“Soup is cuisine’s kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o’clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.” Louis P. De Gouy, The Soup Book (1949) The vibrant bright orange colour of this silky soup has got to be enough to put a smile [...]
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After Christmas I made a promise to myself that I would resist buying more cookery book until I had sorted and organised the rather mammoth collection I already own. Well, a couple of weeks back I broke that promise. How could I resist Jose Pizarro’s stunning book, Seasonal Spanish Food? Pizarro’s debut explores the regions [...]
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Your branches are a pomegranate orchard with all precious fruits, henna and roses saffron and spikenard, cassia, cinnamon with frankincense trees, myrrh and aloes all perfect spices … Eat, my friend, drink – lover be drunk with love (The Song of Songs) It’s time again for the Daring Bakers challenge. This month’s challenge is brought to [...]
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When I got a big bag of the above strange looking tubers in my weekly vegetable box from Riverford Stockly the immediate response from my mum was “What on Earth are they?” Luckily I recognised them but I guess lots of people wouldn’t, they’re not an overly common sight here. They are Jerusalem artichokes, a vegetable I’d never [...]
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What more could you want to do on a cold autumnal day than potter around the kitchen making warming, seasonal delights? Sounds like a perfect start to the day for me, then I’d go out for a brisk walk with my Irish Setter before coming home to sample the goods, now nothing can beat that, [...]
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Yay it’s Daring Bakers time again! Not only was this month different because it’s the first savoury challenge I’ve completed as a Daring Baker but the challenge was also partly gluten free and vegan. It had been hosted by Natalie from Gluten A Go Go, and co-host Shel, of Musings From the Fishbowl neither of which are [...]
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Soup is the ultimate comfort food isn’t it – soothing, warming and easy to eat. It’s also a great way to use up leftovers and excess food too. So when feeling under the weather (a horrid chest infection) and having some left over vegetables, what else can one do but make and eat vast quantities [...]
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During my early teenage years my family and I spent several holidays in the Sunshine State of Florida, mainly in the Florida Keys, yes we did Disney too but the Keys offered so much more for us – a chance to see the ‘real’ Florida, eat well and relax. One of my favourite foods to [...]
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Inspired by Eva and Linda I decided to support the Colour Orange Campaign by discussing it here on my blog. The Colour Orange Campaign was initiated by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot and aims to highlight the violations of the human rights in China on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing August 2008. They are aiming to show disatisfaction about the [...]
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What with all the chaos of the previous couple of weeks I think it’s taken its toll on my body and now I’ve developed a chest infection. I’m loathe to go straight down the pharmacological route, other than paracetamol to keep fever at bay. I’d rather just stick to food alternatives – a treatment plan [...]
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Heinz Classic Tomato Soup was always one of my ultimate childhood comfort foods when I was feeling poorly. It probably wasn’t so much the soup but the accompaniments, staying in my pyjamas, lying on the sofa being given steaming hot soup; so comforting. Eating it made me feel that I’d been enclosed in a cocoon [...]
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