~ 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 ~
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 [...]
~ The Lavender and Lovage 2012 Calendar of Recipes ~ Happy New Year! I am sure that this year has flown by, as it only seems like a few weeks ago that I was celebrating New Year 2012 with you all……and here we are again, on the eve of a New Year. I was in [...]
Historical Roast Turkey Recipe: Gilded Saffron & Butter Basted Turkey with Herb Garland Christmas arrived early last weekend when I received a lovely Seasonal Box from Knorr, with the makings of a wonderful Christmas dinner, including some handy Knorr gravy pots. One of my readers was lucky enough to win the same box, in a Giveaway I [...]
Giveaway: Win a Forman and Field Seasonal Turkey Christmas Dinner Box with Knorr I have the most AMAZING opportunity for all Lavender and Lovage readers in the UK to WIN their Christmas Dinner! The photo above and below represents the prize I have to give away to ONE lucky reader, a magnificent seasonal Turkey Dinner [...]
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 [...]
Autumn Figs and Seasonal Salads: Fresh Fig and Goat’s Cheese Salad with Walnuts It’s fig time in SW France, and I managed to pick several kilos of figs before I travelled back to the UK, and, I have been busy thinking up new fig recipes, as well as making jams, pickles, alcohol steeped figs and chutney with the [...]
Summertime and the Living is Easy…….. ~ Peperonata ~ Rustic Italian Pepper Stew Recipe Summertime and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush, little baby; don’t you cry One of these mornings you’re gonna rise up singing And [...]
Search for a Connoisseur & Sharp’s Brewery Smoked Mackerel with Hot Beetroot and Horseradish Cream I am always up for a cookery challenge and when I was approached by Sharp’s Brewery recently and asked if I would like to develop a recipe to be matched with a BEER, I was intrigued and very interested! I know that the usual pairing [...]
Lavender and Lovage Sunday Patchwork Quilt of Photos and Recipes I have LOTS of new plans for my blog, and this is just one of them…….to give me a day off and to catch my breath, and to showcase all the recipes and photos that I have posted over the last week, I am starting my Sunday [...]
~ Hello Fresh ~ Magic Menus and Great Food with Salmon for Fish on Friday How do you fancy receiving a box of HIGH QUALITY ingredients, with recipes cards for innovative and exciting meals, with the option of three meals or five meals for two people, four people or six people, and with a vegetarian option on all meal [...]
Karen S Booth
