Recipes
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Kale Recipe
Kale is everywhere at the moment. It’s delicious when cooked right and a perfect addition to salads, pasta, mashed potato, eggs, eaten by itself and of course traditionally in minestrone soup. Growing kale in the garden is really beautiful with its curly leaves and beautiful green and purple colours. Being part of the cabbage family […]
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Beautiful Chestnut Recipe
Chestnuts are a very special nut for many reasons. 1. They’re only available fresh in autumn and winter. 2. They’re very delicate in taste and mmmmm, delicious. 3. You’ll impress all your friends by cooking with them! Roasted on the fire, poached, in a stuffing, sweet or savory… I’ve said it before… these are a […]
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Easter Hot Cross Bun Recipe
The best hot cross buns are homemade hot cross buns, because you can eat them straight from the oven with lashings of butter… and you can make them anytime of the year… well you can, that’s just the way it goes in my home! I like to give them as presents to friends in pretty […]
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The Best French Toast Recipe
French Toast is an oldie but a goodie, and one that I love to make as healthy-ish as possible… You can use any old fruit you have hanging around. My fave stewed fruit has to be plums – their tart, rosy deliciousness, paired with natural yoghurt; they have to be the perfect accomplices to the […]
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Olive Harvest Time
Olives are delicious! There are so many different sizes, colours, and shapes, all with unique textures and tastes depending on their variety and the pickling technique used. Used in pasta, salads, casseroles, roasts or on their own they are precious and deserve our full attention and love when you have them in your home. The […]