Sauces
GREEN THOUGHTS FOR ST PATRICK’S DAY
An Irish Moment
Happy St Patrick’s Day My stomach often cries out to me ‘I just want something green’ and whether it comes as a preserve or as a fresh adjunct on a plate, there is a huge array of green foods from which to choose. Green foods somehow radiate health, often fresh and with nutritious and wholesome…
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THE HORSERADISH DILEMMA – TO PRESERVE OR NOT TO PRESERVE
A Shakespeare moment
I am just having a Shakespeare moment. I love horseradish. It seems you either love it or loathe it. I am a marmite person too. So I was rather disappointed to find that my aunt barely mentions this fulsome root vegetable in Let’s Preserve It. Dried horseradish, horseradish and beetroot relish and horseradish and tomato…
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BRIGHT AND JOLLY TOMATO – FRUIT OR VEGETABLE
The All Singing All Dancing Preserve
I have tomato plant is just outside my kitchen door. This is not so much for the fruit as for the wonderful waft from the foliage that hits me every time I saunter out. No matter that I only have a few green tomatoes on my plant, this year! A FRUIT Yes, indeed it is a…
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THE GREAT PESTO GENOVASE
How to make it and the many ways to enjoy it
ANOTHER GREAT ITALIAN GEM Those of us from the baby boom generation, raised in the post war years of austerity in the fifties and sixties were barely aware of other than English food. Dishes of other cuisines, say Chinese or Greek or Mexican, were never seen at home. My mother could knock up a great curry but otherwise…
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