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Entries Tagged as 'Nigel Slater'

Quick pick for a Friday – Tender is the fruit

January 14th, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Cookbooks, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Healthy eating

I’m looking forward to feeling some sunshine on my trip, which always makes lettuce and a fruit salad so much more appealing than a beef stew and a steamed pudding! So my choice for Friday is Nigel Slater’s latest, Tender: Volume II A Cooks Guide to the Fruit Garden. Bring on the first English strawberries, [...]

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The Friday Five – Bring on the Veggies

May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Healthy eating

Next week is National Vegetarian Week, so I thought it would be good to look at interesting cookbooks that are not about the meat. Even if you’re not a full time veggie, there is a school of thought that says it’s a good thing to have less meat, and therefore you might want some inspiration [...]

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Amazon lead us into temptation…

October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts

I think you might have gathered by now that I rather like my cook books, and the groaning bookshelves would bear testament to that. So I guess I really don’t need an offer from Amazon of 50% off a whole heap of new titles! What to choose? I mean, Nigel Slater was the first cookery [...]

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The Saturday Session – the joys of a horticultural show

September 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Baking, British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie things to do, Fruit & Veg, Kitsch cooking, Preserving, Recipes, Saturday Session

It’s one of those big events in our village today: the annual horticultural show. Oh yes, there are still horticultural and village shows going strong, and there has been competitive pumkin and bean growing going on for months. No tales of sabotage yet but still time for that to surface! As well as veg and [...]

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The Friday Five

July 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Recipes

If as a foodie you’re at all like me, you will have shelves groaning with cookery books, food writing and magazines about food. The food and drink section of any bookshop will be your first stop, where you will lovingly eye up titles. Sound familiar? So I’ve decided to feature 5 books each Friday, about [...]

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