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!

Food by Lois

Beautiful beans!

We have a very good greengrocer in town who often sells unusual fruit and vegetables. One of my most favourite vegetables is the broad bean and although we grew some this year we didn’t manage to grow very many, and delicious though they ere they were very small. I saw these beautiful pods in the […]

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Harvest!

 This is just this morning’s harvest… and doesn’t include the cabbage, runner beans and kale we picked later. The apples are russets, and there are cherry and little plum tomatoes.

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Hedgerow harvest

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 […]

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