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

Rose petal jam

Some roses smell so divine they seem almost edible… and of course they are. I’m not sure what flavour you’d get munching on a bud, but putting a few delicate smelling petals in a jar of caster sugar perfumes it ready for all sorts of recipes… or you could make some rose petal jam. Here’s […]

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Spirtle

 A spurtle and porridge… can you guess what you might use the spurtle for? Yes, stirring the porridge! I foolishly didn’t think to ask which was the stirring end, so for many years I was in fact stirring upside-down… I don’t think it affected the taste of the porridge! In case you’re wondering, the holding […]

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Home grown!

The garden is doing brilliantly this year and here is a nice little salad I put together, all home-grown except the feta cheese! Spinach, mint, dill, peas, purple mange-tout, baby broad-beans, marjoram and dressed with sea salt and coarse ground black pepper and chilli flakes, strawberries and raspberries to finish… the taste of summer!  

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