~ 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 ~
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe) Regular Lavender and Lovage readers may remember that I entered a baking contest recently here: La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year, sadly I didn’t win, you can’t win them all, but I did come in as [...]
5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipes: Coronation Potato Salad and Low-Fat Pan-Fried Garlic Hake Fillets The time between Christmas and New Year is a strange one on the culinary front – there is a plethora of sweets, cakes, pies, biscuits and other rich pickings from the savoury buffet table, as well as piles of turkey no [...]
~ La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year I LOVE this festive bread, La Rosca de Reyes, a Spanish celebration bread that is often called King Cake, that is infused with oranges, lemons and sometimes lines, as well as being decorated with candied peel and other fruits – usually cherries, figs and sometimes [...]
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 [...]
Festive Fish on Friday: Clementine and Honey Roast Salmon Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe My Fish on Friday post today is a little festive – I am starting to think of easy and yet spectacular ways to serve salads as part of the Christmas and New Year buffet table, as well as for light, tasty [...]
Making Winter, Baking with Mum and Wee Whisky Doused Hogmanay Dundee Cakes Making Winter with Silver Pebble and Thrifty Household A gentle meander down the lane to the local Farm Shop……..that early morning pearly light that shimmers over barren fields; the sharpness of first breath as you leave the warm cocoon of home. The crackle [...]
Karen S Booth
