Apple Day, Victorian Orchards and Apple & Dorset Blue Vinny Scone Bread Recipe Today is Apple Day in the UK, a day to celebrate our home-grown apples and cherish them…….the day was first started in 1990 by Common Ground in Covent Garden. The following year it launched nationwide with over 50 events ranging from apple road-shows …
Vegetarian
Sepia Saturday, Log Fires and Old-Fashioned Granny Loaf (Egg-Free and Fat-Free) Recipe
Sepia Saturday, Log Fires and Old-Fashioned Granny Loaf (Egg-Free and Fat-Free) Recipe Sepia Saturday, Log Fires and Old-Fashioned Granny Loaf (Egg-Free and Fat-Free) Recipe This week’s Sepia Saturday is all about National Baking Week, which runs from the 15th to the 21st October in the UK; this year’s campaign, 2012, is synonymous with Britishness: Queen’s Diamond…
From the Autumn Preserves Pantry – Apple, Fig and Pear Chutney with Cardamom
From the Autumn Preserves Pantry – Apple, Fig and Pear Chutney with Cardamom – I am well into my preserving season now, and all sorts of jams, jellies, cheeses, chutney, bottled fruits, liqueurs, pickles and relishes have already been made and are sitting with their paper mob caps and labels in the pantry…….waiting for Christmas,…
Fresh Fruit for the Office with Fruitdrop, The Quince Tree and Baked Orchard Fruits with Vanilla and Honey
Fresh Fruit for the Office with Fruitdrop, The Quince Tree and Baked Orchard Fruits with Vanilla and Honey Fruit, one of my favourite snacks as well as a favourite baking and cooking ingredient…….I love ALL types of fruit – apples, pears, quince, oranges, tangerines, plums, peaches, nectarines, mangoes, bananas, kiwi fruit, grapes etc…….so, when I…
Sepia Saturday with Be-Ro, Tea Time Treats and Rich Jam and Coconut Cake Recipe
Sepia Saturday with Be-Ro, Tea Time Treats and Rich Jam and Coconut Cake Recipe It’s Saturday and it’s Sepia, as in Sepia Saturday, the weekly baking challenge where I attempt to bake my way through eighty years of Be-Ro cookbooks……although, I have not posted a Be-Ro bake for the last three weeks due to travelling and other…
Taste the Season with British Apples and Pears: Apple, Bramble & Pear Tray Bake Recipe
Taste the Season with British Apples and Pears: Apple, Bramble & Pear Tray Bake Recipe I LOVE autumn, it’s my favourite season by far, and one of the reasons I am so in tune with the season, apart from the glorious foliage, is the abundance of produce that is available now…….pumpkins, walnuts, cobnuts, squash, quince, blackberries, elderberries, cabbages…
Mid-Week Meal Plan: Meat-Free Scotch Broth Recipe (5:2 Fast and Feast Diet)
Mid-Week Meal Plan: Meat-Free Scotch Broth Recipe (5:2 Fast and Feast Diet) A Mid-Week Meal Plan! I missed Monday again, and Tuesday, but I did plan the week ahead as I am having my usual two 5:2 low-calorie days this week (I only managed one a week whilst I was travelling and away from home)…
Trains, Sandwiches and British Egg Week: French Egg & Tomato Breakfast Tartine with Lovage
Trains, Sandwiches and British Egg Week: French Egg & Tomato Breakfast Tartine with Lovage Someone once said “It is better to travel well, than to arrive”; a common saying that is often attributed to Buddah, although it probably originated from a quote taken from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “El Dorado”….. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive”…
The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat!
The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat! It’s been a busy month for me and I am way behind with my Sepia Saturday posts; for those of you who don’t know what they are, it’s my weekly attempt to bake my way through seventy to eighty…
Autumn Figs and Seasonal Salads: Fresh Fig and Goat’s Cheese Salad with Walnuts
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…
Elderberries, Stormy Days and Meal Planning: Autumn Broth Recipe (5:2 Diet)
Elderberries, Stormy Days and Meal Planning: Autumn Broth Recipe (5:2 Diet) It’s Tuesday, it’s late September, it’s VERY stormy and it’s my weekly meal plan, late again, although I may just start to post it on Tuesday now…….as it seems to fit in better with my schedule, and it’s a bit free and easy this…
Celebrate Better Breakfast Week with New Zealand Honey and my Fluffy Porridge Pancakes Recipe!
Celebrate Better Breakfast Week with New Zealand Honey and my Fluffy Porridge Pancakes Recipe! Breakfast has to be my favourite meal of the day; it’s the only time I get to eat what I really love, and not feel guilty about it! I mean, what other meal of the day consists of crispy bacon, fried eggs,…
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast (190 Calories)
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast – (190 Calories) One of the things I miss when I am on one of my low-calorie days (Fast Day) on the 5:2 diet is something “on toast”…….I am terribly British in my love of anything on…
Damson Day with Vivien Lloyd: Autumn Preserves Workshop in an Old Somerset Farmhouse
Damson Day with Vivien Lloyd: Autumn Preserves Workshop in an Old Somerset Farmhouse For those of you in the preserving world, there will be no need to introduce Vivien Lloyd, as she is a well-known and much respected WI judge, as well as being the author of First Preserves (Marmalades, Jams, Chutneys), a best-selling and…
Vintage Plates, Organic September ~ My Family Recipe for Rustic Style Potato Salad
Vintage Plates ~ Organic September ~ My Family Recipe for Rustic Style Potato Salad I am home after a long day but enjoyable day; I have been to Blog Camp in London, and it was just brilliant to meet all my food blogger friends, as well as learn new blogging tips and helpful information about…