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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!
English conversation… topic… English puds!
Mmm, let’s talk about apple and plum pie… … and we’ll chat about Rose’s bread and butter pudding..,.…and let’s converse about Judith’s treacle tart!
MoreGreen tomato mincemeat… the results!
I had never thought of using green tomatoes to make mincemeat, but here it is! I adjusted the recipe, adding more spice than suggested and cooking it for ages and ages and ages in a slow oven. it went thicker and darker, and lovelier. I stirred in some dark rum before I bottled it and […]
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Green tomato mincemeat
I mentioned the other day that we still had a lot of tomatoes, but they were green… and how I have pounds of green tomato chutney left from last year! Then I found a recipe for green tomato mincemeat; here it is so far, tomatoes, apples, dried fruit, candied peel, brown sugar and cider vinegar… […]
MoreLast crop…
We tidied the garden yesterday and stripped the different plants of their fruit, tomatoes and beans here… not all of them in the peak of condition, but they won’t be wasted! Even those which are spoiled will be put in the compost, ready to provide us with some nice organic material for the raised beds […]
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Lois Elsden 