It’s that time of year when I’m getting ready for the horticultural show in the village. Every year the classes are slightly different but each year tradition tends to win out. And it seems it may not just be our village show, as recent posts over on Belleau Kitchen show. So,if you’ve got a show [...]
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The Friday Five – Preparing for Village Shows
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Baking, Bread, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Honey & Jam, Preserving
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 – Preserving the best
July 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Preserving
One of the things that struck me in France was that there were still lots of preserved things on the shelves (and I’m not talking about Bardot), not just in the jam aisle. Although the jam aisle was definitely crammed with interesting flavours that you don’t necessarily get here. Preserving certainly fits in with the [...]
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