Spring
Variations on Hot Cross Buns and Easter Fare
Cranberry and Orange hot cross buns, chocolate Easter cake and Simnel buns
Hot Cross bus are traditionally made to be served on Good Friday. The story goes that the first buns were made by a 14th century monk who then distributed them to the poor on Good Friday. So it really bothers me is to see these sweet and spicy buns on sale at Christmas. The story also goes that Queen…
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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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FUN FOODS for the young in the Easter holidays
Adding preserves for the young
Easter is nearly upon us and with it all the fare of Hot cross buns and Simnel cake and Roast Lamb and not to mention Easter Eggs Beyond these traditional Easter foods there are a whole range of favourite fun foods and platters – with or without preserves -that children can not only enjoy in the holidays and…
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START A KITCHEN GARDEN FROM SCRATCH – FOLLOW IN TOM AND BERYL’s FOOTSTEPS
It is NATIONAL GARDENING WEEK - START SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
This week is National Gardening Week in the UK and there are events taking place all over the country. TOM’s INSPIRATION My memories go back some fifty years ago when Tom Wood, a Yorkshire man by birth (and so proud of it), left the swinging London of the mid-sixties to settle with Beryl in the tiny village…
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BRACE YOURSELF FOR A CHANGE TO TRADITIONAL EASTER FARE
Try sundried tomato butter with your scones and mint chutney with roast lamb
I think of myself as quite a creature of habit and I look forward to many of the seasonal traditions. But this Easter I have decided to break out – well just a tad. It started a couple of weeks ago on Mother’s day when my daughters took me out for a delicious afternoon tea…
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SOW AND GROW – ANOTHER SELF-SUFFICIENCY MOMENT
Kitchen garden, patio or window sill -now is the time to sow.
I can just feel another self-sufficiency moment coming on. Last week I baked some fabulous ciabatta bread; the first such bake for a very long time. Fabulous. This week I am sowing some herb and vegetable seeds. Whether your gardening arrangements be – kitchen garden, patio or windowsill now is the time. Herbs are a…
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Jam Jam Jam Jam Jam!
Did I mention... jam?
I have been prompted into these pouring out USES FOR JAM by Jackie Kaines Lang’s suggestion that after all the time spent over a preserving pan, jars may just be lurking at the back of cupboards. What a thought! There are so many and so here are mine. Do you have any to add? HERE…
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