With a glut of oranges (read over flowing fruit bowl) and a rapidly depleting store of marmalade I felt the urgent need to get preserving. Image courtesy of Google Images. I love preserving, it’s a very cathartic, soothing activity. Regular readers will have come to understand just how much I love preserving but for those [...]
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There is no escaping the fact that autumn is well and truly upon us. Mornings are crisp and fresh, with your breath misting in the early air and the nights are drawing in earlier and earlier, creeping in some days soon after lunch, or so it seems. Now this is all well and good if [...]
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It could be argued that when one is making preserves the kitchen is always scented but add flowers to the mix and you really do get the full head on hit of The Scented Kitchen. The Scented Kitchen: Cooking With Flowers (Francis Bissell) is a very inspiring book to have in your cookery book collection, but [...]
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When I was a young girl if ever I was feeling poorly hot Ribena was the order of the day, it never failed to make me feel better. Now I’m sure the high vitamin C content helped a little but for the most part I dare say it was just that that cup of hot [...]
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Autumn (also known as Fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in late March (southern hemisphere) or late September (northern hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in [...]
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens Robert Browning A few days back I received an email from the company who arrange most of the product reviews I do (such as this one and this one) saying that they have a new client Kerrymaid and to get things started [...]
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I’d almost forgotten about the joys of fresh pesto. Basil from the garden, beautiful fresh Italian organic olive oil and top notch Parmigiano cheese, combined with some rich nuts and you’re in pesto heaven. I forget about the classics of pasta and pesto, bread dipped in pesto etc etc, during the cooler months but once [...]
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Nothing quite screams Domestic Goddess (or even Kitchen Goddess, lol) like home made preserves does it? Maybe home made cheese might but the sight of neatly labelled jars of home made jam does it for me This is the best jam to start with as it doesn’t need any testing or temperature taking or indeed [...]
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You know something good is happening in the kitchen when you you’re walking down the garden path and the smell makes your mouth water as it wafts by; or at least that’s what my mum said when she entered the house the other afternoon; what prompted this? The smell of Seville Orange Marmalade Jelly bubbling [...]
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