Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
There’s been wonderful rhubarb to harvest these last weeks, so I collected a whole wheelbarrow load the other day. I baked several batches with orange juice & spices & now have jars stored to keep us going while the plants go into a little decline...
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
Still basking in the afterglow of last Friday’s Cooking the Glenmore Christmas Lunch Day, it occurs to me you might like to plan ahead for 2012!! The date for a re-run will be Friday 7th December 2012. I imagine it will roll around before we know it, but...
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
What a delightful day was had by all….we harvested the first new potatoes – King Edwards; pottered about the Kitchen Garden collecting herbs and generally cooked up a storm! In the end, the table was laden with Burmese honeysuckle, chilled soup, poached...
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Oh sad, sad, sad time…..the last of the broad bean harvest. Broad beans really are a most obliging plant to grow: First there are the tender new shoots which are a pure delight – the taste of spring in the depths of winter & a...
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
What great colour!! That lovely salad of baby new Nicola potatoes with apple cider vinaigrette & red onions must be coming up very soon – now WHAT spring issue of Vogue Entertaining was that in???!!!! And its time the potatoes flowered!
Sep 17, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
They may be fiddly, but my goodness they’re worth the fuss – how exquisite to think these came from the garden…..and below…..in the pan. A visual feast before the delight of eating them!!
