New Year

Recipes for The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Lavender and Lovage 2014 Calendar of Food, Ingredients and Recipes

New Year Cocktails, Mocktails and Christmas Leftovers! Sugar Plum Fairy Cocktail

Happy New Year! Twelve Months of Recipes – “The Lavender & Lovage Calendar 2013”

Christmas Jumper Day and a Birthday Girl’s Festive Table Settings for a Singleton’s Flat!

High Tea with Ham and Eggs and Marmalade Glazed Ham/Gammon Recipe

Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe)

5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipes: Coronation Potato Salad and Low-Fat Pan-Fried Garlic Hake Fillets

La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year

Day Four on the Advent Calendar: Simple and in Season ~ December ~

Festive Fish on Friday: Clementine and Honey Roast Salmon Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe

Single Malt Whisky and a Traditional Tea Time Dundee Cake for New Year

Making Winter, Baking with Mum and Wee Whisky Doused Hogmanay Dundee Cakes

Croeso! 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 North Wales in an old converted Schoolhouse on the edge of Snowdonia National Park. 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…