Winter Beef Braise and Quick Pickled Vegetables – A fabulous winter warmer with a quick 15 minute pickle of kale, parsnips and beetroot with juniper. This beef braise is cooked in the pressure-cooker and is on the table in under an hour, which makes it a handy mid-week dish for all the family. Sarson’s Pickle…
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Preserving the Season – Seedless Blackberry Jam
Preserving the Season – Seedless Blackberry Jam: A delectable taste of the season, this lovely bramble jam is seedless, and is perfect on toast, crumpets and scones as well as in homemade cakes. You can also heat it up to drizzle over ice cream or dollop it on top of baked rice pudding. Hedgerow Harvest Part…
Preserving the Season – Rowan & Apple Jelly
Rowan and Apple Jelly – A deliciously smoky, tangy and jewel-like jelly that goes perfectly with game, lamb, cheese and charcuterie. Made with “free” foraged berries from a tree on the lane opposite our house, and with windfall apples from our orchard. Hedgerow Harvest Part One The red berry tree waved its branches provocatively in…
Quick Sweet Pickled Cucumbers
Quick Pickled Cucumbers: An easy and very quick pickled cucumber recipe, which is ready in 24 to 48 hours. Perfect for that summer glut of small cucumbers. Serve these pickled cucumbers with cheese, charcuterie, sandwiches, smoked fish, hot dogs or burgers. Using your Summer Glut of Cucumbers I can almost sense and smell autumn in the…
Christmas in a Jar – Pickled Shallots
Pickled Shallots with Mixed Peppercorns and Star Anise in Cider Apple Vinegar Today’s recipe is truly Christmas in a Jar – this recipe for Pickled Shallots with Mixed Peppercorns and Star Anise in Cider Apple Vinegar, is my latest preserves creation and is perfect for the festive cheeseboard, or as a gift for friends and family….
A Country Recipe: Winter Salad (Pickle)
English Heirloom Recipe Today’s recipe for “A Country Recipe: Winter Salad (Pickle)” is a bit of a Blue Peter recipe, as here’s one I made earlier! I made a batch of this delicious pickle just over 6 weeks ago, using some of the green tomatoes in the garden, the ones that were never going to ripen….
Duck Egg Victoria Sponge Cake
The Caravan Trail A Victoria sponge cake (or Victoria Sandwich) is a tea time classic and is one of my favourite cakes; the recipe has royal provenance with the original recipe being attributed to Queen Victoria and her love for a “plain sponge cake”. The stalwart of all WI Cake tents, as well as being…
Postcards from Beguiling Sri Lanka & Pol Sambol
A Quick “Teaser” Snapshot of this Magical Country “āyubūvan” The flight was long, but comfortable, and a three-hour stop over in Mumbia offered an opportunity to meet my fellow travellers who were on the same press trip to Sri Lanka with me just two weeks ago; a snapshot of the country’s food and people was…
Bacon, Cheddar and Chive Cream Cheese Dip
with Emma Bridgewater and Market Deli The Six Nations Rugby championship is over for 2016, and as avid England supporter, I’m delighted to say that England won the Grand Slam as well as the overall Six Nations Championship! Yesterday was billed as “Super Saturday” when ALL the final fixtures were played, and what better accompaniment…
Davidstow Festive Cheeseboard Challenge & Spiced Fig Jam
For Christmas and New Year Cheese, my favourite food group…….and, what would Christmas be without a cheeseboard. I make it my duty to serve cheese at any time of the day (or night), whether it be festive or not, and even after a frugal bowl of soup for a light lunch, I try to serve a…
Autumn Still-Life & Shooting Party Chutney (Green Tomato Chutney)
Autumn in Still-Life: Bringing the Autumn Garden into your Home…… A Vintage Recipe: Shooting Party Chutney I am not a lover of contrived arrangements, I prefer to admire my flowers in the garden and not in the vase, although, I do appreciate bouquets of flowers when given to me, what woman doesn’t! But, I do…
A Seasonal Condiment: Autumnal Corn Salsa
A Seasonal Condiment: Autumnal Corn Salsa Welcome to my third guest post, a few close friends have helped me out whilst I am in Canada, and have written bespoke posts and created special recipes for all my readers! Today’s guest writer is none other than my co-host for Tea Time Treats, Janie from the Hedgecombers. Janie…
The Alchemy of Fruit & Sugar: One Punnet Raspberry Jam
The Alchemy of Fruit & Sugar: One Punnet Raspberry Jam There is an alchemy when fruit and sugar are mixed together and boiled; the fruit is preserved, the flavour is intensified and the colour becomes jewel-like and vibrant…….and then in the midst of winter, a jar of ruby-red raspberry jam can be taken down from the…
Rhubarb & Custard Muffins with Hazelnut Crunch Crumble Topping
Rhubarb & Custard Muffins with Hazelnut Crunch Crumble Topping for The Great British Rhubarb Recipe Round-Up Fish & Chips, Blackberry & Apple, Strawberries & Cream, Sausage & Mash, Steak & Chips, Liver & Onions, Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding and Rhubarb & Custard.…….all of these recipes and ingredients are marriages made in heaven, and of…
Making an Easy Enchilada Sauce in under a Minute! (Easy Enchilada Sauce Recipe)
Making an Easy Enchilada Sauce in under a Minute! (Easy Enchilada Sauce Recipe) Today’s recipe is for Easy Enchilada Sauce – and I’m chuffed to dried chillies with the recipe, as it delivers everything I am looking for in a spicy sauce – it’s easy, quick, tasty and fulfils my desire for Mexican fare! I know…
