As an Artisan Producer, good food is my life and my passion. I love playing with recipes both old and new, discovering new tastes and techniques. I find the best and freshest ingredients come from your own garden so I grow as much as is practical. There is always something new to learn, so lets share.

Onion Tart

Onion Tart
I love this onion tart .We spent some time last summer playing with the recipe and we think we now have a great, simple, fairly fast and very tasty recipe. Even picky kids eat it.You can also substitute other veg such as spinach, courgette or mushrooms for the onion .Still fantastic
Our  youngest Athene [...]

Marmalade Granola

Choosing  breakfast cereal for our family is a real pain. One  person won’t eat weetabix and one will only eat it. Two eat porridge but only some days. Cornflakes or rice crispies  soon lose their appeal and I have to make rice crispie buns to use up the  end of the box.  Many mueslis and [...]

Persillade. Winters Pesto.

We were having a  heated discussion on Facebook with a canadian friend over the culinary merits of Putine ( which is basically chips covered in gravy and cheese, surprisingly yum). In defence he put up a link to the wiki page on putine and there I discovered a new ( to us ) culinary joy [...]

“Kale,glorious kale”

There isn’t a lot growing in my garden at the moment . A couple of  of parsley plants, some sprouting broccolli (which isn’t yet sprouting), a few varieties of  oriental salad greens, a bit of swiss chard, and kale, lots of kale.
I thank the garden gods for kale. All through the winter and early spring  [...]