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Celeriac & Apple Soup with a Hazelnut Crumb
Celeriac may look like the brute of the vegetable patch, but this underused root is a complete gem in the kitchen. We love it roasted with thyme, as a silky puree beneath roasted fish and meats, thinly sliced and baked with cream and plenty of rosemary and as a velvety base for all kinds of…
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Winter Fruit & Bitter Leaf Salad
I love cooking in all seasons but I must admit that towards the end of winter I begin to grow tired of the sweet and stodgy comfort foods that define the season. I crave freshness. Fortunately this is when forced chicory and radicchio come into their own and why they are so invaluable in my…
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Kaffir & Clementine Gin Fizz
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a little over January. I know that one should never wish the time away, but there’s something about this month that would test even the truest optimist. Perhaps it’s the rather melancholic sight of spent Christmas trees dropping their needles on the curb side, of unlit lights,…
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The King’s Hot Chocolate
Last weekend we were set for snow – heavy snow – and the husband was positively giddy at the prospect of crunching through newly fallen powder and being kept from the office on Monday morning. His disappointment then, when the forecasted blizzard turned into a half-hearted flurry and then to sleet, was tangible. As the…
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Blackberry & Sage Margarita
Thus far the Autumn has been unusually warm and so it was with real delight that I stepped out yesterday morning to see frost silvering the garden and to feel a definite chill in the air. It’s finally time to light the Aga, bring the log baskets in from the shed and to cosy up…
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Elderflower & Cucumber Margarita
There are few scents that evoke the British summertime as beautifully as fresh elder blossoms. As May ripens into June the hedgerows burst into deeper flower and sweeten the air with their perfume. We have our own rather unruly tree that Maurice keeps trying to convince me to remove, but I love it for its…
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Lemon, Elderflower & Chamomile Posset
May is probably my favourite time of year in the UK. After a usually grey early Spring, the sun finally throws out real warmth, and the world responds with an abundance of fresh green growth. Radishes, peas and broad beans spring up in the vegetable patch, the herbaceous borders seem to fill out over night, and every…
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Spring-Clean Green Juice
Iris is now sixteen weeks old, and my body is beginning to feel familiar again. I have to admit that I had not anticipated the level of sheer physicality I would experience during this time. I have become acutely aware of the needs and rhythms of this tiny body, barely separated from my own, while at…
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A New Chapter
Anyone who follows the blog regularly will know that it’s been very quiet for a while, and anyone who follows us on Instagram will know why. On February 2nd we welcomed our first child into the world – a little girl, called Iris, who is pretty much perfect in every way. For several weeks following the…
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Smoking Bees Knees
The early May bank holiday is set to be glorious. Flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and (by Yorkshire standards at least) it’s hot! I’ve spent the last few days in the garden – potting up tomatoes, herbs and courgettes – and in the evening have been playing around with new seasonal cocktail recipes.…