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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… […]
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Lois Elsden 