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Home & GardenJune 26, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Herbilicious!

By Amanda

it’s all about herbs this week with guest food blogger Jo Orr At this time of year herbs are at their lush best, so I thought I’d share a couple of recipes that put herbs front and centre- a Tabbouleh… Read More

Home & GardenJune 19, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Summer greens

By Jane

We are deep into June now, so the ‘greenness’ of both nature and produce is reaching its acme. From the acid green of a moped of frisee lettuce, to the fresh green of broad beans and peas, all the way… Read More

Home & Garden, UncategorizedJune 12, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Food for a summers day

By Jane

The cucumber is an oft neglected vegetable, tossed thoughtlessly into salads, and not regarded as being up to much taste-wise. Bland is the general consensus. Yet, with the merest love and attention it can be elevated to something rather lovely… Read More

Home & GardenJune 5, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Elderflower season

By Jane

The elder tree can appear somewhat scraggy and nondescript except for one period of the year during which it erupts in a bounty of frothy, heady blossom and makes you glad that you have it in your garden after all.… Read More

Home & GardenMay 29, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Food Tales from Scotland

By Amanda

More from our guest food blogger Jo Orr and this weeks she’s in roaming and foraging in Scotland I have travelled 500 miles north to spend the Half Term school holiday with my parents and varied guests in their rambling,… Read More

Home & GardenMay 22, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Food for indecisive weather

By Amanda

The weather this week has been rather Scottish- sudden, torrential downpours followed by blinding sunshine, succeeded ten minutes later by a violent hail storm, then more sunshine producing a gorgeous watery rainbow, its colours blurring at the edges. Then more… Read More

Home & GardenApril 17, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Spring Tarts!

By Amanda

Once the magnolia and cherries have bloomed, and the candy-striped apple blossoms are peeking through, I know that the first bunches of tender, pencil-thin asparagus are on their way. Their short season (usually just six weeks) and expense lends this… Read More

Food, Uncategorized, We Are ReadingApril 13, 2015

Dinner With Jackson Pollock by Robyn Lea

By Amanda

For any arty chefs out there, this might appeal, as who knew artist Jackson Pollock was an enthusiastic cook? Dinner With Jackson Pollock is a very lovely looking, ring-bound cookery book by luxury book publishers Assouline, which specialises in one-upmanship… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 21, 2015

Weekend Woman: Mary Berry

By Amanda

It’s hardly original I know putting Mary up as our weekend woman, but seeing her on the BBC’s Red Nose Day Bake Off, how witty and funny she was, and then reading this great interview with her in the Observer… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingMay 26, 2014

Top Bananas by Mumsnet

By Amanda

If you’d rather clean the toilet than think about another evening meal, but find the formidable list of ingredients in most cookbooks deters you from trying anything new, Mumsnet’s latest publication might be just what you’ve been looking for. The… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 28, 2013

We Love: Food 52

By Amanda

Last week my half of TWR was celebrating our last autumn half term ever (youngestson’s last year at school) by taking a short holiday in New York. As well as eating ourselves two sizes fatter, I got the chance to… Read More