Tag: Party
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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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Spiced Rhubarb Soda
When we moved into our house five years ago, the only thing in the garden that seemed to have been purposefully planted by the previous owners, was a large crown of Victoria rhubarb. It was so well established that we didn’t want to risk moving it, so dug the flower bed around it, and it…
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Wild Garlic Hummus with Spring Crudités
As readers of any of my previous posts on the subject will know, I am more than a little enthusiastic about the Springtime emergence of wild garlic. As April arrives, the nearby woods are lush with its strap-like leaves and distinctive allium scent, and by Mid-May the woodland is dotted with clusters of white, star-shaped flowers,…