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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!
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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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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Don’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 […]
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British Biltong? Bristol Biltong? Mmmmm!
We 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 […]
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Lois Elsden 