Tag: Spring
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Rhubarb Ramos Gin Fizz
I’ve been intrigued by the Ramos Gin Fizz for some time, but until now have had trouble wrapping my head around the idea of mixing gin with cream. I couldn’t imagine how the balance of flavours and textures would work and worried about bitterness and curdling. However, a few weeks ago I was eating a…
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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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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.…
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Pea & Coconut Soup with Garden Herbs
As we were walking the dogs earlier this week, we noticed that one of the fields near our house- that had seemed completely bare a couple of weeks ago – is now filled with sturdy pea seedlings, curling out of the earth. It’s a familiar sight at this time of year; the area just east…
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Garden Pea & Asparagus Bruschetta
This a quick and easy post for a quick and easy recipe. At this time of year I often notice that cooking becomes a lot more relaxed than in other seasons. There’s an abundance of fresh produce that needs very little attention to coax out its quality – in my experience, a little salt, olive oil and lemon…
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Spiced Rhubarb Gin Fizz
The last time Maurice and I were down in London we visited Mr Fogg’s, a cocktail bar and gin parlour in the West End, themed around Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. As I love a bit of whimsy, I was quite in my element perched on a chaise longue, sipping literary-inspired libations and nibbling quails’ eggs. (And…
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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,…
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Spring Potato Salad with Saffron Aioli
Spring is definitely here! The Hawthorne hedges that line the lanes around our house are budding with May flowers, slender acid-green leaves are shooting from the willows in the garden and our fruit trees are full of soft, trembling blossoms. Perhaps it’s because Easter was so early this year, but the season seems to have…