Ainsley’s Family Recipes

Ainsley Harriott’s Jamaican Ginger Cake with Lemon Icing (and sparkles). This was meant to taste better if wrapped and stored for a day before eating. This was from a tv programme about recipes handed down from one generation to another. Another recipe was – Eccles cakes – made using a saucer to cut a circle […]

Fig and Honey Smoothie

We have a fig tree in our garden and this year many figs on it. Read that figs are good for you. This is a simple recipe for a Smoothie – we left out the yoghurt and salt and just blitzed up six fresh peeled figs, a banana, tablespoon of honey and milk. Sieved but […]

Crispy Kale Seaweed

Vegetable Soup & Bread Rolls

Recipe below uses tomato Passata or original recipe by James Martin uses a can of chopped tomatoes, pasta and lentils. Our version has no lentils or pasta – more a vegetable soup than minestrone. Passata could be made using Mediterranean tomatoes from a shop/market. We used home grown cherry tomatoes. To make Passata, we put […]

Red Cabbage

This is simple ‘hand down’ recipe, you probably need to be brought up on to look forward to eating. Probably tastes best, second time you cook it after storing in fridge or freezer – reheating with some extra butter. Eats best with Knodles and Goulash. Long time since eaten meat but this dish is very […]

boeuf stroganoff

the pancakes yesterday were soft, tasty and traditional and – not made by me im ashamed to say sometime ago went on a course to learn how to cook french food and i can make a reasonable tarte tatin, chocolate profiteroles filled with ice cream – most things on a good day, taste not too […]

Spanakopita

1 teaspoon olive oil4-5 shallots – thinly sliced0.5 kgs spinnach, cooked, drained well with small amount of butter200g feta cheese – crumbledSome Mozerella cheese – sliced2 tablespoons chopped parsley2 tablespoons chopped dillblack pepper12 sheets filo pastry – fresh or defrosted75g butter – melted(chopped almonds) Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and small amount of butter […]

Chocolate Kale Fudge Pops

We found this recipe wondering if you could freeze Kale – and you can From – ‘50 Shades of Kale’ by Dr. Drew Ramsey and Jennifer Iserloh Image courtesy of Ian McSpadden Ingredients: 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon ground […]

Be like Popeye – Cream of Spinnach Soup

Ingredients: 500g Spinnach 50g Butter 1 Onion 2 Carrots 4 sprigs Parsley (Bouquet Garni – Parsley, Bay, Thyme) Salt, Pepper, Nutmeg 850 mls Stock 150 mls Cream Prep time: 40 minutes Discard Spinnach stalks, wash and chop roughly Melt butter, add roughly chopped Onions, Carrots, Spinnach – 5 minutes Add Stock, Parsley, Bouquet Garni […]

Tomato’s

Found an interesting website trying to work out difference between a sultana, currant and a raisin to decide which one to put in a chutney http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-tomato-puree-233959 We have a lot of tomatos and tried to make tomato & apple chutney.. but it didnt go very well, heart wasnt in it – kept tasting as it […]

Kartoffelpuffer

Probably musings about Kartoffelpuffer would only make sense to someone connected to Germany but have wondered for a long time why growng up we knew them as Puffers and why they are better known now as Reibekuchen Reibekuchen, Puffers, Puffercakes, Kartoffelpuffer or the many different names in different part of Germany, are wonderful food to […]

Tomato Ketchup Recipe (combination Mums, Jamie Oliver and Delicious)

Compared recipes for homemade tomato ketchup but wondered if anybody has a recipe they know works well or perhaps have opinion on recipe below. My mums recipe althou very nice is little sweet using 340g sugar for 2 kg tomatoes, 2 onions, 2 cloves garlic and relied on mustard, paprika and cayenne pepper to give […]

Cherry Frangipan Tart

250g Short Crust Pastry 250g Cherrys (stoned and cut in half) 125g Butter 125g Sugar 3 Eggs 340g Ground Almonds Flaked almonds and whole cherrys for decoration Method Set oven to 200 degrees (little less if Fan oven) Line your flan dish with the pastry and chill for 10 minutes Bake blind in […]

Italy Unpacked – Series 1, 2 and 3 Clips and Series 3 Iplayer

Earthy regional Italian recipes by Chef Giorgio while Art Critic Andrew explains history of frescos on their tour around Italy. Episode 3 finishes in Dolomites near Austrian border – beautiful scenary and their meal is trout freshly caught from mountain lake with Italian twist on Knodels. If you are thinking of travelling in Italy and […]

Ice cream and Erdbeer Sauce

Recipe from “Mutters leckerste Saucen’ by Regionalia Verlag GmbH Rheinbach 300g Strawberrys 2 Tablespoons Icing Sugar…(Puderzucker in German) Dash of lemon juice Milled black pepper Wash your strawberrys, dry and remove stalks Cut the strawberrys in half Puree the icing sugar, strawberrys, splash of lemon juice and add black pepper to taste Serve with vanilla […]

Katie’s Rosehip Syrup Recipe and two wet ponies

Rosehips are still on the bushes… and even thou days are getting longer, its dark and gloomy and rosehip syrup with lots of vitamin C will help fight off colds and flu. Around us the bridlepaths are mostly underwater and feel really sad for two old horses out in a boggy field with no shelter […]

Sunday Pattys

Ingredients: Reasonable amount of Curly Kale Couple of lbs of new Potatoes 2 Onions 1 Cooking Apple Mozerella cheese – to taste Milk (for mash) – to taste Butter French Mustard, Salt and Pepper Handfull of Parsley Handfull of Thyme 10 slices of Bread (chopped and wizzed) 1) Make breadcrumbs – chop about 10 slices […]

Honey Beeswax Store – Flickr photos

Honey Beeswax on Flickr

Cookery Books

Sell these books, some in German, Think sweet food, bread and cake is very tasty but struggle with heavy German main dishes. My mum as soon as she got over the border to Germany, looked for nearest supermarkets for all her favorite food – Maltz bier, German Rye bread, Teewurst, Salamis (my father liked), Noodles, […]

Food

Recipes and comfort food for dark winter days from Nigella Lawson