Spanish Seafood & Chorizo Skewers and Spicy Pepper Stir-Fry Recipes with La Plancha Just a little while ago, at the end of summer and beginning of autumn, my daughter came to see us in France for a little holiday, and we managed to grab the late summer sunshine whilst we still had it! One of the…
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Lest we Forget: Remembrance Sunday and The Wartime Kitchen Recipes
Lest we Forget: Remembrance Sunday and The Wartime Kitchen Recipes Today is a reflective day for me, a day to remember all those who have died in both World Wars as well as other and continuing conflicts, both home and abroad. It IS a sad and sombre day, but it is a day to recognise just how…
Sous Vide Poached Eggs: Posh Bacon & Eggs, Smoked Haddock & Eggs and Basic Poached Eggs
Sous Vide Poached Eggs: Posh Bacon & Eggs, Smoked Haddock & Eggs and Basic Poached Eggs Several months ago I was sent a Sous Vide Supreme water bath machine to trial and review; in return for my wonderful machine, and I have loved using it on many occasions, I committed to creating several recipes and…
British Sausage Week: Bangin’ Bonfire Bacon & Banger Burgers & Sausage Casserole Recipes
British Sausage Week: Bangin’ Bonfire Bacon & Banger Burgers & Sausage Casserole Recipes Hooray! It’s British Sausage Week and just in time for Guy Fawkes night, (Bonfire Night , Firework Night) which is on the 5th November, tomorrow – no Bonfire night is complete unless it has a few bangers on the menu. I LOVE…
Saturday Bakes & Cakes: All Soul’s Day and a Traditional Soul-Cakes Recipe
Saturday Bakes & Cakes: All Soul’s Day and a Traditional Soul-Cakes Recipe November is not my favourite month, after the beauty of September and October with the bounty of harvests, crimson and yellow leaves and mellow sunny days, November always seems drab and dull to me, and it’s usually when the grey, wet and cold…
Slow Sunday Brunch: Welsh Rabbit with Home-made Rustic French Boule (Bread)
Slow Sunday Brunch: Welsh Rabbit with Home-made Rustic French Boule (Bread) With an imminent hurricane and an extra hour in bed this morning, I decided to treat us to a “supper style” brunch – a firm favourite of ours and a dish that made use of some freshly baked bread I had made, a rustic…
Recipes, Notes & Reviews from my Kitchen: Hot Baked Tatties for an easy Autumn Lunch
Recipes, Notes & Reviews from my Kitchen: Hot Baked Tatties for an easy Autumn Lunch I have been on my travels recently, I have been down to Spain and the Basque country, as well as London, The Potteries in Staffordshire and beyond…….there will be many more posts (and recipes) about my travels over the next…
Bottling Tomatoes using the Water Bath Method: Step-by-Step Tutorial with Images & Recipe
It doesn’t matter now often you use your tomatoes in cooking and for salads etc, there always seems to be an excess of them, and this simple water bath method of bottling tomatoes is a great way to save them for the winter months ahead. Not so many years ago, and as recently as when…
Potage and Pulses for October: Spiced Red Lentil Soup with Frazzled Onions Recipe
Potage and Pulses for October: Spiced Red Lentil Soup with Frazzled Onions Recipe We are now almost in the midst of October……..so, well into autumn now, and winter and the sparkling festive season are just a few weeks away. The nights have drawn in and the clocks will be going back an hour next week,…
Warm Breakfast Duvet Day aka World Porridge Day!
Warm Breakfast Duvet Day aka World Porridge Day! As warm as a duvet and as snugly as a feather bed, today is a day to celebrate my favourite breakfast, Porridge, as it’s World Porridge Day! Organised by The Golden Spurtle, today is day to embrace oats and all that goes with them! The small Scottish Highland…
Elderberries, Hedgerow Harvests and A Cornucopia of Preserves for the Autumn Pantry
Elderberries, Hedgerow Harvests and A Cornucopia of Preserves for the Autumn Pantry October, one of my favourite months, and as John Keats so emphatically writes in his “Ode to Autumn”..….” Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”……..and indeed, for most gardeners it is a month of mellow fruitfulness – a veritable cornucopia of fruit, herbs and…
Autumn Still Life: Figs stuffed with Blue Cheese and Lavender Honey Drizzle (Recipe)
Autumn Still Life: Figs stuffed with Blue Cheese and Lavender Honey Drizzle (Recipe) Although I have enjoyed the amazingly hot and sunny summer we have had in Europe this year, I do look forward to the cooler months, especially autumn, which is my favourite season. I’m not a huge fan of the darker mornings and…
The Old Mirabelle Plum Tree: Spiced Mirabelle Plum Galette Recipe
The Old Mirabelle Plum Tree: Spiced Mirabelle Plum Galette Recipe At the bottom left of my French garden there is a beautiful old Mirabelle tree; it was here when we bought the house and every year it gives us kilos and kilos of gorgeous yellow and rosy pink fruit. Diminutive in size it may be compared…
Organic UK Naturally Different and a NEW Recipe: Maple, Almond & Pecan Granola with Blueberries
Organic UK Naturally Different and a NEW Recipe: Maple, Almond & Pecan Granola with Blueberries It has been a real pleasure to be part of the Organic UK Naturally Different campaign over the last eight months, and I was delighted when I was asked to be Organic UK’s blogger ambassador as I totally believe in the organic…
The Secret Recipe Club: Raspberry & Maple Granola Yoghurt Pots
The Secret Recipe Club: Raspberry & Maple Granola Yoghurt Pots For those eagle eyed readers amongst you who follow my monthly Secret Recipe Club posts, you may be thinking that my reveal day recipe is a little earlier than usual…….that’s because I have changed groups and I am now in Group C! I was in…
