic Hamper with Belvoir Fruit Farms Imagine this, a summer’s day, no work and plans for a country or seaside picnic, well, I have JUST the thing for all Lavender and Lovage readers, a FABULOUS Summer Picnic Hamper from Belvoir Fruit Farms……..perfect for a picnic by the river, the seaside or just [...]
Karen S Booth
