This week I am again singing the praises of the tomato -- this time in its simplest form, as a clear golden nectar obtained through the straightforward process of chopping a quantity of excellent summer specimens and letting their juices drip slowly … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
Roasted tomato soup with coconut milk
This soup is so good it deserves the limelight on its own. It is incredibly healthy, and the most delicious spicy tomato soup I know. Generous in ginger, and creamy with coconut milk (making it dairy-free), it provides all the satisfaction of a … [Read more...]
Those summertime blues
When I arrived in Britain in 1987, it was impossible to find blueberries here. Now they are available year round thanks to their recent super food status, and are even grown here, their season peaking in July and August when harvests from the … [Read more...]
Peas in the pod
Garden peas, picked fresh at that perfect petit pois stage of juicy, crisp sweetness, are something to experience at least once in a lifetime – and how good it would be to count on them once a year. Most fresh peas we buy with hope in the season are … [Read more...]
Elderflowers: champagne, cordial and a cake
There’s just time to make one more batch of elderflower cordial and champagne, with their inimitable fragrance of English summer – floral, yet also a little wild and very slightly musty. Nothing drinkable is more evocative of our hedgerows and … [Read more...]