Today is the last day of my Instagram virtual holiday with a French theme, and is there anything more quintessentially French than the madeleine? These tiny, shell-shaped cakes with their plump little bellies are the perfect accompaniment to a cup of coffee or tea. The inspiration for this recipe was the combination of blackberry and […]
The courgette glut has been coming thick and fast for the past few weeks and we’ve been harvesting more than we really know what to do with from our four courgette plants. They’ve been huge too – more like marrows. Courgettes are one of our allotment staples as they don’t require too much intervention to […]
If you’ve been following along with this blog for a little while now, you probably know that we got our allotment just over a year ago. However, for years before that I’ve been growing what I can in our tiny London gardens in our various flats. One of the things I’ve managed to grow consistently […]
Each time I start writing a new blog post, I’m always tempted to say that the current season is my favourite one, or that it’s all about this ingredient or another. However, if I did that it would soon be very clear that all of the seasons are my favourite, and that within each one […]
You know you’re well into the spring season when the lilacs start to bloom. Shrubs put on huge shows of beautiful flower clusters with an intoxicating floral scent that infuses the air. Like most spring blooms, their show is short-lived and only lasts a couple of weeks, and if you bring the cut flowers into […]