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!

I have bought the prunes and the poppy seeds

Food by LoisDecember 16, 2013

Mock Goose? But why?

Food by LoisDecember 14, 2013

Monica’s gingerbread

Food by LoisDecember 13, 2013

Food by LoisDecember 12, 2013December 16, 2013

Makowiec – poppy seed and apple cake

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 […]

Burnt offerings…

Food by LoisDecember 11, 2013

Food by LoisDecember 9, 2013December 9, 2013

Party food!

In 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, […]

Lunchtime…

Food by LoisDecember 8, 2013

Jammy

Food by LoisDecember 6, 2013December 4, 2013

Food by LoisDecember 5, 2013December 2, 2013

Kozí Vršok… a very fine cheese!

What a very fine cheese! it is Slovakian and is a goat’s cheese and I got it at the BBC Good Food Show

Food by LoisDecember 4, 2013

Look what’s in my bag!

I 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 […]