If you are very fortunate, you, or maybe a neighbour, will have a Brown Turkey Fig in the garden. We do, and we always get a fabulous crop of huge, luscious figs in July or August. Our fig tree is a sport of one which has regularly been doing the rounds in our part of…
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Haute Cuisine in Covid Lockdown number two?
Ok, just wondering if we shall eat as well this time round as we did in the Spring of 2020 during the first Covid -19 lockdown in England Then I had all the family at home working in their high-powered international jobs. I was utterly exhausted having to provide three square meals a day, all…
Twinkle, twinkle little star…..Elderflower Cordial to make in May
Right now, at the end of May in South East England, is the time to go and pick a large, double handful of just opened elderflower heads, with which to make the ridiculously easy, but exquisitely delicious Elderflower Cordial. All you need are a few lemons and oranges, around a kilo of granulated sugar, and…
Homemade Baked Beans, and how to feed the family very cheaply
Still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and fast running out of funds, let alone inspiration, with which to provide two square meals a day to six fully grown homeworkers, I thought I would see if I could make my own baked beans. Only criteria being that they must taste as least as good…
Where have all the flour and yeast gone? Breadmaking at home has now gone viral!
Even at the very start of the Covid-19 lockdown, some hazily distant thirty days ago, all the flour and yeast had vanished from the supermarket shelves. Along with loo rolls, pasta and tinned tomatoes. Now those last three store-cupboard staples are starting to make fleeting guest appearances in our shops, and can be snapped up…
