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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 went out looking for sloes yesterday to make sloe gin… we found some sloes but we also found hips and haws and blackberries. I have a fancy to make a sort of Cumberland sauce for Christmas using the haws… I’ll let you know how that works out! I want to try and make a […]
MoreDon’t they look wonderful? A selection of herbs that I am going to conserve using my new toy; from the bottom in a clockwise direction apple mint, mint, curry plant, marjoram, rosemary, basil, thyme. And here is my new toy – a slightly crooked, slightly fuzzy photo, I was very excited! Here we are, a […]
MoreWe went to the Weston-super-Mare Food Festival at the weekend and a stall we were attracted to was the one run by this company. I like biltong, it is South African and air-dried strips of spiced beef (and can be other meats) and chewy and delicious. I’ve tried lots of different ones, and so far […]
MoreThis was what I cooked my husband for his birthday, the first time we celebrated it together… I should have saved this picture for his birthday, shouldn’t I, but I couldn’t resist!!
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Lois Elsden 