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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!
We all loved the delicious poppy cake Barbara made for us at the English conversation class party; it was nutty and apple-y and mmmm, yummy! Barbara has sent me the recipe, I had to change a couple of words and I haven’t yet made the cake, but a friend gave me some apples, and I […]
MoreIn the foreground are my cousin’s chocolate biscuits, and next to them is my rather lopsided dessert… simplicity itself! layers of fruit, layers of ratafia biscuits, layers of crème fraiche.On the bottom I had a layer of grapes, then after the biscuits and cream a layer of melon cubes, then a layer of kiwi fruit, […]
MoreWhat a very fine cheese! it is Slovakian and is a goat’s cheese and I got it at the BBC Good Food Show
MoreI went shopping today and came back with some lovely beetroot because I had seen a recipe for beef and beetroot… however when I came to read it there were rather a lot of stock cubes used, one rubbed into the beef and then two more added to the casserole… also as well as beetroot […]
MoreWe went to the BBC Good Food show in Birmingham… and there were some lovely things to taste, see, smell, enjoy… but I was amazed, yes amazed at this exhibition of world cheeses I think there must have been thousands of different cheeses there, from all corners of the worldThere were a lot of stalls […]
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Lois Elsden 