Category Archive: preserving

Super Duper Sloe Gin

Earlier in the year I showed you what to look for when finding your sloe bushes and advised you to hunt them down then ready for the autumn. Well in the words of… Read More

Beech Noyau Recipe

My mother has a rather ancient cake tin with quotes and little paintings ranged around the outside, these are ingrained in my memory now, and whilst in winter I’m comforted by the quote… Read More

Baked Apples and Mulled Wine Merriment

How embarassing… I’ve not written a post for ages and ages! More embarassingly, I’ve promised you all some recipes and then failed to deliver for which I am rather ashamed. So, I’m going… Read More

Easy-Peasy Pickles

For me, it is savoury food that offers the most enjoyment and although I don’t eat “junk” food (not so much in a bid to keep healthy as much as the fact that… Read More

Luxurious Lavender

Oh Lavender ( if I can steal some words from Elzabeth Barrett Browning for a moment, as so many folk often do)  ”how do I love thee? Let me count the ways”. Lavender has made Provence famous (amongst… Read More

An aromatic Elderflower evening

Today has been a gorgeous day and a prime day for cycing, and foraging. Today I did a little ride out to collect some elderflowers in a nearby village where I know there’s… Read More

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