Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
Sponsored Post To keep spiralling Christmas costs down I decided to make home made gifts for the boys’ teachers this year. A couple of prettily packaged jars of preserves are usually warmly received – especially if they go well with the cheese and cold meats that we scoff our way through over the holidays. I [...]
I got a rather large delivery of Sweet Eve strawberries recently – a new variety that’s been developed by a British farmer who wanted a fruit with a sweeter, fuller flavour. The first thing that struck me was how flawless they looked – scarlet red with taut glossy skin. The aroma is super sweet and [...]
If you fancy getting into jam and chutney making you’re going to need a decent recipe book. Vivien Lloyd’s First Preserves is a fantastic no-nonsense guide to finding your feet in the world of preserving and i’ve got a signed copy to give away to one lucky reader. HOW TO ENTER… Fill in the Rafflecopter [...]
Making jams, marmalades, jellies and chutneys has become something of a passion of mine since my mum showed me how to do it two years ago. I’m lucky that my teacher is a former WI preserves judge, but i’d say the next best thing if you’re looking to get jamming is fellow WI trained judge [...]
I’d never really understood the fuss about Seville Oranges… why would they taste any different from the marmalade i’d made before? Well i’d clearly been missing the point. My fab mum kept a bagful of Sevilles aside in her freezer for me to take back with me after half term. And so when Vivien Lloyd [...]
I know it’s a bit old ladyish, but I LOVE marmalade. I love the sweet and sour tang on my toast of a morning. I’m down to my final jar of last year’s Christmas Marmalade, so I thought I’d make a new batch. I need some for gifts, some to donate to be sold at [...]
A carrier bag of pears arrived in my kitchen recently, donated by my lovely friend Rosie who is lucky enough to have a treeful in her back garden. She warned me they were a bit on the hard side, so a batch of chutney was the order of the day. I’m really stockpiling a huge [...]
Running out of home-made jam is the perfect excuse to think of a new flavour to bubble up in my cauldron. And as a celebration of summer soft fruits I plumped for a mega mix of strawberries, raspberries and cherries. I’ve not made the same type of jam twice since I started my journey into [...]
Making jam has definitely become one of life’s pleasures since I started this blog. I don’t do it all the time, but when I do I REALLY enjoy it. It’s not as technical as you’d think and allows you to feel like a proper old-school domestic goddess. I came across some breathtakingly plump and aromatic [...]
My trio of Christmas preserves is finally complete! The last instalment is a chutney to liven up a plate of cold meats or transform a cheese sarnie into something a little bit special. Cranberries are such a jolly looking fruit, the various shades of red make a stunning little festive display. I’ve not been organised [...]
