I’ll let you in on a little secret, even I can’t be bothered with all of the faff involved in baking sometimes. You know those recipes which look & taste beautiful but have loads of steps & processes involved, well, they’re great when you’ve got the time & patience for them but let’s face it, …
The sun is shining (for now), the flowers have bloomed, plants have fruited & Wimbledon has begun… it can only be British summertime! A very welcome season, us Brits truly know how to make the most it. We light our barbeques at any given ray of sunshine, dining al fresco in the garden until the …
Little red jewels everywhere, or at least there are in my garden at the moment. What are they? Wild strawberries. An early summer treat, wild strawberries are much smaller than commercially grown strawberries, but they’re also far sweeter & more delicate, each one packs the essence of a strawberry into a tiny little vessel. In …
Quite possibly one of the most loved of all summer berries has to be strawberries. Us Brits love them! Last year we consumed over 83 thousand tonnes of these fragrant, juicy beauties alone. The British season for strawberries runs from late May right through until early September. I strongly believe in eating seasonally, this makes …
