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Food
Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!
Lincoln salad
I remember salad from my childhood as lettuce leaves, slices or quarters of tomato, whole spring onions, slices of cucumber, sometimes salad cress or watercress, cooked beetroot in malt vinegar, radishes topped and tailed, hard-boiled eggs sliced, potato salad made with salad cream… It would be served with cold meat, and it would be the […]
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Ginger cake
I love old recipes, handwritten in cookery books; I have some of my mum’s books with odd things jotted down from her… but this is from someone I don’t know. Maybe it is the mother of a friend, maybe it is a friend of hers… or maybe she bought it in a second-hand shop or […]
MoreWhat is the Dutch for yummy?
We had a wonderful holiday with our dear Dutch friends; we have been lucky to visit them every year for the last however long, plus seeing them over here in the inbetweenwhiles! Quite a few traditions have arisen about our stay with them, a barbecue, some trips out, lovely walks taking lots of photos, pancakes […]
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Dining with friends…
It looks so beautiful… it tasted so wonderful.. ostrich on scrambled egg… yes, scrambled egg… I can’t remember a better meal! – oh and this was just the starter! I actually didn’t eat this – but my dining companions did! Yes, this is eating out in a small village in the Netherlands with dear friends!
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Lois Elsden 