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 One of my favourite things about being a food blogger is occasionally getting to try out new products as they come on the market.  I'm totally okay with that!  The more the merrier.  This week I was sent some lovely fresh Spring...

I reckon the courgette has to be about one of the easiest vegetables to grow. It practically grows like a weed, providing you with an abundant supply during August. It's a very versatile cookery ingredient and the trick is to keep up with it, and t...

You may remember me mentioning earlier this season how horribly my rhubarb was doing . . . for the second year in a row no less . . . and we'd very generously fed it with manure last autumn too . . . The Toddster wanted to get rid of the plants and...

I just love Salads, as you probably all know by now. The Toddster . . . not so much. I am always trying to invent new ways to "do" salad in order to keep him interested.He will probably never "love" salad . . . but I think that at least if I keep...

I somehow found myself with an abundance of summer plums this week. I had been sent some in my veggie box three weeks in a row . . . and we just hadn't gotten many eaten, and so I decided that I wanted to use them up pronto, before they went off.I d...

When I am wanting a hearty dessert using fresh fruit, this has become my go-to cookbook. It's filled with fabulous recipes for everything from warm berry buckles and crumbly crisps to beautifully fruited bread puddings. It's filled with fabulous id...

As you know I am a big fan of potatoes! I love them in any way shape or form. A day without eating a potato is a day in which something is missing for me. No Carb or low carb doesn't work for me!The other day I saw these pretty Apache potatoes in...

One of the problems of having as many cookbooks as I have, and subscribing to as many cookery magazines as I do . . . is that you oft-times see a recipe that you want to try and then when you have the ingredients all in to do it . . . you can't find...

One thing that I love most about summer is the profusion of locally grown fresh vegetables. Nothing tastes better than vegetables you have either grown yourself, or that have been grown very close to home and eaten very soon after picking!!I like to...

I guess by all accounts, we've had a ton of rain over here in the UK during the two weeks we were away!! This is well evidenced by the profusion of slugs and snails in our garden completely feasting on my herbs and fruit!Bwaa ha ha haaaa!!! Time to...

We may not be having dry weather here at the moment . . . and it's not really been warm . . . it's probably the nicest weather for Wimbleton . . . but that hasn't stopped the Strawberries from ripening . . . and it hasn't stopped me from indulging...

Source: tinywhitedaisies.tumblr.com via Marie on PinterestI just adore Strawberries! I think they are one of my favourites of all of the late spring/summer fruits! And . . . like I have said before, there is nothing on earth quite as delicious as a...

I have always had a great fondness for salads of any kind. Todd, not so much . . . he has always thought salads boring . . . that is until I came into his life!!  My salads are anything but boring!!  (Even he would agree to that!)  An...

 It's one of my favourite flavour seasons of the year now . . . Aspagarus season! The shops are slowly beginning to stock fresh British Asparagus, which I believe is the most delicious tasting asparagus in the world!! Of course there is asp...

 I just love Rhubarb Season and our rhubarb plants are going crazy at the moment!  I am love, love, LOVING it! I picked up some Spanish strawberries today.  (I know naughty me.)  They looked really, really good though and min...

Well, folks, what with having an early spring and such a lovely March, quite a bit of the rhubarb in our garden is ready to begin harvesting now. Not bundles and bundles of it, but enough for me to indulge in a few rhubarb treats.I love rhubarb seas...

This is the cookery book I cut my teeth on, way back in the olden days as a young Bride. I was only 19, not all that experienced . . . and this was pretty much my cookery bible. Everything you needed to know about baking cakes, pies, cookies, quic...