Kale, kale everywhere!
Eat your greens! Well, kale to be more precise. My veg bed is bubbling over with greenliness (is that a word?! If not it should be) and the most delicious (and the only one ready more importantly) is the most nutritious of them all, curly kale. Kale is packed full of all sorts of nutrients, namely vitamins B, C, E and K. It is high in the vitamin B folate which gives…
June 2, 2020Aubergine Parmigiana
These beautiful Antigua (oh to be there…) aubergines were in our weekly veg delivery this week. I love them, but unfortunately I can’t seem to get these past the children (yet) in their natural form…the only way is if I cook them and put them in a ‘hide the veg’ pasta sauce all razzed up. I decided I wouldn’t waste these beauties and thought the husband and I would have…
May 19, 2020Post Roast Pie
Hurrah! I shrieked from the rooftops on Friday when I saw that the glorious weather we had been sooo incredibly lucky to be having was potentially going to break on Sunday. And what better day to do it I ask you? Off I went to shop in the chest freezer to dig out a chicken I had stashed in there for this very moment. Not that I haven’t been thoroughly…
May 13, 2020Larder Raider Recipe – Chorizo, Chickpea and Spinach Stew.
This is one of those one-pot wonders that is bursting with smokey, spicy flavours that leaves you always wanting more. Not wanting as in lacking you understand, but just wanting more…like Oliver. It really can be done in one pot, I promise. So for those of you who sometimes struggle with many pots on the go at once, or need a quick post work nourishing supper, this is a keeper…even…
May 6, 2020New My English Country Cottage contributor – Lucy Hoyle Cooks
Lovely Lucy has agreed to help me with the cooking side of this website blog thing. You may well be acquainted with my primadonna La Aga who decides how and whether to cook the food I attempt to create for family and friends. It is definitely La Aga’s fault and not mine. However, Lucy is an actual real life professional with her own catering company “Lucy Hoyle Food”. We were…
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