Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
I thought it really too much for anyone’s good diet to enjoy cake at morning tea when baking cakes was the agenda for the day….with the inevitable result of many cakes on hand for afternoon tea! And so the figs presented themselves as a totally scrummy (as...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About, Seasonal Cooking
Anastasia’s recipe, my garden veg. What more could you ask for? Stacey made this at one of our very first Seasonal Cooking Days, which are all about fresh, simple food, straight from the garden. Several years on and I find myself referring back to this...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
A great sense of enjoyment pervaded ‘Cooking the Glenmore Christmas Lunch’ yesterday, with lots of laughter amidst the chopping of veg and washing up. Stand-by fishmongers – I think there might be a few orders for whole salmon coming up! Not to...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
A bundle of elderflowers all tied up in muslin for an exciting experimental recipe! For me, anything to do with popping ingredients into a muslin bag invokes an air of festivity. I generally associate it with pips for marmalade, which in turn makes me think of...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
An afternoon filled with wafting aromas: roses for the kitchen table, philadelphus en route to the dressing table and raspberry jam bubbling away on the cooktop. Richly scented hues of spring indeed….
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
I’m so sorry for lack of posts last week…..it seemed to be rather chaotic…..hopefully I’ll make up for it this week! Friday’s Kitchen Gardening was a lovely day with a terrific group of participants. On the spur of the moment, (as seed...
