Dandelions have featured rather a lot this week.. As well as springing up with abandon on the lawn – I use the term lawn loosely – they have been a hot topic of conversation around the Twitterverse, in the neighbourhood and on the telebox. From dandelion fritters to dandelion root coffee, dandelion and burdock to endless [...]
Archive for the ‘pantry’ Category
Dandelions, Rumpelstiltskin and pots of gold.
Posted in pantry, slow food, Things to make, tagged dandelion petal jelly, dandelions, eat your weeds, marmalade on April 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The gentle art of preservation
Posted in food for the soul, pantry, tagged gardening and cooking with victims of depression, health benefits of red onions, preserve making, red onion marmalade on November 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I think I planted a few too many of these this year and have limited space in my garden shed/veg store. What’s a girl to do when she has a stall at a Christmas Fayre to stock and an overwhelming desire to stay indoors? Red onion marmalade , of course. The health benefits of onions in improving [...]
Boxing Day Chutney
Posted in pantry, tagged Boxing Day chutney on November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Grey days like these are made for a spot of pre - Christmas cooking. A rifle through the larder this morning revealed the ingredients for a delicious Boxing Day chutney. It’s quick, easy and can be whipped up at the last minute, unlike other chutneys, which need a bit of time to mature.But it’s equally good made [...]
Apple Days, chutney and a small homage to Downton Abbey
Posted in orchard, pantry, pudding club, tagged Apple Charlotte, Apple Chutney, Apple Day, Downton Abbey, Downton Pippin, October Half Term activities on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our kitchen has been the site of an enormous apple mountain over the last week or so – which is all very appropriate considering that October 21st was Apple Day, when communities up and down the country celebrate the humble apple. We have but one apple tree of our own at the moment - a highly [...]
Reasons to be cheerful
Posted in drinks, feel-good plants, pantry, tagged elderberry cordial, foraging, Higgledy Garden, how to grow the tallest sunflowers, how to make a sunflower den, sunflowers on September 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The wind’s whipping around the back of the house. Every time I step out of the door it rains…and I mean biblical torrents. I have a ‘to do’ list which looks like a queue for the latest Banksy exhibition and my PC is throwing a strop worthy of Violet Elizabeth Bott. Hence the messy looking [...]
End of term pleasures
Posted in drinks, pantry, tagged lemonade on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shouldn’t the last week of the Summer term be a time for winding down? Not so around here, it seems. The eldest apprentice has been undertaking a bit of impromptu fundraising with his classmates to send some goats to an African farming family. Consequently, he volunteered me for some homemade treats. What’s a Mum to do when [...]
Romeo and Juliet,blackberries and Nigel Slater.
Posted in pantry, tagged blackberries, foraging, Nigel Slater, Weald and Downland Museum on August 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some memories are etched on your mind for ever and for me blackberry picking is one of them. Who can resist the appeal of a few bowls of delicious free food gathered on a sunny afternoon and carried home to turn into rows of jewel coloured jars for the larder? Apparently blackberry picking is a [...]
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down..?
Posted in family time, food for the soul, pantry, tagged mincemeat, rainy day jobs on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Unlike the Carpenters I quite like rainy days – and Mondays. Every Monday is full of possibilities for the week ahead and rainy days give me an excuse to get on with all those indoor jobs on which I can’t waste good weather - days when I could be outside pottering about on the plot. This was Saturday’s job [...]
Apple chutney and Tea with the Bennets.
Posted in out and about, pantry, Uncategorized, tagged Apple Chutney, Lacock, Pride and Prejudice on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well it took a bit longer than two weeks but I have cracked my addiction to Twitter and made progress on my pet projects as well as picked up a few more. I’ve decided that I have to live with the part of me which fills every space with ‘stuff’. I’m just not meant to [...]
Elderberry cordial
Posted in medicine chest and cleaning cupboard, pantry, tagged elderberry cordial, foraging, preserving on August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It took me a long time to discover the delights of preserving. which is a little surprising since my mother and grandmother were prolific bottlers. However I am now a convert. As an antidote to the business of helping out at a holiday club this week – I play Carrie Crooner singing coach and aging [...]
