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!

Kippers

Food by LoisOctober 10, 2014

Food by LoisOctober 10, 2014October 9, 2014

Oh what a funny thing!

This is a romanesco cauliflower… I had one delivered in my Riverford Organics veg box yesterday… apparently it is a fractal… or it is fractal in shape (not quite sure of this technical term!) I don’t exactly understand what it means, according to Wikipedia it is ” a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits […]

Not quite Peshwari lamb

Food by LoisOctober 8, 2014

English tea

Food by LoisOctober 6, 2014

Food by LoisOctober 4, 2014September 13, 2018

Late summer English tomato soup

We had a mighty crop of tomatoes late on in the summer, and although they did ripen and tasted good, they are rather sour because they did not get the full heat of a summer sun. So making them into soup ended up with a very good flavoured soup, but very, very acid. The second […]

Stuffed pointy peppers

Food by LoisOctober 4, 2014

My sister’s favourite jam as made by Aunty Audrey

Food by LoisOctober 3, 2014

Food by LoisOctober 2, 2014

Tomatoes drying

I mentioned yesterday that I was going to try drying some of my abundant harvest of tomatoes… So far so good! After eight hours in the drier they are still quite moist but definitely very flavoursome! I’m going to attack the rest of the ripe ones and hope the greens one will ripen… I have […]

Drying tomatoes

Food by LoisOctober 1, 2014

Feeling cheesy!

At the Weston Food Festival, I couldn’t resist tasting then buying some delicious cheeses. There were lots of different cheese producers but the one which particularly caught my eye was the Somerset Cheese Company. Although their stand was really busy, the people were really friendly and pleasant to everyone, even those who were just going round […]