Well written guest blog post by Liz LeFroy - on finding a new favourite jam flavour.
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Taste notes for Jam… Guest Post, Liz LeFroy
Just chilli-in
How about growing your own chillies in the UK? And then cooking with them? As I am to gardening what Kubla Khan was to crocheting, I simply bought a plant from a supermarket and kept it on the kitchen windowsill. I was amazed at how many small chillis popped up in due course. And they …
Cooking with Georgia O’Keeffe
The artist Georgia O'Keeffe took a keen interest in health foods - believing that what you ate was important to creativity. Delightfully, she lived to be 99, producing brilliant paintings to the end, her mind sharp as a tack. So here are recipes for her wholemeal bread, a health shake, and Green Chillies with garlic, …
What’s for tea?
The dreaded cry goes up around 5 pm in most households, "What's for tea?" If you have very little food in the larder, you can try making some Western Spaghetti.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM PES is the name used by indie animator Adam Pesapane. Animation Magazine Online interviewed him in 2008, here's a couple of questions and answers …
Poetry, noodles and animation
As you know, this blog likes to mix its ingredients of art and life, so putting together poetry, noodles and animation this morning was the work of a moment. Exhibit A - the poem is "Making Mines Frires" by Dominique Ahkong and if you pop over to http://bit.ly/2vm5ZEk you can read the poetic description of the …
Brighter Christmas: decoration tip
In my unofficial role as the person least likely to be mistaken for Martha Stewart.... I can still give some cheap and cheerful life/art tips: throw some mint imperials in a favourite cup and saucer. Plonk on a flat surface. Looks nice and refreshes palate (and breath). If minimalist look is favoured, try in white …
Forager’s delight
This. Today. A reward for doing a week's foodshop so close to Christmas - just before the parking lot turned into an accident waiting to happen (11 am, on the dot - make a note for next year) with too many cars chasing too few parking spaces and pedestrians attempting to walk in front of cars, …
Nora Ephron nearly cooks
Came across a wee gem of a book in local library: Nora Ephron "I feel bad about my neck, and other thoughts on being a woman." (From the writer/director who wrote the screenplay for "When harry met sally" and "You got mail".) This woman is talented, witty, writes in an engaging way and has interesting opinions. She's …
Fud
My ideal cookbook is probably one I'll have to write myself as no one else has - possibly for the very good reason that its title would never fit on the spine: "NoFussAlmostNoWashingUpWorksEveryTimeWithCheapIngredientsScratchAndSniff Cookbook". It would be lavishly illustrated and come supplied with a complimentary bib for drooling. And it would have a different layout …
Recipe for Summer Jam
Put a few blackberries on your scone/toast and smoosh. Smooshing is my technical term for squashing them with your knife. At this time of year, the fruit is so soft that it just implodes and spreads out over the surface. Eat with enjoyment. It will taste more tart than bottled jam, because it doesn't have …
