Recipes and food
Advent: 10th December – Limoncello
Every year at Christmas I always come up with one scheme or another to make something a bit different to eat or drink. Last year it was raspberry gin and pickled pears. This year I stumbled across the recipe for Limoncello via the Domestic Sluttery Blog and though that I would give it a go.…
Read MoreAdvent Blog: 4th December
Today has been very cold and when you sit at a desk in an old house with out much heating you need a bit of warming up! Cue a visit to the fridge to gather up all the slightly tired looking veggies to turn them into a lovely soup. This is my homemade minestrone. To…
Read MoreIn a pickle
They may not be the most sociable things but I just LOVE pickled onions! And home made ones are the best. So two nights ago I tucked myself up in front of the wood burner with a couple of bags of small onions and a sharp knife and set about my first pickles of the…
Read MoreCelebration cup cakes
Our lovely neighbours have just had their second baby – a sweet little boy. So my daughter made them some cup cakes to celebrate! We presented them on a vintage cake stand which was one of my recent auction finds!
Read MoreComfort food
Well after sticking its head above the parapet yesterday, today the sun has now deserted us. Once again it has been chilly, grey and rather miserable – so to cheer us up I’ve taken “time out breaks” from working on the computer to rustle up some comfort food in the kitchen! For elevenses we had…
Read MoreThe first asparagus of Spring
A couple of days ago husband Geoff returned from his lunchtime bike ride (zero food miles!) with a small rucksack full of the first asparagus of the Spring bought from Portwood Asparagus in Great Ellingham, Norfolk. With the exception of my son Tom, we all love asparagus in our household and look forward to the…
Read MoreThe first wet garlic of Spring
While we were shopping on Saturday I spotted the first wet garlic of the spring on one of the stalls on Norwich market. For the uninitiated, wet or green garlic is the first fresh harvest of the season and it is called “wet” because it has not been hung up to dry so does not…
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