How to Make It
Welcome Quirky Pineapple
Pineapple Relish - A quick and easy accompaniment to baked ham, cold meats or hotdogs
Welcome, welcome O Pineapple! Your season is here. How can you have too much of this quirky looking, all singing all dancing, multi purpose, vitamin C packed fruit? It is delicious raw but do not forget to count the leaves at the outset *see ritual below. Cut in round slices or sliced from top…
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START A KITCHEN GARDEN FROM SCRATCH – FOLLOW IN TOM AND BERYL’s FOOTSTEPS
It is NATIONAL GARDENING WEEK - START SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
This week is National Gardening Week in the UK and there are events taking place all over the country. TOM’s INSPIRATION My memories go back some fifty years ago when Tom Wood, a Yorkshire man by birth (and so proud of it), left the swinging London of the mid-sixties to settle with Beryl in the tiny village…
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BRACE YOURSELF FOR A CHANGE TO TRADITIONAL EASTER FARE
Try sundried tomato butter with your scones and mint chutney with roast lamb
I think of myself as quite a creature of habit and I look forward to many of the seasonal traditions. But this Easter I have decided to break out – well just a tad. It started a couple of weeks ago on Mother’s day when my daughters took me out for a delicious afternoon tea…
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SOUTHERN INDIAN FISH DISH WITH A FABULOUS CHUTNEY
With coconuts to start the Spring
This week I have invited Preti, the daughter of Meera Taneja, to share one of her mother’s fish curry dishes together with a fabulous coconut chutney. Both recipes are from Southern India. I know that my aunt, Beryl, who was very fond of curries, (and I have great memories of the aromas coming from pans on…
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SOW AND GROW – ANOTHER SELF-SUFFICIENCY MOMENT
Kitchen garden, patio or window sill -now is the time to sow.
I can just feel another self-sufficiency moment coming on. Last week I baked some fabulous ciabatta bread; the first such bake for a very long time. Fabulous. This week I am sowing some herb and vegetable seeds. Whether your gardening arrangements be – kitchen garden, patio or windowsill now is the time. Herbs are a…
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TRIPLE PEEL – THE CROQUET PLAYERS MARMALADE
A trip to Fortnums and Masons Food Department to hand in my Dalemain competition entry
WHEN MARMALADE MEETS CROQUET This is the l time of year when marmalade, which I consider to be the best preserve of all, meets the game of croquet sometimes referred to as the king of games or the queen of sports in the TRIPLE PEEL MARMALADE – The best preserve of all Probably more…
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RHUBARB, RHUBARB, RHUBARB with calves liver
The early forced rhubarb has arrived from the Rhubarb Triangle in the UK markets
No, I am not auditioning to go on the stage but just delighted to see the early forced rhubarb has now arrived in the markets. The forced crop is mainly cultivated in the Rhubarb triangle in the UK. It has a special flavour and pale pink colour and is more tender than the outside variety…
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THE WORLD’S ORIGINAL DALEMAIN MARMALADE AWARDS
With a special invitation to those living in the North of England
Now to the best competition in the preserves calendar. This week I am delighted to feature the Tenth Year of the Dalemain Marmalade Awards What makes this the fun part of making preserves is that all are invited to submit their homemade marmalade to fit a list of categories. There is also a label competition…
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ESSENTIAL RESOLUTIONS FOR YOUR 2015 PRESERVES LARDER
And to kick start your year, why not attend a marmalade making class
A very Happy New Year to you all and with those wishes come some essential new year resolutions for a super 2015 preserves larder PRESERVE MORE whether it be jams or marmalades, dried fruits or herbs, flavoured oils or vinegars, mincemeats or jellies, pickles or curds, chutneys or sauces there is…
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CHESTNUT THOUGHTS, CHESTNUT JAM AND NAT KING COLE
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Chestnuts are so much part of Christmas fare – chestnuts as a stuffing, whole chestnuts , chestnut jam spread on toast or used as a puree added to ice cream or cream, mixed with puddings or made into a chestnut tart . So it is all very well for Nat King Cole to entice…
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