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Lavender Honey Flapjacks: The Modern Peasant – Adventures in City Food – (Book Review) The Modern Peasant – Adventures in City Food by JoJo Tulloh Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Chatto & Windus part of Vintage Publishing (30 May 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0701186682 ISBN-13: 978-0701186685 RRP: £16:99 Few review books that have been sent to me have [...]
Old Fashioned Roses and an English Garden Salad with Cheese and Eggs Nodding seductively by the gate to the drive, are several beautiful old-fashioned shrub roses, some of them bought and some of them from cuttings by my very green-fingered mum, who simply sticks rose (and other plants) stems into soil and they all take! [...]
Herbs on Saturday for June: – Cooking with Herbs Challenge – Win a Pot of Culinary Lavender Grains Welcome to a NEW Herbs on Saturday cooking challenge and a BIG thanks to Anneli from Delicieux who hosted last month’s MEGA challenge! You can see her round-up here: Epic Round Up: Herbs On Saturday Cooking Challenge for [...]
Fish on Friday – 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe: Smoked Haddock and Spinach Gratin (200 calories) I must apologise for my lack of “Fish on Friday” posts lately – I have been out on Fridays a lot recently, and have not been able to develop any new recipes or share them here…….but today, even though [...]
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 [...]
Win a Baking Party Pack for World Baking Day 19th May 2013 Bake for fun, bake with friends and Bake Brave – that’s the message to everyone for World Baking Day 2013. The global event happens annually on the third Sunday in May – and everyone’s invited to join in the fun, from beginner to [...]
April Herbs on Saturday: Win a Cooking with Edible Flowers Book! Welcome to April’s Herbs on Saturday Challenge! Before I start, I would like to say a HUGE thanks to the lovely Andi over at London Busy Body who was the fabulous host for March, and you can see her brilliant round-up here: Herbs on Saturday – [...]
Review & Recipe: OXO French Press, Irish Coffee and Douwe Egberts The beautifully sleek cafetière that you see at the top of my post is the amazing OXO French Press, a new way to make fresh coffee with ease; I was sent one recently along with some Douwe Egberts coffee to try out. I am a bit [...]
Recipe: Pink Grapefruit Marmalade and The Lavender & Lovage Marmalade Awards Results! National Marmalade week is over, as is the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, and I am left with dozens of jars of assorted marmalade, as well as a big surprise – THREE certificates from my three entries into the Marmalade Awards! Along with Sue and [...]
Herbs on Saturday February Round-Up and the Winner announced! Welcome to another month of herbal glory, as ever, you have all risen to the herbal challenge and I am amazed at the range of herbs that have been used in the delectable recipes shown below! There is a winner, for the wonderful book “Self-sufficiency Foraging” by [...]
Karen S Booth
