About Writer Kit Heathcock - worked and travelled in Italy for many years, is passionate about food and loves being a fulltime mother. Co-creator of A Flower Gallery home of original flower pictures and Food and Family!
Recipe - Lavender Heart Cookies Lavender, its bushy hedges wafting a delicate scent in the winter sunshine, is one of my favourite herbs. It is hardy, smells wonderful, cleanses the air of viruses and repels insects. All these virtues and you can bake with it too! I was going through my recipe books yesterday, looking for somethin... Similar Editorial : Coffee And Your Heart by Adrian Adams. | Source : Homemade Cookies
Recipe - Shepherds Pie Traditional nursery food has made a come back in our family recently. I haven’t bothered making shepherd’s pie (or cottage pie, as it is also known) for ages, as the children just used to eat the potato from the top and leave the mince. Mince in general has been rejected too. If I use the same mince... Similar Editorial : Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe by Sinta Makah. | Source : Pie Recipe
Baking With Jam Jam-making is over for the year, the summer heat has finished off the strawberries, the apricot season went by in the blink of an eye, it’s too hot to think of cooking anything at all until evening cools the air. Even the memory of standing over a simmering pot of jam makes me perspire.
Recipe - Cheese Biscuits Every end of term at my daughters’ kindergarten, finds us baking cheese biscuits for their festival. These are delicious, easy to make, light flaky mouthfuls of crunch, just like cheese straws only more fun, as you can use any shaped cookie cutter you like. We have pigs, bunnies, stars, moons, heart... Similar Editorial : Copycat Recipe For Red Lobster Biscuits by Tony Harrison. | Source : Organic Cheese
Recipe: Kids And Spices Back in the mists of time, once upon a time, we were adventurous cooks and eaters, taking in everything from the spices of the Orient to European starchy comfort food in the course of a day’s eating. Then we were hit by a culinary upheaval in our lives: our children, one by one, arrived.
Recipe - South African Buttermilk Rusks Rusks in South Africa are part of the cultural identity – one of the things that exiles in a foreign land long for. Children are brought up on Rooibos tea (a herbal bush tea) and rusks. These aren’t the pallid soggy affairs that pass for rusks in the UK - Farleys rusks given to teething infants and ... Similar Editorial : South American Coffees by . | Source : Spiked Apple Cider
A Hymn To Baked Potatoes What better on a cold winter’s night, than to come home to a supper of crisp-skinned baked potato, piping hot, a knob of butter soaking into the fluffy centre. Perfect for days when you get home in good time but have a million things to do and cooking supper is last on the list. All you have to do i... Source : Cooking Brussel Sprouts
Recipe - Summer Smoothies The summer sun swelters outside. Inside it is warm, the fruit bowl sits lusciously on the window sill, bursting with seasonal plenty – peaches, mangoes, grapes as well as the year round banana. All of the fruit is at point of perfect ripeness, begging to be eaten right now before it descends into a ... Similar Editorial : Summer recipe by Phoenix012new. | Source : Well Drink
Recipe - Just Desserts, Puddings Galore We are a pudding family. There is something satisfying about the word pudding. It brings connotations of comfort, of tastebud-tantalising things, rich and luscious. Dessert suggests something elegant, delicate, restrained - a sweet mouthful to finish off a meal. Dessert just doesn’t do it for me. Similar Editorial : Christmas Recipes by Amytylor. | Source : Baking A Cake
Strawberry Jamming Again More practical musings – hints and tips on making strawberry jam. Sunshine for the rest of the year
So I’m preparing strawberries for jam, the third evening this week. It is the most productive week of the year as far as our strawberries are concerned. The best are already sold, fres... Similar Editorial : Strawberry Coffee Cake by Donna Monday. | Source : Olive Fruit
Strawberry Jamming Finale So the strawberries are finally slowing down, the end of the season is in sight… and do I feel relief that I will no longer be chained to the kitchen counter, three nights a week, preparing strawberries for jam? Am I sick of the sight of them, turning into one myself, in a word, jaded? Surprisingly ... Similar Editorial : Strawberry Coffee Cake by Donna Monday. | Source : Olive Fruit
Strawberry Jammed Out Latest news from the strawberry jam front – the tide of strawberries is advancing, threatening to engulf me in a wave of strawberries waiting to be processed, taking up whole shelves of the fridge, lurking in corners just when I thought I’d done the last batch. Heaving a sigh of relief as the last p... Similar Editorial : Strawberry Coffee Cake by Donna Monday. | Source : Olive Fruit
Advocating Avocado Pears Avocadoes are back in season – hurrah! All summer I’ve been looking at the exorbitantly priced sad-looking specimens in the shops, refusing to buy, as I know they’ll be disappointing. At the end of summer the price starts dropping, then come bargain bags of ten and you know that the season is back i... Similar Editorial : Avocado Bacon Sandwiches Recipes by Lucille Green. | Source : Pear Photo
Recipes With Rosemary Rosemary is one of my favourite herbs – its clean, spiky scent pervading my kitchen takes me to the South of France on a warm summer’s day. It is the hardiest plant in my herb garden, surviving our driest summers and putting out new growth as soon as the winter rains begin. You can pick from it all ... Similar Editorial : Chicken Recipes by Mario Oreilly. | Source : Chili Soup Recipes
Marmalade Recipe Making marmalade is pure self-indulgence for me. Nobody else in our house likes it, but I love the zesty tang of marmalade on hot buttery toast. Maybe the taste for it is peculiar to the English – peculiar taste buds we must have to like marmite too with its salty bite. Anyway a few times each winte... Similar Editorial : Chicken Recipe by Mikael Rieck. | Source : Citrus Fruits
