Family Fish and Pasta on Friday: Creamy Salmon and Orange Pasta with Mixed Herbs Recipe Christmas arrived early the other day, a fabulous box of fresh fish arrived, as you may remember from last week’s Fish on Friday post – Easy Peasy Fish on Friday Recipe: Family Friendly Fabulous Fish Pie, and along with my fish box…
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November is Happy Birthday for Tea Time Treats: Salted Caramel and Chocolate Fudge Birthday Cake Recipe
November is Happy Birthday for Tea Time Treats: Salted Caramel and Chocolate Fudge Birthday Cake Recipe Can you believe it, ONE whole year has flown by in a flurry of cakes, pies, tarts, fairy cakes, jam, bread, brioche, pastries, buttercream, parkin, chocolate, custard, biscuits, cookies, fruit, cherries, icing, marzipan, scones, pancakes, berries and booze! Yes, it…
Sunday Lunch: Roast Pumpkin Salad with Pancetta, Grana Padano and Pumpkin Seeds
Sunday Lunch: Roast Pumpkin Salad with Pancetta, Grana Padano and Pumpkin Seeds I awoke to a heavy white frost today with flocks of iridescent starlings on the lawn…….my trip to the hen-house was accompanied by crunching footsteps as I made my way over sparkling white grass, and I could sense the eyes of hungry blackbirds watching my…
Organic October and Autumn Suppers: Bonfire Chilli with Beef, Chocolate and Pumpkin
Organic October and Autumn Suppers: ~ Bonfire Chilli with Beef, Chocolate and Pumpkin ~ Autumn means…….. crisp mornings, misty mornings, crackling leaves, vibrant berries, Old Man’s Beard in tangled hedgerows, apples on damp grass, the smell of wood smoke, bonfires, woolly scarves, boots, red mittens, duffle coats, log fires, glistening dew covered cobwebs, pumpkins, candles, piles of books on the bedside table, crumpets, casseroles, dumplings, steamed puddings, the last rose of summer, fireworks, hot chocolate, fluffy duvets, tartan rugs, fireside suppers, Arran…
Apple Day, Victorian Orchards and Apple & Dorset Blue Vinny Scone Bread Recipe
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 …
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…
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)…
Giveaway: A Fabulous Collection of Retro British Bakeware by Tala
Giveaway: A Fabulous Collection of Retro British Bakeware by Tala I remember baking with my grandmother and mum, in the warmth of an old country kitchen, there were free-range eggs from the farm up the road, flour and raisins, butter and sugar……and an old Tala cook’s measure…..with a myriad of ingredients printed inside…..then when we…
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…
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,…
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes It’s been an exciting day, we have guests, three lovely girls arrived yesterday for a week’s holiday and they have settled in already, and even laid three eggs today……….yes, it’s not my daughter and her two friends (although they are lovely…
