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!

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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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Herby

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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Shy sloes

I’m not a big fan of sweet drinks or liqueurs, but one thing I do like… I’m not sure I know anyone who doesn’t like it, is sloe gin. Sloes are the fruit of the wild blackthorn,  a very prickly small tree; they are extremely sour and bitter, if you eat one raw your face […]

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