The Larder Diaries …… Roast Onion and Garlic Soup with Chorizo, Lentil and Potato Garnish
Warming winter soups are just what we need in the cold months of winter. Try this superb onion and garlic soup.
Simple Salmon Supper.
Fast food that’s big on taste is a great option for after work meals. Try this simple salmon supper.
Cherry Picking
It is the time of year here in France that our thoughts turn to harvesting the fruit from our gardens. I have a large cherry tree, two plum trees and more pear trees than I care to count. This weekend, it was the cherries that were gathered in, and despite the variable weather, I was…
Our Daily Bread
For those who may not know, Elizabeth Winkler, Editor of Living Earth magazine has a blog entitled Real Food Lover. (See blogroll) She is hosting a competition about (not unsurprisingly) real food. As I understand the rules of engagement, she wants us budding competitors to blog about a comparison between “The Real Thing” and a commercially…
Wanted – Dead or Alive: Crab for Supper.
The British have a certain way with words. We find it difficult to be too direct – a fine asset in some situations. There are however, times when we simply fail to say what we mean. Take dressed crab for instance. My immediate vision is, admittedly somewhat bizarre – say, a cheeky little black dress,…
Not My Aunty Mary’s Soup!
That was the comment hurled at me when I presented my youngest daughter with this soup. Let me explain. My Aunt (Mary) lives on the side of a windswept hill in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery. – simply, and diplomatically, not the most desirable of places – not the type of place where…
Confit of Tomato Soup.
Apologies for the odd sounding title, but it’s the best thing describes this soup. I have seen recipes a plenty for roasted tomato soup, but the tomatoes in this were gently “poached” in a fruity olive oil before the other ingredients were added. It is a big flavoured soup, so its not for the faint…
How Many Tomatoes Can a Haddock Grow?
There is no easy answer to this question I feel. Suffice to say like numerous other fellow foodies, I have them in abundance, and, try as I might, there are very few takers in these parts for gift baskets of the red orbs. Save the odd photo shoot or two, they placidly wait to be…
Strawberry and Rosewater Ice Cream.
Summer is leaving us slowly here…………..the horse chestnut in the garden is already shedding its huge leaves, and the days are getting gradually shorter. In truth, the weather has disappointed this year.There have been long hot dreamy days, but they have been cruelly disrupted by heavy rains, strong winds and even the odd mild tornado.…
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