Recipe: Rhubarb, chilli and Thai ginger jam [...]
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Beautiful blood orange curd muffins [...] Pretty salmon pink blood orange curd, perfect for breakfast [...] I think that sloe gin is winter’s answer to summer’s elderflower cordial. A warming winter liqueur, a pretty deep pink purple in colour, with a heavenly fruity, berry plumy taste. It is delicious beyond words, and strangely hard to describe to those unfortunate souls that have never have had the pleasure in drinking it. Sloes [...] [...] There are few culinary endeavours that I enjoy more than making chutneys, jams and jellies. I love going to the market, buying a tray of something in season and then taking it home to preserve. I have had a few disasters, the kiwi & pumpkin chutneys and the sweetcorn relish spring to mind, but by [...] [...] What could be more English than a glass of homemade elderflower cordial drunk in an English garden in the evening of Midsummer’s Day? I picked the elderflowers on Midsummer’s eve and bottled them on Midsummer’s day. Today is Midsummer’s day and for those of us in the Northern hemisphere the longest day of the year, [...] [...] One of my abiding childhood memories is of my mother making jellies, specifically the jelly bag hanging from on an upturned stool on the kitchen worktop with the cooked fruit straining, running and then dripping through. I can well remember watching the drips getting slower and slower and eventually stopping as the mixture strained, and [...] [...] I am a huge fan of homemade jams, jellies and chutneys and I love my weekend afternoons pottering in my kitchen stirring a huge vat of preserve, warming jars, bottling, sealing and making pretty labels. I find the rituals of preserving calming and satisfying, therapeutic and meditative, after a tough week at work I decide [...] [...] After my trip to the market and excess of peppers the other day I made up this chutney recipe, the mix of red ingredients makes a vibrant coloured chutney, packed with flavour, roasting the peppers brings their flavour out and adds even more depth of colour. See Chutney Basics Ingredients (makes 4 medium jars) 2lb [...] [...] I am going to be busy tomorrow. I went to the North End Road market today, looking for fruit to either jam or make chutney. There was lots and lots of citrus fruit so time for another batch of marmalade, this time using a mix of grapefruit, lemon, and lime. And I bought two huge [...] [...] |
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