Happy VE Day!
In the grocer in Sturminster Newton yesterday I found fresh turmeric. Only that morning my mother was saying she wanted to eat it to help various ailments. So as luck would have it ….
Serves 6
Ingredients
1 aubergine with 1 clove finely slice garlic, olive oil and salt
glug of plain oil (olive, rapeseed …
One of few veg I can guarantee Mats will eat (he is 11), is broccoli. Over enthusiastic about how much he may consume, I had enough leftover for a whole other family lockdown sitting. Turning sadly pale in colour (the broccoli!) in the fridge, this was the answer, this time anyway. And you probably will …
I don’t know about you, but I find that sometimes I think we will have this or that for lunch and then something else is eaten and I end up with unintentional leftovers. Well here I had cold baked potatoes looking wrinkled and lonely and perhaps not fit for much … until … I …
This is from last weekend and despite being in lock down, I feel as busy as before so have not got around to posting this yet. Well I probably am not busy really but I am enjoying being able to focus on all those things I perhaps didn’t before, like painting walls and doors. Sadly …
The other night I went to the Yeovil Literary festival to hear Jason Goodwin talk about the colourful life of his mother, Jocasta Innes. He was engaging to the extent that I ended up buying his book over his mother’s. Perhaps I couldn’t being myself to buy the book of someone who left her …
This is not the first time I have posted sushi on this blog. So it is the same recipe but a reminder. I served it with two salads because the children wouldn’t eat the fennel salad so a cucumber concoction accompanied us too. We compared Waitrose bought sushi with homemade. I noticed a difference in …
I hate to admit that I let our veg garden overflow this year, and not in a good way. It is a bit of a jungle now and within it I found about 10 cucumbers, all a good size. So what better thing to do with them than make soup… it is cool, soothing and …
We had this in North Carolina for the wedding brunch of a cousin. This is not exactly it, but my take on what we had. It is comforting, filling and delicious.
Ingredients
1 cup grits
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp salt
4 cups boiling or very hot water
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
100g butter
200ml milk
Olive oil
1 large bag raw …
This is easy and so delicious. It can be served in a variety of ways but the most satisfying for us is in a bun. Biting into it gives me almost as much pleasure as biting into my first mince pie with brandy butter on December 1st. A knife and fork cannot be used as …
In Dumfriesshire during half term, we walked 3 miles from our hotel on the coast to a little fishing village called Port Patrick where we had lunch in a pub called The Crown excelling in seafood. This recipe was inspired by that. The pub was as traditional as they all used to be, but with …
