Grow At Home
Wishing you luck with your Fire in the Kitchen cookery book!
One of our regular bloggers, Madeleine Cardozo has just released a new cookery book. As well as an authority on growing veg, Madeleine is a trained chef. Our readers have...
Fancy some foraging? Bramble is the best free food...
Blackberry or bramble... Love them or hate them? In my garden they are a BIG nuisance, terribly invasive they've overtaken the edges of the garden and each year they creep...
Is this pudding the best thing about summer?
Summer Pudding or Summer Fruit Pudding is a British dessert traditionally made of sliced white bread, layered in a deep bowl with fruit and fruit juice. The first reference to...
Fluffy, melt in the mouth potato scones for dinner anyone?
Potato related cookery is the order of the day starting with these light and fluffy Potato Scones. This potato recipe is perfect for breakfast with a nice fried egg and...
Aaaaaaaargh! Recipe for too many courgettes!
Dear Deidre, Recipe suggestion please! I have too many courgettes! I mean so many that even my neighbours pretend to be out when I stagger up to their drive under...
A delicious way to use a glut of fruit or windfall apples...
If you have windfall apples this is the recipe for you. However, this tart can also be made with apples, pears, plums, raspberries, strawberries..... or a mix of fruits. It...
Delicious Green Tomato recipe - Green Tomato & Apple Chutney
This green tomato recipe is taken from Plot to Pot by Madeleine Cardozo and is supposed to be made in late September. Ideal when the summer has run out and...
Easy Autumn recipe - delicious Autumn Apple Biscuits
Anyone for apple biscuits? From glorious weather, to weather that you can hardly stand up in because the wind has boon blowing so hard. These two extremes are a complete...
Autumn Tasks - how to cook pumpkin seeds and how to store apples
If you want to know if your pumpkin is rips check out this blog How to Harvest Pumpkins But if you are already there and have harvested we are really hoping...
Madeline's Corner: Pickled Pears & brutal Tomato care!
I need to be out harvesting potatoes. I don’t know about you though, but for me it has been a blustery week. I have been forcing myself to go out...