~ 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 ~
The Secret Recipe Club: Mexican Taco Seasoning with Fried Ice and Donut Holes One of the things I love about the blogging community are the “challenges” that are hosted by different blogs and people……I try wherever possible to join in and I have met some wonderful people through some of the events I enter; my [...]
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Persian Lamb, Aromatic Cauliflower & Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes March Core Ingredients: Lemons; Cauliflower; Leeks; Eggs; Chocolate and Lamb MARCH MENU: Persian Roast Lamb with Aromatic Rice Spiced Cauliflower Spicy Shepherd’s Pie with Cheesy Leek Topping Chocolate Truffle Cake with Crystallised Violets Welcome to my second Thrifty and Organic Meal Planner post! [...]
December Herbs on Saturday: Win a Cath Kidston Christmas Decorations Book Welcome to the NEW December Herbs on Saturday Challenge! Before I tell you about the special challenge I have planned for your this month, I would like to say a HUGE thanks to Jen over at Blue Kitchen Bakes for guest hosting the event [...]
Kenwood Christmas Menu: “All the Trimmings” Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples Recipe Day Three on the Advent Calendar: 3rd December: I can’t believe it is already the 3rd of December, and week three of the Kenwood Christmas Menu; this exciting challenge sees myself and four other food bloggers, Beth, Sian, Becs and Eliza, bake and [...]
Lincolnshire Plum Bread: A Fabulous Festive Fruit Bread and Random Recipe One of the comments I see lots of new bloggers saying over and over again, is how do they get noticed and generate comments as well as engage with the rest of the blogging community on their blogs; well, I felt just the same [...]
The Secret Recipe Club Without Adornment Slow Cooker Coconut Chicken Curry I was spoilt for choice this month with my partner for the Secret Recipe Club, so many lovely recipes and a fabulous blog to discover too……I had the pleasure to be given Bean who writes at Without Adornment. Bean’s blog is fabulous, and there were loads [...]
Book Review – Crazy Water Pickled Lemons by Diana Henry Imprint: Mitchell Beazley Format: Hardback Size: 260 x 194 x mm Pages: 192 ISBN: 9781845336547 Published: 6th February 2012 £15.99 Meringue and Rose Cake with Summer Berries I am a huge fan of Diana Henry and I have several of her books; however, this was one book that I didn’t already [...]
Gifts in a Jar ~ Mixed Spice ~ Old Fashioned English Pudding Spice The aromatic scent of the approaching festive season and Mum’s home baking, mixed spice is an essential jar in the spice rack. Mixed spice is a blend of sweet spices traditionally used in English cooking to provide a warming backnote. This typically [...]
Karen S Booth
