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Cake, Cake, Cake……Fresh Orange Layer Cake with Citrus Curd Buttercream

Preserves from the Pantry – Oranges & Lemons for St Clement’s Curd on Slow Sunday

Thyme Scented Baked Onions with Bacon & Cheese for Herbs on Saturday

Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day and a Quire of Paper – a Stack of Pancakes with Lemon & Sugar

Spotty Bananas does Posh Pancakes! Buttermilk Pancakes with Banoffee Bananas & Cream

Slow Sunday with Fish & Pancakes – Luxury Seafood Pancakes au Gratin

Fish on Friday: Smoked, Peppered Mackerel Pâté with Rye Bread Toasts

Soul Food Soup! Creamy Cauliflower & Stilton Cheese Soup for Random Recipes

Maple Syrup Walnut Layer Cake with Fudge Frosting – The Pink Whisk Recipe Challenge & Save the Children

Romance, Chocolate, Vanilla & Beetroot! Hot Chèvre & Beetroot Salad with Chocolate and Vanilla Balsamic Drizzle

Welsh Vegetarian Sausages for a Family Supper – Glamorgan Sausages (Selsig Morgannwg)

Farmhouse Breakfast Week starts Today! Featuring The Full Monty!

Let’s do Breakfast! Farmhouse Breakfast Week 22 – 28 January

A Secret Recipe Revealed! Michelle’s French Mayonnaise in a Flash

Plough Monday, Cottage Loaf and a Ploughman’s Lunch (Recipes)

Welcome! I'm Karen; it’s lovely to see you here. I was born in South Africa, but I've lived all over the world, latterly calling North Yorkshire my home where I lived for many years before moving to SW France, although I'm now living in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, in an old Victorian cottage. I am a freelance food and travel writer, as well as a food stylist, and recipe developer, with a passion for art, travel, books, photography, seasonal food and especially cheese and wine. Please do get in contact with me if you have any questions about my work or commissioning me. Read More…