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!

Cutlet bats and trussing a fish

Food by LoisAugust 11, 2015

The proof of the cake!

Food by LoisAugust 9, 2015

Food by LoisAugust 7, 2015August 7, 2015

Have some Madeira!

The first challenge of this year’s Great British Bake-off was to make a Madeira cake… it is something I haven’t eaten, probably since I was a child and I know I have never made one before… so I accepted the challenge, took out my Be-Ro recipe book, and set to. I mentioned a couple of days […]

Madeira cake

Food by LoisAugust 5, 2015August 6, 2015

The elusive recipe for tomates farcies

Food by LoisAugust 3, 2015

Clotted cream yoghurt update!

Food by LoisAugust 1, 2015

Toasted cheese

Food by LoisJuly 29, 2015July 30, 2015

Celebrity Masterchef 2015

Food by LoisJuly 28, 2015

I love courgettes!

Food by LoisJuly 24, 2015March 31, 2018

Food by LoisJuly 23, 2015November 29, 2015

Mad on salads!

I just really like salads – and like experimenting to find strange combinations of fruit and vegetables which work together. You can’t see, but lurking here are some lovely new broad beans, just cooked for a few minutes in salted water; they are absolutely my favourite bean. There are mixed leaves, sliced onion, a few […]