Quick and Simple Pasta Pronto! Swiss Chard and Walnut Pesto Recipe Pasta, that easy to prepare mid-week meal, or a weekend indulgence with wine and maybe half an acre of garlic bread – it comes in many guises and it’s astonishing to think that we only really embraced this “foreign” ingredient about forty to forty-five years ago. Many an…
Tree Nuts
Merry Christmas! Magic, Carols, Snowflakes, Mince Pies and Fairy Cakes
Merry Christmas! Magic, Carols, Snowflakes, Mince Pies and Fairy Cakes Loreena McKennitt – In The Bleak Midwinter Merry Christmas and a VERY Happy New Year to all my readers! I have added a link to one of my favourite carols, “In The Bleak Midwinter”, sung by Loreena McKennitt as a small gift to you all!…
Sepia Saturday: Eighty Years of Baking with Be-Ro – Melting Moments (Biscuits/Cookies)
~ Sepia Saturday ~ Eighty Years of Baking with Be-Ro Melting Moments (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe I have had this idea for several months, but I decided to launch my Sepia Saturday after entering Dom’s Random Recipes last month – we all had to “show and tell” about our cookbooks and I duly complied with my post…
Frolicking Fun and Frivolity with “Whim Wham” ~ A Scottish Regency Trifle
Frolicking Fun and Frivolity with “Whim Wham” ~ A Scottish Regency Trifle ~ Who doesn’t love a bit of frolicking fun and frivolity? Especially when the weather has been dire this summer; so when I received a package of FRESH Scottish raspberries recently, my face LIT up and I immediately started to concoct a divine dessert that had FUN in the title…
Summer Holiday Baking: Pear,Walnut & Goat’s Cheese Breakfast Buns (Muffins)
Summer Holiday Baking: Pear,Walnut & Goat’s Cheese Breakfast Buns (Muffins) I have been jamming, as in making the sweet conserve, and baking……the wet and cold weather brings out the baker and preserver in me……as if I need to feed the soul and lay down stores for the winter. By nine o’clock this morning I had…
The Long French Lunch and Poulet Nomade ~ Nomad’s Chicken (Herb Poached Chicken in a Jar)
~ The Long French Lunch ~ Poulet Nomade ~ Nomad’s Chicken (Herb Poached Chicken in a Jar) Yes, it’s still raining, even in France where I am now for the summer……each day brings more shades of grey, and different levels of drizzle and dampness…….We’ve had ONE sunny day, when I had the picnic at the bottom…
Team Capricorn! Olympic Power Salad with Goat’s Cheese, Fruit and Nuts
Team Capricorn! Olympic Power Salad with Goat’s Cheese, Fruit and Nuts #CapricornChallenge Not more Goat’s cheese I can hear you saying, or maybe not if you love it as much as I do! But, the thing is this, the hamper that I was sent from Ethel the Goat at Capricorn Goat’s Cheese was stuffed with such amazing ingredients,…