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A two-quince day
Quince and star anise icecream Sunday morning is allotment time, but I didn’t go this week. I’ve been feeling a bit fractious with the kids, getting upset easily, worrying that all I do is bark...
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GMGs and damson Christmas cake
Christmas cake ingredients, with vodka damsons Last week was the Garden Media Guild Awards, and I tarted myself up (boldly – if I say so myself – in orange) and took myself up London to see if I...
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Success! and green garlic soup
So we did it! Saturday was our first ‘Lia & Juliet’ supper club and we only went and pulled it off. We took an entire two days off work to chop, blanch, braise, bake and crystallise, and to fiddle...
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Gooseberry knickerbocker glory
Ooh… ‘I always have a glut of gooseberries,’ I announced, swaggeringly. ‘We’ll use gooseberries for the supper club.’ Gooseberries are no apricots (still no fruit, nor even flowers), they are not even...
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Dandelion Wine
In early June of this year, just as the dandelions were fading after that first golden flush (that moment when they are so lush you can almost imagine planting them in your border) and were starting to...
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Improvising cake
Honey, yoghurt and apricot cakes. You don’t need the recipe. I’m not great at the off-the-cuff, at riffing, or general spontaneity. When I worked in a job where I had to attend meetings in which...
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Rhubarb jammy dodgers
Rhubarb and vanilla jam jammy dodger . We held our Spring Supper Club a couple of weeks ago (click here if you don’t know what I’m on about). I always like to make a petit four,...
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A bit of a tease…. I sent the menu and dates out for our next supper club to our mailing list late last night with the intention of posting here this morning, but all places have now gone. Here it is...
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Two-day-old fridge berries jam
Drop scones and two-day-old fridge berry jam for breakfast You go up to the allotment in the late afternoon and everything is bursting with juice. The scent of the strawberry patch makes it...
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Petal, Leaf, Seed – a pesto blueprint
. A sunny day with nothing to do but hang out with the kids doesn’t come along often, and so on Sunday my mind turned to picnics. My birthday is in May, and I have a romantic...
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